Street art · Madrid
Photo: Manuel González Olaechea, CC BY 3.0
La Mano de Botero
By Fernando Botero
Paseo de la Castellana traffic hums past a colossal bronze hand rising from the grass — Fernando Botero's signature swollen, rotund forms scaled up into monumental public sculpture, all volume and no tension, like a giant's palm caught mid-gesture.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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