哥倫比亞藝術家費爾南度‧波特羅(Fernando Botero )，以其特殊的造型風格成為國際級的藝術家，他塑造出頗具個人風格的特徵，以其肥胖(obesity)、變形(deformation)、反比例(anti-proportion)、反透視(anti-perspective)、及詼諧(comicality)的外形引人注意。

在大家向前衛藝術靠攏之時，波特羅卻選擇回到早期義大利文藝復興時期的藝術及拉丁美洲的民俗藝術，並且將文藝復興前輩大師的繪畫技巧轉化成為自身的繪畫特徵，因而造就出如此獨一無二的壯碩型體，也成為波特羅的繪畫印記。

而波特羅並非以回到傳統為目的，他更吸收部份前衛藝術養分，因此，帶有特殊語彙的繪畫才是波特羅的真正追求，他就是要創造出獨具風格的「波特羅式」藝術繪畫表現為目標，現今，他仍以這些頗具個人特色的風格享譽國際。

Colombian Artist Fernando Botero becomes the international artist which by its special modeling style. He makes quite individual and characteristic style. And he is famous for the obesity, deformation, anti-proportion, anti-perspective,and comicality in his art.

When everyone is close to the avant-garde art, but Botero chooses to return the early Renaissance in Italy, and the folk art in Latin America. He takes the Renaissance master's drawing skill to transform into his own drawing characteristic, and he creates massive characters uniquely. It becomes the mark of Botero.

But it is not Botero’s aim of returning to tradition, he also absorbs a part of the avant-garde art. Therefore Botero’s ambition is to make a special symbol in his paintings, in other words, he want to creates unique “Boteroque” painting style. Today, he is also famous for it in the world.

I. 波特羅專書

Cau, Jean,Botero:Bullfight, New York:Archer Fields, 1990.
Escallón, Ana Maria,Botero:New Works on Canvas,Bogota:Villegas editors, 1997.
Fuentes, Carlos,Botero Women, New York:Rizzoli, 2003.
Gallwitz, Klaus,Fernando Botero ,translated by Gabriel,John,London:Thames and Hudson, 1976.
Hanstein, Mariana,Fernando Botero, Koln :Taschen, 2003.
Manuel, José, Bonald, Caballero,Botero:The Bullfight, New York:Rizzoli international Publications, 1990.
McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee, Fernando Botero: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington:Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
Paquet, Marcel,Botero:Philosophie de la Création,Brussels:Philosophie des Arts,1985.
Spies,Werner, Botero ,Fernando,Fernando Botero:Painting and Drawings,Munich :Prestel, 1992.
Sullivan,Edward J., Tasset,Jean-Marie,Fernando Botero:Monograph & Cataloque Raisonné Painting 1975-1990, Lausann:Sylvio Acatos, 2000.
Sullivan, Edward J., Botero Sculpture,New York:Abbeville Press, 1986.
Sullivan, Edward J., Fernando Botero: Drawings and Watercolors, New York: Rizzoli international Publications, 1993.
Villegas, Benjamin, Botero: in the Museo Nacional de Colombia New donation 2004 ,Bogota:Villegas Editores, 2004.
Villegas, Benjamin, Botero: Drawings, Bogota: Villegas Editores, 1999.

II. 現代藝術史專論

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III. 藝術期刊論文

“La Nacion”,World Press Review,Jun1994.
Adams, Brooks,”Botero on the Avenue”,in Art in America,Nov1993.
Birbragher,-Celia Sredni de, Botero donates his collection to Colombia,Art-Nexus no34 Nomber 1999/January 2000.
Botero, Fernando,”Je suis unique”,France 5 ,Dimanche 3 avril 2005,Retrieved May.01.2005,
from http://www.france5.fr/articles/W00068/593/44587.cfm
Botero, Fernando,”The Picasso is Real ,the Giotto Isn’t”,in Art News,vol.92,Summer 1993.
Escallon, Ana Maria,”Speaking with Botero”,in Americas,Nov/Dec1996.
Faris, Wendy B., “Larger than life:the hyperbolic realities of Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Fernando Botero”,in Word & Image,October-December 2001.
Gardner, Paul,”When Is a Painting Finished?”,Art News,Nov1985,pp.89-99.
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V. 相關網頁

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