Botero, Fernando Fernando Botero, born in Colombia in 1932, is the sole living artist on this list and one of the most well-known Latin American artists. He has had a major impact on both modern and contemporary art in Colombia as well as worldwide. The most important museum devoted exclusively to his work is the Fernando Botero Museum in his home city of Cali, which opened in 2004. It contains more than 2,000 pieces of art including sculptures, drawings, and paintings. In addition to this museum, there are other significant collections of his work in countries such as Spain, France, and the United States. His artistic philosophy can be summarized in three words: "Flesh, steel, and stone". He uses these terms to describe the human body as it appears to him through his artwork. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Literature in 1992 but declined the award because he did not want to be a political figure. He has said that he does not want to be considered an artist but rather a miner of truths that arise before me daily like stones in a river. These truths are then carved into shapes that serve to express them pictorially.