Well, here with my mom in Delaware this week, spending time together and trying to hide from the Memorial Day madness in Miami!!!! Ahhhhh!!!

My mom rocks.  If you haven't met her, then maybe one day you will. She's artistic, has a total green thumb, and can basically make anything.  She also has a ton of patience.  Many of these things seem to have skipped me!  um.. mostly the patience, haha!

Anyhow she is a docent at the Delaware Art Museum, so we're going to check out the pre-Raphaelites today!  Beautiful paintings of beautiful women... AND they have a Botero collection- totally whimsical paintings by the artist from Colombia.. (how very Miami, no?)

If you're ever in Delaware.. check out the museum.. it's amazing!

Here's a sneak peek of what I"m going to see today!

Here's their website!  DELAWARE ART MUSEUM

The Baroque World of Fernando Botero March 15, 2008 – June 8, 2008 Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is one of the most internationally popular artists working today. Using a broad range of media, the Colombian-born Botero has created a world of his own, one that is at once accessible and enigmatic.

Fernando Botero (b. 1932) The First Lady, 1989 Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 inches Private Collection

Botero is renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work—commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history.

Fernando Botero (b. 1932) The Orchestra, 2001 Oil on canvas, 80 x 56 ¾ inches Private Collection		Fernando Botero (b. 1932) After Velasquez, 2005 Oil on canvas, 79 x 67 inches Private Collection		Fernando Botero (b. 1932) Dancer at the Barre, 2001 Oil on canvas, 64 ½ x 45 ½ inches Private Collection

The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is a major retrospective exhibition featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Drawn from Botero’s private collection and assembled over the past 50 years, this exhibition includes favorite works that the artist was unable to part with, as well as pieces reacquired years after they left his possession. Many have never before been exhibited in public.

This exhibition goes beyond the Delaware Art Museum’s galleries, as three of Botero’s sculptures are mounted in the Museum’s Copeland Sculpture Garden.