Fernando Botero

You may or may not have seen these strange paintings of fat people before. However, in Colombia these paintings are very popular. Fernando Botero is a figurative artist and sculptor that depicts people in a large figure. His fat figures is what has brought him fame, his reason for sculpting such large figures is "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it." His artwork is showcased all over Colombia. He drew a series of 27 painting and 23 sculptors dealing with the violence of drug cartels in Colombia and donated them to the National Museum of Colombia. His sculptors are showcased all over Colombia and Botero is seen as a large artistic figure in Colombia.