Botero

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B0TER0 IS THE best known and most highly regarded Latin American artist at work today. His entirely originál style of painting bears correspondences to the school of Latin American writers headed by Garcia Marquez. For him the wildly imaginative is commonplace and is rendered as faithfully as one would an everyday landscape. His work is rooted in the fertile quasi-magical soil of his native Columbia. Botero's world is an extraordinary place. His inflated figures are whimsical yet full of sorrow as they peer out on the improbabilities of the world around them, and his apparent naivete disguises penetrating cultural and political analysis. Intense and evocative, Botero's powerful work takes hold of the viewer and transforms commonly held notions about art and perception. Marcel Paquet's penetrating study reveals hitherto unexplored facets of Botero's work. He remarks: "The painter is not someone who simply looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal... Tovább

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B0TER0 IS THE best known and most highly regarded Latin American artist at work today. His entirely originál style of painting bears correspondences to the school of Latin American writers headed by Garcia Marquez. For him the wildly imaginative is commonplace and is rendered as faithfully as one would an everyday landscape. His work is rooted in the fertile quasi-magical soil of his native Columbia. Botero's world is an extraordinary place. His inflated figures are whimsical yet full of sorrow as they peer out on the improbabilities of the world around them, and his apparent naivete disguises penetrating cultural and political analysis. Intense and evocative, Botero's powerful work takes hold of the viewer and transforms commonly held notions about art and perception. Marcel Paquet's penetrating study reveals hitherto unexplored facets of Botero's work. He remarks: "The painter is not someone who simply looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible." But the painter's quest then becomes a search for the invisible, that hidden quotient that supports the phenomenal. Botero's desire for solidity, his perception of sensuality in form, lead to an "exaggeration of the essential" and a full awareness of pictorial problems. Through Paquet's discussion of these and other significant aspects of the artist's work, the reader approaches not only finished paintings, but the creative process itself. With Botero as subject, this is an endlessly fascinating enterprise. Vissza