Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist born in 1932. He had his first work published at age 16 in a Colombian newspaper. Botero is known for his distinctive style of painting and sculpting figures with heavy, exaggerated proportions. Some of his most famous works include "Mona Lisa", depicting the famous portrait as an overweight woman, and "The First Lady" which shows a plump woman on a horse. He has worked and lived in Paris for the last three decades and is the most recognized living Latin American artist.