Fernando Botero, best known as "Maestro", is one of the most famous living artists in the world today. In Bullfight Botero focuses on the arena of man vs. animal in his study of Latin American culture today; the result is a beautiful meditation on one of the most dramatic sports on earth.
Bullfight features more than 140 oil paintings and thirty-five drawings by Fernando Botero, providing a gorgeous look at the artist's iconic subject, the tauromaquia, or bullfight. In his youth, Botero developed a passion and curiosity for bullfighting that has remained with him throughout his illustrious, six-decade career. The artist was profoundly influenced by the spectacle of the bullring-the vivid colors, the dynamic movement, the beauty and violence, bravery and fear, the fine line between life and death.
