Fernando botero childhood apraxia

Fernando Botero, also known as Fernando Botero Anguloborn April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia is a Colombian artist, painter and sculptor.

Known for his enormous metal sculptures and vibrantly colorful paintings of robust human and animal shapes, Colombian artist Fernando Botero was one of the most popular modern artists.

Studied Bullfighting

Fernando Botero was born in Medellin, in the Colombian Andes, on April 19, 1932.

His parents, David and Flora Angulo de Botero, had been raised in the remote highlands of the Andes. His father, a traveling salesman who journeyed on horseback to outlying areas of the city, died when Botero was four, and his mother supported the family as a seamstress.

The second of three boys, Botero attended a Jesuit secondary school on a scholarship starting at age 12.

His uncle also enrolled him in matador school, which he attended for two years, and the images in his first drawings come from the world of bullfigh