Larger Than Life
April 5, 2010
Colombian artist Fernando Botero is back at the Nassau County Museum of Art, where more than 70 of his sketches, drawings and paintings were exhibited five years ago. The museum is now showing a small but considerable collection of figure paintings, drawings and monumental sculptures one of the sculptures, enlivens the plaza fronting the museum.
Botero, is perhaps the most famous living Latin American artist, his painting style characterized by stout, wildly magnified objects and figures. Art is twist for Mr. Botero, the artist indulging in a frequently comic disregard for natural proportions.
Botero is basically a painter, though in the 1970s he turned to sculpture. This was a logical step in Mr. Botero’s career, for his figures tend to create the fantasy of three-dimensionality on canvas. In general, his sculptures have the same overfed characteristics as his painted figures, but are much bigger in scale, sometimes exceeding 10 feet in height and weighing over a ton.
In painting or sculpture, the artist focuses mainly on everyday life, particularly Colombian society his preferred subjects include food, music and religion. But he is also deeply interested in art history, Often appropriating and deforming figures from famous paintings. This has led some critics to compare his extravagant forms to caricatures, even satires, which they are sometimes.
Labels: caricatures, Fernando Botero, Nassau Coutnty Museum, Sculpture
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