Botero’s picnics are moments of happiness, abundance, and love of life. The settings are pleasant; there is ample food, wine, and other provisions. Sometimes, his picnickers are so relaxed that they fall asleep. His early exploration of the picnic theme, Picnic in the Mountains, shows a Young couple, sated and nearly somnolent.
For this picnic inspired by the Andes, Botero does not provide a blanket. Instead, the couple is situated on small cone-shaped stones that resemble little mountains. As the picnickers sit on small cone-shaped mountains.
It may be that picnickers allude to Adam and Eve before the Fall. She was surrounded by sexual symbolism: breast-like mountains, round fruits, grapes, bottles of wine, and bread baguettes. The woman holds a fruit or cookie in her hand, hovering over her crotch. The man, reclining with a dreamy look, sucks on a blade of grass.
See Fernando Botero. Picnic in the Mountains (1966)