Fernando Botero Angulowas Biography
Fernando Botero Angulowas born in Medillin, Columbia on April 19, 1932. His father was a travelling salesman and died when he was four. Throughout his early life Botero lived remotely, detached from the museums and myriad of cultures ever present in the cities. Therefore it is little wonder this artist describes himself as "the most Colombian of Colombian artists". He attended a Jesuit school and then at age of twelve his uncle also arranged for him to attend Bullfighting school. Botero studied to be a Matador for two years and subsequently many of his early oil paintings and illustrations were centred upon the Bull Ring.
It seems while Botero may not have been destined to be a Matador, he was certainly destined to be a recognised artist: By the age of sixteen his first illustration was published in the Sunday edition of the El Columbian. This gave the young Botero enough money to pay for his tuition fees at the Liceo de Marinilla de Antioquia High School – In this same year he would also display his work publically for the first time in a group exhibition for local artists. For the next two years he worked as set designer until relocating in the Columbian capital of Bogotá.
In Bogotá Botero quickly associated himself with the Colombian Avant-garde who perpetually surrounded the now, somewhat famous Café 'Automática'. Within five months of arriving in the capital Botero had a one man show at the Galería Leo Matiz. A year later, in 1952 he joined a group of artists who left for Barcelona, Spain. However, Botero’s visit was brief and he left shortly afterward to move on to the largest city in Spain – Madrid. Here he studied oil painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando– This is the Royal Academy of Fine Arts which is located in the centre of Madrid. The academy was first established for academic use around 1764 and remains the headquarters for the Madrid Academy of Art today. Picasso and Dali studied here and the great Francisco de Goya was once among the directors of the academy.
In1952 Botero returned to the Columbian capital to present his own personal and private one man exhibition at the Leo Matiz Gallery. In 1953 he left for Paris where he dedicated his time to studying Art Works in the Louvre. From there he moved on to spend two years in Florence studying art history and the oil paintings of Italy’s most famous Renaissance artists. However, upon his return the oil paintings from this study period were exhibited in Bogotá: And they did not receive a good response. The same year he married Gloria Zea and they both left for Mexico: It was 1956 and this change of scenery and status would mark when and where Botero began to truly discover his own artistic style.
Botero’s style is highly distinctive, abstract and includes a great deal of still life and landscapes studies: Although portraits are this artist’s primary focus. Famous for his Botero “fat figures” - as the artist himself more tends to describe them. Botero’s choice of subject is by no means singular. Even so, there has been much intrigue from the critics as to why he likes to study “large figures”. His response is honest and logical – Wholly artistic and true to his instincts: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it”.
The oil paintings of Botero are fundamentally abstract: He chooses color and depicts proportions of form intuitively. In 1958 Botero was awarded the first prize from the Salón de Artistas Colombianos: A most important national cultural event that is held annually. The first exhibition of the official Salón de Artistas Colombianos was held in 1931 at the Fine Arts Pavillion situated in Bogotá’s Independence Park: After receiving this award Botero became professor for painting at the Bogotá Art Academy – From then on the popularity of his oil paintings would escalate consistently. In 1960 Botero separated from his wife and relocated to New York. The same year he won the Guggenheim National Prize for Colombia.
In 1973 he moved to Paris: In 1833 he spent two years completing the Bullfight and Matador oil paintings that were exhibited in New York’s Malborough Gallery in 1985. . Gradually, surely and ultimately Fernando Botero Angulobecame the most significant new generation artist in Columbia. His Abu Ghraib collection that included more that one hundred and eighty sketches and oil paintings gained great acclaim when it opened in 2005. Twenty of his Circus Collection oil paintings and watercolours were produced in 2008: To which Botero commented: "After all this, I always return to the simplest things: Still life." Today Botero lives and works in Paris and New York.
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