Fernando Botero Oil Painting | Hand-painted Fernando Botero Paintings Art Reproduction canvas SALE

Fernando Botero Angulo (born April 19, 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists" early on. He came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. Working most of the year in Paris, in the last three decades he has achieved international recognition for his oil paintings, drawings and sculpture, with exhibitions across the world. His art is collected by major museums, corporations and private collectors.

Considered Latin America's most famous and most beloved artist, Fernando Botero is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman who is renowned for his extravagantly rounded, robust forms that are recognizable around the world. Fernando Botero oil painting is both a masterful storyteller and a critic, whose work is often laden with biting satirical and political commentary. Botero challenges the dimensions of our hearts & our minds with his provocative artwork, and celebrates his roots as a man from Colombia.

Fernando Botero Paintings includes still-lifes and landscapes, but he tends to primarily focus on situational portraiture. Botero oil painting and sculptures are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or "fat" figures, as he once referred to them. Fernando Botero explains his use of these "large people", as they are often called by critics, or obese figures and forms thus: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."