Fernando Botero

Musicians In The Carnaval, 2016
Graphite on Paper, 41 x 31 cm

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About the artwork

In this work, Botero depicts a moment of action in Columbia's Barranquilla's Carnival, a key folkloric celebration of his homeland's cultural identity. The artist's feelings of nostalgia are presented through the black and white image, where the musicians appear to be frozen in this monochromatic space Botero creates. With a drummer in mid-step and a masked guitarist in mid-strum, both figures are enigmatic in expression and posture. With his signature style of orbicular anatomy, Botero successfully suggests smooth movement in rigid and uncomfortable forms, consequently managing to present his otherwise still figures as lively, and merely in a state of pause, waiting for their cue to play at the Carnaval once more.



About the artist

Born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia, Fernando Botero is an artistic living legend of our times. A prolific artist and creator of the signature style ‘Boterismo’, the artist’s rounded musings have made him a global figure in the contemporary art world, and the artistic ambassador of Colombian pursuit. Rounded from convention, distinctive in spite of the commonplace, and tied to Colombian history and heritage - his curvaceous forms have reached monumental heights, and are collected by major museums, corporations and private collectors all over the world, including the United States, Korea, and Mexico City, to name a few.

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