How Much Would Jesus Weigh? Critic Challenges Fernando Botero

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By Marisa Martin

NEW YORK---Fernando Botero is a famed Columbian artist whose distinctive mark is pounds upon pounds of saggy, surplus human flesh. No one born of Botero’s brush or sculptural studio is immune from his extra, in-depth avoirdupois, not even Jesus himself. Jesus had never been a central fixture in the exhibits of the über-successful Columbian artist until a 2011 show at New York’s Marlborough Gallery. “Via Crucis,” or “The Way of the Cross,” reenacts gospel accounts of Jesus’ scourging, mocking and crucifixion, but it’s the shape of Christ’s body that draws much of the attention in these works. [link]
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COLUMBIA---A woman looks at paintings in the exhibition "Via Crucis, the passion of Christ" of Colombian artist Fernando Botero, on October 8, 2013, in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Botero was the curator of his own exhibition, which is composed of 27 oil paintings and 34 drawings combining traditional aspects of Catholicism and the modern world. [link]