{"id":645997,"date":"2026-10-30T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:40:11","slug":"a-way-of-celebrating-presence-what-boteros-rotund-remakes-of-classical-masterpieces-tell-us-about-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645997\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A way of celebrating presence&#8217;: What Botero&#8217;s rotund remakes of classical masterpieces tell us about art history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">For Botero, exaggerating objects and figures was &#8220;a way of celebrating the presence of things,&#8221; Herrera Ottino says, adding that it was also a &#8220;celebration of life, and of the sensuality of nature&#8221;. During his life, he often explained that his artworks&#8217; main purpose was to uplift the spirits of those who viewed it, which he believed form and colour in particular could do. &#8220;It was clear to him that throughout history, the purpose of art was to create pleasure,&#8221; adds the artist&#8217;s son, and former Colombian Minister of Defence, Fernando Botero Zea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Botero, exaggerating objects and figures was &#8220;a way of celebrating the presence of things,&#8221; Herrera Ottino says,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-645997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}