Word: verdaccio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...product of Madrid's 214-year-old San Fernando Academy, Colombia-born Botero uses a Renaissance palette of seven oil colors over verdaccio, the greenish base that guarantees lifelike hues. He prefers ocher to the chemical yellows that the impressionists first popularized. Yet his art is as thoroughly contemporary as a giant vinyl hamburger, except that he practices easel painting where others mold plastics. In its carnival colorism it is also as Latin American as bananas and coffee beans (see color...
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