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Fernando Botero was born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia. He paints in the neo-figurative style and calls himself "the most Colombian of Colombian artists". He largely paints large people，figures that are much larger than life in all parts of their body. His critics often call them “fat people”. Botero doesn’t know the reason why he paints such obese forms.
1932年，費爾南多·博特羅出生于哥倫比亞的麥德林。他是新具象主義畫派畫家，他將自己稱之為是最具哥倫比亞風格的哥倫比亞藝術家。他主要繪畫人物，他所繪畫的身體部位會比正常體型更加龐大。批判家經常將他們稱之為“胖子”。對于繪畫如此臃腫的形象，就連博特羅也不知道原因。
Botero grew up looking at paintings in his local Catholic church. These were in the centuries-old Baroque style and influenced his style. He was never rich enough to visit galleries and see other works. He held his first exhibition when he was 20, in the capital Bogota. He used the money he received to go to Europe to study art.
博特羅從小就在當地的天主教看畫。這些都是擁有數百年歷史的巴洛克風格繪畫，這些也影響到了他的繪畫風格。他沒錢去參觀畫展，或是其他藝術作品。在首都波哥大，20歲的博特羅迎來了自己的首個個人展。他用這些錢前往歐洲學習藝術。
Throughout the 1960s he lived in New York. He found a new inspiration in the Italian Renaissance. He began to experiment with creating volume in his figures by expanding them and compressing the space around them. This became his unique and trademark style. In 1997, Colombian terrorists destroyed his sculpture ‘Bird’ in Medellin. Seventeen people died in the attack.
20是世紀60年代，他一直生活在紐約。意大利文藝復興給了他新的啟發。他通過擴展人物，壓縮周圍空間的方法來創造更多體積。這也已經成為了他的標志性風格。1997年，哥倫比亞恐怖分子摧毀了他在麥德林的雕塑“鳥”。這次襲擊造成17人死亡。
Botero’s works now hang in galleries all over the world. He is guaranteed millions of dollars for each painting he does. His works instantly become collector’s items and many people buy them as investments. In 2005, Botero painted a series of 50 paintings that graphically showed the horror of the events in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. This is typical of Botero using art for social commentary.
如今，博特羅的作品遍布全球許多美術館。他每幅畫的擔保價格都達到了上百萬美金。他的作品立刻成為了收藏家的收藏之物，許多人拿他的畫進行投資。2005年，博特羅繪畫了50幅系列畫作，生動地體現了伊拉克阿布格萊布監獄的慘劇。這也是博特羅引發社會評論的典型作品。
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