Botero

Today is all about Fernando Botero - possibly Colombia's most-famous artist, Botero hails from Medellin, and has a very distinctive style, his works instantly recognizable to those that have been lucky enough to have previously seen his works.  While ...

... on view in the Lustgarten, on Museum Island. With museums, cathedrals and even the DDR's ugly Alezanderplatz tower within view, Botero sited each of the sculptures himself. The public is enamored of them, and kids especially find his sculptures to be ...

... s 5. groesste Ziegelsteigebaeude vo de Welt si, aber schoen isch das Konstrukt noed unbedingt. Am beste gfallt eus de Plaza Botero mit sine Bronzefigure. Mit de effiziente und moderne Metro fahred mir zruck i 'euses' Quartier. Am naechste Tag besichtiged ...

Saturday 19 June. Bling, Botero, Bonnie & Clyde Saturday morning, and with the notion of Men in Suits around the Presidential Palace in mind, I had my morning coffee listening to a few numbers from 'Evita'.  Putting myself into the Right ...

... hence the name of the town:  holy stone).  It had some other art besides the marble.  In the early 1990's Fernando Botero, the Columbian artist spent some time there.  He left two frescoes in an old church, one of the Gates of Hell, ...

... Colombia (35,000) Warm Bogota – Fusa (80 kms) yesterday we were culture vultures and went to the wonderful donacion Botero (free admission), as well as Botero himself (I always wondered where Beryl Cook got her inspiration from) there were works by ...

... there were the famous Museo del Oro (gold museum), the Emerald museum, the coin museum (seriously!) and the Botero art gallery. Botero is a famous Colombian artist and sculptor whose signature style is 'well-proportioned' (actually I think he himself has ...