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Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people,
animals and elements of the natural world, and are exhibited in major cities worldwide.
Born in Medellín-Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero attended a matador school for several years
in his youth, and then left the bull ring , to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time
in a 1948, when he was 16 years old. had his first one-man show two years later in Bogota.
Botero's work in these early years was inspired by pre-Colombian and Spanish colonial art and the
political murals of Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Also influential were the works of his artistic idols
at the time, Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez.
After reaching an international audience with his art, in 1973, Botero moved to Paris, where he
began creating sculptures. As his sculpture developed, by the 1990s, outdoor exhibitions of huge
bronze figures were staged around the world to great success.
In 2004, Botero turned to the overtly political, exhibiting a series of drawings and paintings
focusing on the violence in Colombia stemming from drug cartel activities.
In 2005, he unveiled his "Abu Ghraib" series, based on reports of American military forces abusing
prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War. The series received considerable attention
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