(Picnic 1998, by Fernando Botero)
Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian painter and sculpter born in 1932 in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. His art features large figures of both people and animals.
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When asked why he chose to paint the "fat people" his response was, “An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.” (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero)
I love his paintings of fat couples, in love, seductive, happy! His nudes are bold and confident, sensual and beautiful. He's very much worth discovering if you haven't encountered his work before.
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