Botero (1)


Source: Botero; Paintings and Drawings (New York, 2007), fig. 1.
Image: Painting by Fernando Botero, "Mona Lisa, Age 12", 1959.
Humanities questions: What relationship do you see between this painting and Leonardo da Vinci's original Renaissance painting, "Mona Lisa"? How does the title of Botero's painting help you interpret/analyze it? In what ways is this painting (a) Colombian; (b) Latin American; (c) international?