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09-06-2007, 06:37 PM
Botero exhibit to open
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Furl Colombian artist Fernando Botero's "The First Lady" (1989, oil on canvas) comments on the pretentious affectation of presidents and first ladies.
Generously round, plump, curvy, oblong, squatty.
To look at the world of Columbian artist Fernando Botero, you would think the world was squished into these stout, podgy, fleshy images of men, women and even tubby guitars and vases, all weighing down the world.
But there is more behind his stylized paintings of burly people and things.
Botero speaks through his art of the pretentious affectation of presidents and first ladies (like in the work above, called "The First Lady"). Beyond his satirization of political figures, he comments on the misery of contemporary life in Latin America.
See for yourself in an exhibit of his work, "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero," which opens Thursday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The retrospective exhibition of the renowned Columbian artist has been assembled over the last 50 years and has been organized and circulated by Art Services International in Alexandria, Va. The exhibition's 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings were selected by Dr. John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
Fernando Botero (born in 1932) is a painter, sculptor and draftsman who depicts the comedy of human life through his baroque-inspired works that are tied to his native Colombia - though he has spent most of his years as an artist away from his homeland.
He grew up Medellin, near the Andes mountains, where the Spanish colonial baroque style there influenced his art. In his later years, he studied European art extensively. He melded those European influences with his own Colombian influences to define his style.
This exhibit will be presented in eight sections in various themes and will include favorite works that Botero was unable to part with, as well as pieces reacquired years after they left his possession. Many have never before been exhibited in public.
Admission to the exhibit is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and students, and free for children 5 and younger and for museum members. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Thursdays, and noon-5 p.m. Sundays
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Furl Colombian artist Fernando Botero's "The First Lady" (1989, oil on canvas) comments on the pretentious affectation of presidents and first ladies.
Generously round, plump, curvy, oblong, squatty.
To look at the world of Columbian artist Fernando Botero, you would think the world was squished into these stout, podgy, fleshy images of men, women and even tubby guitars and vases, all weighing down the world.
But there is more behind his stylized paintings of burly people and things.
Botero speaks through his art of the pretentious affectation of presidents and first ladies (like in the work above, called "The First Lady"). Beyond his satirization of political figures, he comments on the misery of contemporary life in Latin America.
See for yourself in an exhibit of his work, "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero," which opens Thursday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The retrospective exhibition of the renowned Columbian artist has been assembled over the last 50 years and has been organized and circulated by Art Services International in Alexandria, Va. The exhibition's 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings were selected by Dr. John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
Fernando Botero (born in 1932) is a painter, sculptor and draftsman who depicts the comedy of human life through his baroque-inspired works that are tied to his native Colombia - though he has spent most of his years as an artist away from his homeland.
He grew up Medellin, near the Andes mountains, where the Spanish colonial baroque style there influenced his art. In his later years, he studied European art extensively. He melded those European influences with his own Colombian influences to define his style.
This exhibit will be presented in eight sections in various themes and will include favorite works that Botero was unable to part with, as well as pieces reacquired years after they left his possession. Many have never before been exhibited in public.
Admission to the exhibit is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and students, and free for children 5 and younger and for museum members. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Thursdays, and noon-5 p.m. Sundays