Botero - Painter of Fat


	Botero - Painter of Fat

sumobelly

6-16-2007 1:40 PM

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fat, fat art, bbw, botero

sumobelly says:

I like the big women in his paintings. So tired of thin content.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e7639857-81a4-49d0-91d8-afb881835470/1BCBA9D7-3249-49DB-9BD5-49B3A212CB54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6527181.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6527181.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6527181.stm"><P><FONT size="2"><B>Jeffrey Archer has a weakness for them. So does Sylvester Stallone.</B>
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<FONT size="2">And the late Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, used his ill-gotten gains to indulge his taste for them. Like other members of the world's conspicuously wealthy, these men have all been partial to a Botero.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6527181.stm"><P><FONT size="2">They are paintings and sculptures produced by their eponymous creator, Fernando Botero, a 75-year-old Colombian who has been hailed as "the Picasso of South America". 
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<FONT size="2">His canvases have been remarked on for the great girth of their female subjects. "Botero the painter of fat women" is the artist's own thumbnail sketch of himself. His corn-fed senoritas have helped to bring him heroic status in Latin America</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6527181.stm">His pieces sell for up to $2m each. So desireable are they that they've elevated the artist into the same super-rich bracket as his patrons.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1BCBA9D7-3249-49DB-9BD5-49B3A212CB54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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