Botero
Author(s): Marianne Hanstein
With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero (b.1932) began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at a time when his contemporaries were fervently rejecting figurative work in favor of abstraction. More recently he has expanded into sculpture, creating delightful large-scale bronze works portraying the same sorts of voluminous figures he so loved to paint. Like the writings of Gabriel Garc
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Benedikt Taschen Verlag
- : Benedikt Taschen Verlag
- : 0.363
- : 30 October 2003
- : 230mm X 185mm X 8mm
- : Germany
- : books
Special Fields
- : Marianne Hanstein
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 759.9861
- : 96
- : Illustrations (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.)