Renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero, celebrated for his iconic style featuring rotund figures used to convey political critique and satire, has died at the age of 91. The news of his death ...

The Colombian artist Fernando Botero at his studio in ... since Abstract Expressionism was then the rage, and Mr. Botero’s sketchy portrait of a chubby-cheeked child seemed out of place.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Fernando Botero ... about to bite the head of a woman posing for a family portrait. Later in his career, Botero turned to darker subjects, like drug violence in Colombia.

it was dethroned by another portrait painting, one that depicts the pope in a less flattering light. Pope Leo X (after Raphael), the work of Colombian artist Fernando Botero, has little in common ...

But I don’t recall a single instance where any of our painting professors asked us to look at the work of Fernando Botero ... that became oppressively cute, self-contradicting and impossible ...

Colobmian artist Fernando Botero poses for a portrait with one of his sculptures in New York City on October 22, 1990. Botero’s fame and popularity achieved new heights in the 1990s when his ...

Fernando Botero ... pomposity and greed. Mr. Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters ...

“Taller de Costura,” painted in 2000 by Fernando Botero.Credit ... Moreover, in previous centuries almost every painting was a portrait, or a religious scene, or a landscape or a still ...