"The HOUSE of MARTA PINTUCO" (2001), Fernando Botero, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
The HOUSE of MARTA PINTUCO
Botero's "The House of Marta Pintuco" is a transparent look at the messy and often chaotic reality of brothel life. A well-known genre of Dutch 17th century painting, this type of provocative imagery often carried hidden messages such as a warning that to engage in these pleasures was to fall into a path of immorality. Botero's brothel paintings are oddly the least sensual of all his work, as they refuse to mask or romanticize the realities of this lifestyle.
"The Baroque World of Fernando Botero"
Winnipeg Art Gallery
December 10, 2010 to February 27, 2011
"The HOUSE of MARTA PINTUCO" (2001), Fernando Botero, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
The HOUSE of MARTA PINTUCO
Botero's "The House of Marta Pintuco" is a transparent look at the messy and often chaotic reality of brothel life. A well-known genre of Dutch 17th century painting, this type of provocative imagery often carried hidden messages such as a warning that to engage in these pleasures was to fall into a path of immorality. Botero's brothel paintings are oddly the least sensual of all his work, as they refuse to mask or romanticize the realities of this lifestyle.
"The Baroque World of Fernando Botero"
Winnipeg Art Gallery
December 10, 2010 to February 27, 2011