Botero Museum

This guide to the Botero Museum in Bogotá starts with a bowl of painted fruit swollen almost to bursting, and traces it back to Fernando Botero's childhood in Medellín, where his father died when he was four and food was never mere decoration. It follows how the artist, later one of the most collected in the world, kept returning to plain still lifes of watermelon, oranges and bread, and the word he used instead of fat to describe their exaggerated volume. Look closely at the fruit in the first gallery before moving deeper into the mansion.