Fernando Botero

Known for: voluminous figurative painting; the Abu Ghraib series (2005)

Fernando Botero developed a manner of depicting human figures and objects in inflated, rounded volumes — what he calls his "formal sensuality" — that he has maintained consistently since the 1960s, applying it to Old Master subjects, Colombian genre scenes, and, in his late work, images of torture at Abu Ghraib. He is the most commercially successful living Latin American artist and is represented by major institutions in Colombia, where he donated more than 200 works to a museum in his hometown of Medellín. He died in 2023 at 91.