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This artist was expelled from Jesuit high school for an article praising how Picasso’s Cubist art destroyed individualism. This artist created the sculpture Dove of Peace from the remains of the earlier sculpture Bird after it was blown up by a bomb. In a painting by this artist, a gangster falls backwards on a roof as bullets pierce his body. This artist, whose namesake museum in the Candelaria neighborhood contains the painting Mona Lisa, Age 12, painted dogs and guards torturing blindfolded, nude men in a series responding to the Abu Ghraib scandal. (10[1])This artist’s Violence series depicts car bombings and kidnappings in his home country, where president Gustavo Petro eulogized him after his September 2023 death. For 10 points, what Colombian artist was known for exaggerated, rotund depictions of people? ■END■

ANSWER: Fernando Botero (The painting of a gangster is The Death of Pablo Escobar.)
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