Fernando Botero y Gabriel García Márquez: vida y obra

FERNANDO BOTERO

• Fernando Botero Angulo (Medellín, 19 April 1932) is a Colombian painter, sculptor and draftsman, domiciled in Pietrasanta (Italy), Paris (France), City of Monaco and New York (United States of America) . The artistic creations of his authorship are imprinted a sui generis and irreverent interpretation of the figurative style, called by some as "Boterism", which impregnates of an unmistakable identity to the iconographic works, recognizable not only by the specialized critic, but also by the The public, including children and adults alike, becoming one of the main manifestations of contemporary art at a global level; The original interpretation that the artist gives to a diverse spectrum of subjects is characterized from the plastic by an exalted volumetry that impregnates the creations of a three-dimensional character, as well as of strength, exuberance and sensuality, together with a particular anatomical conception, an aesthetics Which can be chronologically framed in the 1940s in the West applied to plots that may be current or past, local but with universal vocation (Greek and Roman mythology, love, customs, daily life, nature, landscapes, death, violence, woman, sex , Religion and politics in Latin America and Western Europe, as well as still lifes, reinterpretation of classical works.
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ

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• Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Aracataca, March 6, 1927) was a Colombian writer, writer, editor and journalist. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was familiarly known by his friends as Gabito, by his apocope Gabo, since Eduardo Zalamea Borda, deputy director of the newspaper El Espectador, began to call it that. It is inherently related to magical realism and his best known work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, is considered one of the most representative of this literary movement and is also considered by the success of the novel is that the term applies To the literature that emerged from the 1960s in Latin America.6 7 In 2007, the Spanish Royal Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language launched a popular edition commemorating this novel, considering it part of the great Hispanic classics of all the times. Fidel Castro was well known in the literary and political world.

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