Art Botero haraakterizuetsya plump his characters, which symbolize the joy of the flesh. Deformation, which Botero puts the bodies of their characters, their faces and objects in his paintings, creates a strange harmony. Botero - instantly recognizable artist with style, peculiar to him alone. When asked why he portrays fat people, he says: "Fat? No, they just voluminous, magical properties, the volume - this is so sensual! ".
Recurrent themes in the work of Botero - plitika, religion, bullfights, still lifes, brothels with prostitutes. The main thing for him - the beauty and love: the artist himself against Siqueiros, in whose canvases feel hatred. Even in his criticism of the Colombian regime (omnipresence of religion and militarism), the artist does not convicts, but is rather sad irony: "I always thought that art can escape the cruelty of life, to create a haven where there is beauty and tranquility. However, my country is in such a tragic situation that this tragedy has penetrated into my work ... I do not think that my pictures will change anything in the dramatic reality of Colombia, but I felt a moral need to at least leave a certificate of insanity and barbarism that have invaded my country. "
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