Object Record
| Artist |
Botero, Fernando |
| Title | Sailor Boy |
| Date | 1969 |
| Medium | Oil on Canvas |
| Culture | Colombian |
| School | Magic Realism |
| Catalog Number | 1976.301 |
| Collection | Modern Latin American Art |
| Object Name | Painting |
| Credit line | Gift of the Heller Foundation, Washington D.C., in memory of Lawrence J. Heller |
| Didactic Information |
Colombian artist Fernando Botero is known for his paintings and sculptures of rotund prostitutes, politicians, military generals, bishops, priests, animals, and wealthy businessmen and their families. In his paintings, he pays homage to noted masterworks from art history by distorting historic compositions with his signature inflated figures. Exaggerated and sensuous, his figures are humorous characters in satires of what he sees as the eroticism, vanity, and greed inherent in contemporary ----- El artista colombiano Fernando Botero es conocido por sus pinturas y esculturas de rollizas obras de prostitutas, políticos, generales militares, obispos, sacerdotes, animales y empresarios ricos y sus familias. En sus pinturas, él rinde homenaje a las obras maestras conocidas de la historia del arte, distorsionando las composiciones históricas con su toque personal de figuras gordas. Exageradas y sensuales, sus figuras son personajes humorísticos en sátiras de lo que él ve como el erotismo, la vanidad y la avaricia inherentes a la actualidad. (October 2017) |