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...more readily to his style than to more abstract or conceptual works, but is proud of that fact. "It communicates very easily with people," he says. So is Botero a great artist, or just a very, very successful one? Botero's corpulent characters - comical but keenly observed renderings of rotund ballerinas, families and Latin American small-town types like the ladies in The Gardening Club (1997) - are instantly recognizable. Even acknowledged reproductions of his work sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Two years ago, the British magazine ArtReview compiled a Top 10 ranking of the most highly valued artists...
...abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his American soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came out of the heart," Botero told TIME. On a flight from Bogotá to Paris last November, Botero saw an article on the abuses and was inspired...
...military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style itself. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his U.S. soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings on Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came out of the heart," Botero told TIME. On a flight from Bogotá to Paris last November, Botero tore an article on the abuses from a magazine...
...same price as a manga book, "Little Lulu" draws you into a world that remains as funny and fresh as it was fifty years ago. The main characters, Lulu, a highly spirited girl who frequently bests the "fellers" and their boys-only club, Tubby, the endlessly pratfalling, rotund would-be detective, and Alvin the brat who demands that Lulu tell him stories, form a comedic ensemble cast matched only by the likes of the Peanuts gang...
...Catholic school on the South Side, where he honed not only his passing game but also his stand-up act. He would mimic the coaches, break-dance in the locker room--anything to keep the team loose. He hasn't stopped. When asked to name something he admired about rotund Eagles coach Andy Reid, McNabb said, "His healthy eating...