Botero: Works 1994-2007 - Couverture rigide

Jones, Erica; Chiappini, Rudy

 
9788861302952: Botero: Works 1994-2007

Synopsis

Botero Botero is one of the most popular artists alive today and is exhibited in countless institutions throughout the world. He gained international fame painting corpulent and comical figures who embody the sometimes whimsical tragedy of life. The dilation of his subjects gives them abstract, unreal, and grotesque dimensions that are studies in beauty and terror. Botero imbues his monumental figures with an overabundant sensuality that reveals a gluttony of human truth--from torture to greed, pleasure to despair, absurdity, impassivity, and more. Botero had his first solo exhibit at the early age of nineteen and, by twenty, had been awarded second prize at the Na...

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Biographie de l'auteur

Rudy Chiappini, is Director of the Museum of the City of Lugano, Switzerland.

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