In 2008, the exhibition "The Baroque World of" this artist was held at several American museums and marked the first major US retrospective of his work in 30 years.
In 2008, the exhibition "The Baroque World of" this artist was held at several American museums and marked the first major US retrospective of his work in 30 years. That exhibition credited the development of this artist's style to an early still life of a mandolin with an extremely small central hole. His public sculptures include a five-ton bronze nude in front of London's Liverpool Street Station called Broadgate Venus. After reading a Seymour Hersh article in The New Yorker, he was inspired to paint a 56-piece series which includes several scenes of dogs snarling and (*) attacking blindfolded men. A giant man with an unbuttoned white shirt, standing on rooftops, is riddled with a stream of bullets in his painting Death of Pablo Escobar. He reinterpreted Luncheon on the Grass with a naked man and clothed woman, and donated his paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib to the Berkeley Museum of Art. For 10 points, name this Colombian painter known for his fat, inflated subjects, such as in his parody of the Mona Lisa.
In 2008, the exhibition "The Baroque World of" this artist was held at several American museums and marked the first major US retrospective of his work in 30 years.
Fernando Botero Angulo