BOTERO AT BERKELEY: A Conversation With the Artist

Abstract: 

Fernando Botero in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.

On January 29, 2007, the Center for Latin American Studies opened the Abu Ghraib exhibit with a rare public conversation with Fernando Botero about his life and art. Robert Haas, a UC Berkeley professor of English who was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995–97, spoke with Mr. Botero about issues ranging from the process of painting to his life as a young man in Colombia; from artistic influences on his work to how the Abu Ghraib paintings and drawings came to be; from light and shadow on the canvas to moral issues in the world.

Author: 
Fernando Botero
Robert Hass
Publication date: 
January 9, 2007
Publication type: 
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article