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-Fernando Botero- "Via Crucis Painting Biography

Fernando Botero or also named "The most Colombian of Colombian artists" is very famous. He was born on April 19th, 1932. He was born in Medellin, Colombia. He has 3 children named Fernando II,Lina,and Juan Carlos. Also he was married with Gloria Zea. But they divorced. He graduated in the Liceo de la Universidad de Antioquia and studied in the Real Acadamia de Bellas Artes in San Fernando,Colombia. He was influenced by Spanish colonial art that was around him as a child. He is still alive and is 81 years old. In his "ViaCrucis" painting, he used paint. Fernando Botero draws and colors fat people. In this specific painting, he drew "Fat Jesus". You can see He was fat by his neck and chest. Fernando Botero used many details and used very few bright colors into a picture that sent a message to other people. The person in the picture ( Jesus ) stood out because of the bright colors and Jesus was with a REAL color.