Botero: A World of his Own ...

... true to the subjectivist Master of the Universe* syndrome, Art Daily announces that "Using a broad range of media, the Colombian-born Botero has created a world of his own, one that is at once accessible and enigmatic (...)" ...

Art Daily: "The Delaware Art Museum Presents Retrospective "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero"

The Delaware Art Museum presents The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, a major retrospective exhibition featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings, on view March 15, 2008 – June 8, 2008. Fernando Botero (b. 1932), well known for his extravagantly rounded figures, is one of the most internationally popular artists working today. (...) >>>


* Since Kant found it wise and "necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith," thereby facilitating the idea that consciousness evolves separated from reality; and Hegel held that consciousness creates reality instead of vice versa; and contradictions moreover are thus a phenomenon that can be ignored; we are stuck with the idea that people can create "their own worlds". Since postmodernists take everything literally, we are supposed to accept that Botero's universe of excessively round figures, although enigmatic, is somehow accessible. No wonder it's a jungle out there ...