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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，费尔南多·博特罗出生于哥伦比亚的麦德林。他是新具象主义画派画家，他将自己称之为是最具哥伦比亚风格的哥伦比亚艺术家。他主要绘画人物，他所绘画的身体部位会比正常体型更加庞大。批判家经常将他们称之为“胖子”。对于绘画如此臃肿的形象，就连博特罗也不知道原因。
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.
博特罗从小就在当地的天主教看画。这些都是拥有数百年历史的巴洛克风格绘画，这些也影响到了他的绘画风格。他没钱去参观画展，或是其他艺术作品。在首都波哥大，20岁的博特罗迎来了自己的首个个人展。他用这些钱前往欧洲学习艺术。
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是世纪60年代，他一直生活在纽约。意大利文艺复兴给了他新的启发。他通过扩展人物，压缩周围空间的方法来创造更多体积。这也已经成为了他的标志性风格。1997年，哥伦比亚恐怖分子摧毁了他在麦德林的雕塑“鸟”。这次袭击造成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，博特罗的作品遍布全球许多美术馆。他每幅画的担保价格都达到了上百万美金。他的作品立刻成为了收藏家的收藏之物，许多人拿他的画进行投资。2005年，博特罗绘画了50幅系列画作，生动地体现了伊拉克阿布格莱布监狱的惨剧。这也是博特罗引发社会评论的典型作品。
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