A family
Fernando Botero
colombian

first impressions
when i first saw this i thought it was kind of
wierd because the way he made all of the people
very big and exagerated. i also thought it was
kind of starnge how the mothers back is turned
away from us.

what i have learned
Boteros work includes still lifes and landscapes but
he primarily does situational portraiture. his paintings
are nown for there large proportions. he says that
"An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without
knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later
do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."

i think botero uses two principles of design to communicate
the view about the family. he uses grouping to show the
mother by having her be surrounded by her family. also
he uses leading lines to go to the mother because the nanny
and the boy or facing her. i think all this shows that he thinks
that the mother is the most important in the family and holds
everything together.