The Baroque World of Fernando Botero – closing tomorrow

Oklahoma City Museum Of Art

The Baroque World of Fernando Botero

Closing 2 December 2007

This retrospective exhibition includes nearly 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures drawn from Fernando Botero’s personal collection. Selected by Dr. John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, and presented in eight sections, these works reveal the influence of Botero’s Colombian background on his work. Themes of religion and violence, mysterious still lifes, larger-than-life sculptures, and tributes to the master artists he most admired offer a comprehensive look at Botero’s extensive oeuvre. His controversial, yet unique, style of inflated proportions creates a visually stimulating world that once seen can be recognized from a distance, and the name “Botero” is gradually making its way into the adjective canon as a reference to anything oversized.

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Espaces Arts & Objets Swiss Art Gallery

~ by Stampfli & Turci on December 1, 2007.