Bullfight

Fernando Botero, best known as "Maestro", is one of the most famous living artists in the world today. In Bullfight Botero focuses on the arena of man vs. animal in his study of Latin American culture today; the result is a beautiful meditation on one of the most dramatic sports on earth. Bullfight: Paintings and Works on Paper is Glitterati's second collection of works by world-renowned Colombian artist Fernando Botero. Featuring more than 140 oils paintings and 35 drawings, this book is a comprehensive look at another of the artist's most iconic subjects. In his youth, Botero developed a passion for bullfighting that has remained with him throughout his illustrious, six-decade career. The artist was profoundly influenced by the spectacle of the bullring - the vivid colours, the dynamic movement, the beauty and violence, bravery and fear. In Botero's signature style, the figures of the bullfight appear inflated and voluptuous, a grandiose exploration of scale, space, and volume. Matadors and picadors, horses and bulls, spirited crowds and striking portraits - all are exaggerated and exalted by the hand of the artist. As Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald writes, "His task is not to reproduce reality as it appears before the naked eye but rather to reinvent or reconstruct it according to his personal experience and accumulated feelings. In this sense there is no painter more truly Colombian than Botero. And yet, the more genuinely local his art is, the more universal it becomes." Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is the most famous living artist of our time,whose distinctive figures are instantly recognisable. His work is internationally praised and has been spotlighted by The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, and BBC Newsnight as well as by Sotheby's in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Guggenheim in Bilbao and New York, amongst others. At the start of his career, the Colombian artist studied at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid before travelling to Paris and Florence to expand upon his understanding of fine art. In 1958, he gained widespread recognition for his first prize piece at the Salon de Artistas Colombianos. The author of Circus: Paintings and Works on Paper (Glitterati Incorporated, 2013), Botero continues to be an active member of the art community and works primarily in Monte Carlo and Italy. Curtis Bill Pepper (b. 1917) is an American author and journalist. He has worked for The New York Times, Newsweek, the United Press International, and CBS. Pepper is the author of seven books, the latest of which is a biographical novel of Leonardo da Vinci. He also contributed an essay to Circus: Paintings and Works on Paper by Fernando Botero (Glitterati Incorporated, 2013). Pepper divides his time between homes in Umbria, Italy and New York City with his wife, the sculptor, Beverly Pepper. Also available: Circus: Paintings and Drawings ISBN 9780988174511