Fernando Botero
Still Life with Pineapple, 1983
Oil on canvas
110 x 163 cm
Copyright The Artist
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As Picasso at the time of experimentation that produced cubism, Botero owes the Still Life the encounter with his style. In numerous occasions Master Botero has stated that it was in the course of painting a Still Life with Mandolin in 1956 that he discovered how to expand volume in canvas and thus convey the sense of exuberance and voluptuousness he wanted his art to have.
This huge fruit Still Life is part of that process in which Botero has reinforced and reaffirmed his obsession with volume. For Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Latin American Art at the University of New York, Botero’s Still lifes produce "a sensation that the objects present there are the distillations of all objects of their kind and that they will last forever. They affirm their being and their essence in a direct, inevitable and powerful way".
This huge fruit Still Life is part of that process in which Botero has reinforced and reaffirmed his obsession with volume. For Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Latin American Art at the University of New York, Botero’s Still lifes produce "a sensation that the objects present there are the distillations of all objects of their kind and that they will last forever. They affirm their being and their essence in a direct, inevitable and powerful way".