Visual Analysis: A Family By Fernando Botero
Beyond the typical family. Visual Analysis # 1
Artist: Fernando Botero Title: A Family Date: 1989
Technique: Oil on canvas
Museum: Museum of fine arts
The work A Family of Fernando Botero has several physical elements to mention (in relation to art, color, size etc.) My first reaction was of concern, because the truth is that I chose this work because the paintings of Fernando Botero have always caught my attention. However, this time, I was faced with a simple little painting describable in terms of narrative. I saw a family, possibly wealthy, ordinary, and nothing flashy or special in it. I seriously considered changing work, but after a few minutes in front of the painting, I began to see and understand that precisely …show more content…
This is evident when we note that the mother lovingly holding her daughter. The caresses with his hand. The father, however, holds the hand of her son, but no obvious sign of affection. The above is what conveys the work: overview that was at the time about what was seen as an ideal family. Where man had more power than women in the family. Where was the man who worked and the woman who took care of the housework? Where the woman was transmitting affection and love, while the father conveyed respect and …show more content…
On the other hand, it is worth, contrasting the aforementioned evidence, regarding details on the characters, with the lack of details about the environment which are these: background trees, sky, apples etc. And having mentioned apples, is curious, their presence, considering that the painting you are looking reflect the portrait of a family in the countryside, and no sense that while a picture is taken in the field, have apples falling trees planted in these quantities. The size of the painting is quite large, about the size of a wall. This makes this work, a work quite striking in the eyes of the beholder, by its sheer size, the imposing presence of the characters that fill almost the entire space in the work, plus the lighting of the Museum gives placing it just above a light, so that makes it look somehow as the centerpiece of the
Artist: Fernando Botero Title: A Family Date: 1989
Technique: Oil on canvas
Museum: Museum of fine arts
The work A Family of Fernando Botero has several physical elements to mention (in relation to art, color, size etc.) My first reaction was of concern, because the truth is that I chose this work because the paintings of Fernando Botero have always caught my attention. However, this time, I was faced with a simple little painting describable in terms of narrative. I saw a family, possibly wealthy, ordinary, and nothing flashy or special in it. I seriously considered changing work, but after a few minutes in front of the painting, I began to see and understand that precisely …show more content…
This is evident when we note that the mother lovingly holding her daughter. The caresses with his hand. The father, however, holds the hand of her son, but no obvious sign of affection. The above is what conveys the work: overview that was at the time about what was seen as an ideal family. Where man had more power than women in the family. Where was the man who worked and the woman who took care of the housework? Where the woman was transmitting affection and love, while the father conveyed respect and …show more content…
On the other hand, it is worth, contrasting the aforementioned evidence, regarding details on the characters, with the lack of details about the environment which are these: background trees, sky, apples etc. And having mentioned apples, is curious, their presence, considering that the painting you are looking reflect the portrait of a family in the countryside, and no sense that while a picture is taken in the field, have apples falling trees planted in these quantities. The size of the painting is quite large, about the size of a wall. This makes this work, a work quite striking in the eyes of the beholder, by its sheer size, the imposing presence of the characters that fill almost the entire space in the work, plus the lighting of the Museum gives placing it just above a light, so that makes it look somehow as the centerpiece of the