ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
SWITZERLAND---
Galerie Gmurzynska presents “Santas”, a new suite of large - scale portrait paintings by enowned Colombian artist,
Fernando Botero.
For this body of work
created in 2014,
Botero has turned his attention to the iconic
depictions of female saints from the Christian canon, reinterpreting one of the
quintesse
ntial genres of Western
art history through his unique
style by which these
revered
unearthly
heroines
reemerge as distinctly worldly society ladies.
This
stellar all
-
female
cast
altogether
comprises
ten
saints.
 |
| In
“Santa Barbara” –
Botero however retains the graphic bodily inflictions
frequently
endured that are
responsible for the women’s subsequent
sanctification, in this particular case the
lacerated left breast of Barbara. |
SWITZERLAND---Galerie Gmurzynska presents “Santas”, a new suite of large - scale portrait paintings by enowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero.
For this body of work
created in 2014,
Botero has turned his attention to the iconic
depictions of female saints from the Christian canon, reinterpreting one of the
quintesse
ntial genres of Western
art history through his unique
style by which these
revered
unearthly
heroines
reemerge as distinctly worldly society ladies.
This
stellar all
-
female
cast
altogether
comprises
ten
saints.
