The Death Of Pablo Escobar By Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero’s art piece titled The Death of Pablo Escobar, represents the Colombian legend Pablo Escobar in a unique, strong and iconic way. Medellin’s “robin hood” and even a hero for some, but most importantly it portrays the fall of a famous king pin that thought of himself as invincible after being shot multiple times by the police. The painting was made in 1999 by the Colombian painter Fernando Botero. The Death of Pablo Escobar resides in the Museum of Antioquia - Medellin (Colombia - Medellin) and is considered a patrimony of Colombian culture. Its dimensions are of: Height: 45.7 cm and, Width: 34.3 cm. Botero’s work is a dark and gloomy representation of the iconic fall of the world’s most famous drug lord at the time. Botero stuck to a cool color scheme of pale blue in the clouds on the background, the muted green of the mountains, and the different tones of browns of the house roofs. Pablo’s white shirt contrasts with the muted colors from the background, even with his pale-yellow skin, while the bright red of the wounds in his chest grab the attention of the viewer. The colors of the sky suggest a storm is coming and the yellow tones from the
He favored a smooth look in his paintings, eliminating the appearance of brushwork and texture” (Encyclopedia Britannica, “Fernando Botero”). The smoothness of the painting gives it almost a surreal feel. These are the basic components that make Fernando Botero’s iconic style. The figure in the painting takes up most of the space in the painting because of the big volume the artist gives it and because of this it gives Pablo an illusion of mass. Making him seem really heavy. The overlapping form of the background houses and it’s diminishing sizes give an illusion of a long distance from the horizon in the mountains to the subject, which makes Pablo look very close to the viewer and bigger in size than the whole items