[lbo-talk] Colombian artist Fernando Botero

Tommy Kelly tkelly15450 at charter.net
Fri Jul 1 16:45:31 PDT 2005


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An Italian woman views a painting by Colombian artist Fernando Botero at Palazzo Venezia in Rome June 16, 2005. Botero is best known for his peaceful scenes of small-town life in Colombia, featuring comically corpulent priests, politicians and aristocrats. But since October, and inspired by Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison scandal, he has produced 60 works, including 20 paintings, of muscle-bound men strung up by their heels in dark prison cells, attacked by dogs and piled in heaps on the floor. REUTERS/Chris Helgren



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