Fernando Botero: Recent Paintings

 Artist: Fernando Botero Title: Fernando Botero: Paintings Year: 1996 ISBN: 0-89797-118-3 Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Paperback, 11 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches, 70 pages, 34 color plates   This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Fernando Botero: Recent Paintings presented by Marlborough Gallery. The exhibition, comprised of thirty paintings, marks Botero’s first painting exhibition in New York in over a decade. Formally speaking, Botero's concerns are with curvilinear line and volumetric shape, what Werner Spies has called "an exaltation of form." Botero says, "What I do is volume - Men, women. animals, landscapes, objects, whatever. That full sensuous form. I believe in that." One could say that Botero's art is a symphony of curves resounding through forms in a monumental way and whose music breathes "a mythological aura." Botero's work is not about corpulence. To this point Botero has said, "The deformation you see is the result of my involvement w