Fernando Botero
Landscape, 2004
Oil on canvas
74.8 x 60.8 cm
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When Botero began his career as a painter, at the early age of 16, in 1948, the conception of art at the time was the one that Colombia assimilated from Mexican muralism: a painting that exalted the land and its landscape, and that vindicated the man who worked it, the peasant, the miner or the laborer.
This landscape presents a beautiful panoramic view of a Colombian town among the mountains, one of those from the region of Antioquia that Botero frequented in his youth. But also, it shows a glimpse of that humanist facet learned from muralism and Colombian painters of the mid-twentieth century. In the foreground a peasant cultivates the land, and Botero connects the landscape and the city through him.
This landscape presents a beautiful panoramic view of a Colombian town among the mountains, one of those from the region of Antioquia that Botero frequented in his youth. But also, it shows a glimpse of that humanist facet learned from muralism and Colombian painters of the mid-twentieth century. In the foreground a peasant cultivates the land, and Botero connects the landscape and the city through him.