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Watch this video and know more about Fernando Botero Angulo – a figurative artist and sculptor from Medellin, Columbia. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

Watch the video here and do the tasks.

1. Match the words from the article on the left with their synonyms on the right.

1.	style	a	affected
2	largely	b	got
3.	obese	c	fashion
4.	influenced	d	wealthy
5.	rich	e	fat
6.	received	f	mainly

2. Number these lines in the correct order.

(  )	A.   typical of Botero using art for social commentary.
(  )	B.   in the Italian Renaissance. He began to experiment with creating volume in his figures by expanding them and compressing
(  )	C.   destroyed his sculpture ‘Bird’ in Medellin. Seventeen people died in the attack.
(1)	D.   Fernando Botero was born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia. He paints in the neo-figurative style and calls himself
(  )	E.   life in all parts of their body. His critics often call them “fat people”. Botero doesn’t know
(  )	F.   a series of 50 paintings that graphically showed the horror of the events in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. This is
(  )	G.  Botero’s works now hang in galleries all over the world. He is guaranteed millions of dollars for each painting he
(  )	H.   "the most Colombian of Colombian artists". He largely paints large people – figures that are much larger than
(  )	I.   exhibition when he was 20, in the capital Bogota. He used the money he received to go to Europe to study art.
(  )	J.   Botero grew up looking at paintings in his local Catholic church. These were in the centuries-old Baroque style and
(  )	K.   does. His works instantly become collector’s items and many people buy them as investments. In 2005, Botero painted
(  )	L.   influenced his style. He was never rich enough to visit galleries and see other works. He held his first
(  )	M.   the reason why he paints such obese forms.
(  )	N.   the space around them. This became his unique and trademark style. In 1997, Colombian terrorists
(  )	O.   Throughout the 1960s he lived in New York. He found a new inspiration