Dog Art Today

Tag: Dog Turning A Corner

  • Fernando Botero’s Dogs

    Botero_man_with_dog
    Man With Dog, 1989

    In honor of the release of the new beautiful and comprehensive book, The Baroque World Of Fernando Botero by John Sillevis, David Elliott, and Edward J. Sullivan, I’ve curated a virtual exhibition of this renowned Colombian painter’s dog art works.

    Excerpt from Booklist review:

    “Sillevis aligns Botero’s baroque fullness of form with the magic realism of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Studies in beauty and terror, Botero’s monumental figures can be sensual, and many are large with pain and sorrow. Like Goya, Botero often depicts violence, but no works attain the moral weight of his Abu Ghraib series.”

    Botero_portrait_military_junta
    Official Portrait of the Military Junta, 1971

    Botero_dog_turning_corner
    Dog Turning A Corner, 1980

    Botero_homme_au_piano
    Homme au Piano, 2006

    Botero_the_hunter
    The Hunter, 1980

    Family_with_dog
    Family With Dog, 2006

    Botero_family
    Family, 2004

    Botero_abu_ghraib_6
    Abu Ghraib 6, 2004

    Botero_abu_ghraib_52
    Abu Ghraib 52, 2005

    Botero_dog_sculpture
    Dog sculpture at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, Botero’s home town. (Courtesy of VeryBerryMojo’s Flickr site.)

    The retrospective, The Baroque World Of Fernando Botero, runs from now until January 11, 2009 at The Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis.