‘BAROQUE WORLD OF FERNANDO BOTERO’ AT DELAWARE ART MUSEUM MARCH 15

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WILMINGTON, DEL. — The Delaware Art Museum will present “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero,” on view March 15–June 8.

Colombian-born Fernando Botero is a painter, sculptor and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work — commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America — and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history.

The Delaware Art Museum is at 2301 Kentmere Parkway. For more information, www.delart.org, 302-571-9590 or 866-232-3714.