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Fernado Botero’s art world; a Perspective on the Great Crime that took place in Baghdad, Iraq that’s known as Abu Ghraib Prison

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Since the age of nineteen-the year of his first solo exhibition-Fernando Botero has delighted his audience with joyful rotund figures, the figures that we can tell how it populated his large scale canvases. Fernando Botero, like any great artist; he was compelled to paint the female. More than 100 of his greatest works devoted to the theme of women are collected in his oversize deluxe volume, the design of which was overseen and directed by the artist himself. One of the important elements that I have been searching and looking for to learn more about this artist style technique when I found out that most of the internet sites, books, articles and video sources were all saying that Botero have never worked from live models as he feels it limits from his "creativity". The women in his work are inspired by the women he has known throughout his life. Most of his women were selected to be more similar to what he has seen in his family members, relatives, and neighbor