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South American painter who paints overweight people

Not too long ago I have seen some paintings by a south American painter, they were beautiful, and I would love seeing more of his work. I have written his name somewhere but I do not remember where did I put the note or where I have seen his work in the first place . In all his work's all the characters are very fat (male, female, even canine!) but not sloppy, I remember that a character head is huge but the face is rather small.

By the clothes the characters are wearing I would say he worked around the fifties.


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Maybe it's Fernando Botero  from Colombia,  he makes paintings and sculptures with overweight charachters.

Here are two links showing is works.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero
 

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/botero_fernando.html 



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I'd agree with brunurb, the artist you're thinking of is almost certainly Fernando Botero. Born in 1932, and very much still a practising artist, he recently completed a cycle of works based on the incidents that took place at Abu Ghraib.

See this link for details:

Common Dreams News Center: Colombian Artist Depicts Abu Ghraib Abuse

Taschen do a book on him in their Basic Art series - should be obtainable, and affordable, wherever you are.


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