Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. I could argue that Fernando Botero is our most renowned artist. This, of course, depends on your definition of artist. However, as a painter and sculptor, no Colombian man has made a name for himself in the world of international art quite like Botero. His voluptuous characters and objects became our postcards, your tourist photos,
