Fernando Botero

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Biography

Colombian painter, sculptor, and illustrator, born 1932

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • Colombia
  • Nationality
  • Colombian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 19 April 1932
  • Place of birth
  • Medellín
  • Children
  • Fernando Botero Zea
  • Spouses
  • Gloria Zea·Sophia Vari
  • Education
  • Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
  • Knows language
  • Spanish language
  • Member of
  • Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste

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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life. .

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