Botero

<p><strong>Fernando Botero</strong> (1932–2023) was an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwide with a <strong>unique,</strong> <strong>fleshy, overblown approach to the human body</strong>. Through these corpulent creations, Botero became one of the most recognized artists from Latin America, his <strong>artworks displayed in prominent places around the globe</strong>, including Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.<br /><br /> This TASCHEN Basic Art edition offers an essential introduction to this<strong> leading artist of figures in contemporary art</strong>. Tracing Botero’s oeuvre from his earliest caricatures of animals through to late large-scale bronze sculptures, the book examines the artist’s diverse array of influences, from Paolo Uccello to Abstract Expressionism, and celebrates the <strong>wit, irony, insight, and critical acumen </strong>that round out his compositions, however absurd the proportions.</p>