Since late 1950, Colombia began in the great movement of artistic expression such as painting and sculpture that had hitherto not been sufficiently recognized. With the arrival Traba country, a renowned art critic Argentina, started the boom of the Colombian plastic would be developed almost simultaneously with the rise of the stream called magical realism in Latin American literature was epitomized Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez ..........

It was then that began to emerge the largest Colombian painting as Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregon and sculpture, Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar

This unprecedented move would generate other figures as Beatriz Gonzalez, Santiago Cardenas, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Carlos Rojas, Manuel Hernandez and many others, whose works achieved wide recognition not only domestically but internationally as Fernando Botero, today, an artist of stature whose world works: painting, drawing and sculpture, reflect characters and objects characterized by its forthrightness, which is influenced by the great masters of painting from the colonial period and the pre-Columbian ceramics and sculptures. An irrigated excess paint and magic realism, as the art critic, Germain Pubiano Caballero.