Fernando Botero
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Many people tend to underestimate the importance of still life’s. Botero came to this subject when he began to experiment around the plenitude of form. It was from it that he found the first glimpses of what would be his style. With works like this Grapes Botero delves into the experimental potential that still life’s allow, with its variety of colors and infinite possibilities of composition from a small number of objects.
When Botero is asked why he paints a topic that so many others have worked on, he answers: "You can take the same theme and create a totally different picture.. For example, all artists have painted fruit at some point, but if one creates a fruit it will be different. That is originality".
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Edward J. Sullivan, Botero, Switzerland, 2000, pg 250 (Illustrated).pdf