Fernando Botero Angulo, pittore, scultore e disegnatore, noto per il suo peculiare stile figurativo fatto di volumi dilatati all’eccesso e di forme insolite, è nato a Medellín, in Colombia, martedì 19 aprile 1932
✿ “Un artista è attratto da certi tipi di forme senza saperne il motivo. Prima adotto una posizione per istinto, e solo in un secondo tempo cerco di razionalizzarla o anche di giustificarla.”
✿ “L’arte è una tregua spirituale e immateriale dalle difficoltà della vita.”
✾ “An artist is attracted to certain kinds of forms without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively, only later you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.”
✾ “Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life”
❀ “Un artiste est attiré par certains types de formes sans savoir pourquoi. D’abord j’adopte une position par instinct, et plus tard j’essaye de la rationaliser ou même de la justifier.”
❀ “L’art est spirituel, un répit immatériel aux difficultés de la vie.”
✽ “Un artista se siente atraído por ciertos tipos de formas sin saber por qué. Adoptas una posición intuitivamente; solo después intentas racionalizarlo o incluso justificarla”
✽ “El arte es espiritual, un respiro inmaterial de las dificultades de la vida.”
Nell’immagine: Porta del Paradiso di Fernando Botero nella Chiesa della Misericordia a Pietrasanta (Lucca)
Foto: Davide Papalini / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Mi ha sempre dato l’idea di genialità, con quelle forme così morbide e tondeggianti e lontane dai canoni tradizionali. O forse ha fatto sentire a proprio agio anche i diversamente snelli come me!
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Anche a me sono sempre piaciute le sue morbide curve 😊
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Ci sono parecchi spunti, il libro mi incuriosisce…🧐😍
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😘🌸😘
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” L’art est spirituel, un répit immatériel aux difficultés de la vie. ”
C’est très bien dit.
Bonne journée, Luisa.
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Bonne journée à toi!!!
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Very appropriate at this time. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart
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Quanto mi piace il Botero!
Buona serata.
Quarc
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Anch’io lo trovo fantastico!
Buona serata, Quarc
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I visited the Museo Botero on a trip to Bogota a few years ago. It is a lovely museum. Botero’s work is very impressive. I can’t explain why I like his style. Anyway, thanks for sharing this, and Happy Birthday Fernando!
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I can’t say why I like his works so much either.
Perhaps it is the roundedness, of the shapes
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Ho visto quel dipinto in quella chiesa, non me l’aspettavo ed è stata una bellissima sorpresa, anche curioso trovare un Botero (anzi due se non ricordo male) in una chiesa…
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Anche per me è stata una fantastica sorpresa…
Buona serata
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Buon compleanno 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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🌹💙🌹
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Unico ! 😊
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Siiiii
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I’ve never been sure I liked Botero’s work or not. Last year we went to his museum in Bogotá. Splendid. He also donated many of his personal collection of other painters, from Picasso to Léger to Rouault. He has good taste in art. So I decided I like him.
An additional note: his work, like García Marquez os so profoundly influenced by Colombia, that you need to know about the country to fully appreciate it…
Buona sera Luisa.
A bientôt
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I’ve always liked him. The roundness of his shapes, their lack of edges, give a sense of tenderness, and his sculptures seem made to be caressed
Have a nice weekend
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Anche tu. 🙏🏻💕
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🙏❤🌹
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