Fernando Botero Books

The book showcases over 140 oil paintings and 35 drawings by Fernando Botero, centered on his enduring fascination with bullfighting. It captures the vibrant colors, dynamic movements, and the complex emotions associated with tauromaquia, reflecting themes of beauty, violence, bravery, and fear. Botero's lifelong passion for the spectacle of the bullring is evident throughout his six-decade career, making this collection a stunning tribute to his artistic interpretation of this dramatic subject.

This new and spectacular series of more than 180 paintings, all of them chosen by Fernando Botero himself, and 50 of which have never been published before, reveal the essence of the feminine in his work. Four drawings on acetate inserts that Botero created exclusively for this book and an essay on the work of Botero written by the famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes complements this impressive survey of Botero's work. Esta nueva selecció n de las pinturas de Fernando Botero, es una nueva y espectacular serie de má s de 180 pinturas, 50 de ellas hasta ahora iné ditas y escogidas por el propio artista, revela la esencia femenina de su trabajo. La impresionante selecció n se ve complementada con cuatro dibujos en insertos de acetato, preparados exclusivamente por Botero para esta edició n, y un ensayo sobre la obra boteriana, escrito por el escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes.

The world was shocked in 2003 by the revelation that U.S. guards had mistreated Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. In response, the renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero created a series of riveting paintings and drawings that constitute an acerbic condemnation of man's inhumanity to man. The 73-year-old artist, drawing on his knowledge of Renaissance art, has produced a body of works that is timely yet timeless, a vision of hell on earth belonging to a noble tradition of artistic statements against war and violence that includes Goya's Disasters of War and Picasso's Guernica, the works of the Mexican muralists, and Botero's own 1990s paintings responding to drug violence in Colombia.