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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib inspires artist Fernando Botero
>
> May 8, 2005
>
> 'Great Crime' at Abu Ghraib Enrages and Inspires an Artist
>
> By JUAN FORERO
>
> BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 7 - Fernando Botero, Latin America's best-known
> living
> artist, shocked the art world last year when he broke sharply from his
> usual
> depictions of small town life to reveal new works that depicted Colombia's
> war in horrific detail.
>
> Now, Mr. Botero, 73, who lives in Paris and New York, has taken on an even
> more explosive topic: the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
> Forty-eight paintings and sketches - of naked prisoners attacked by dogs,
> dangling from ropes, beaten by guards, in a mangled heap of bodies - will
> be
> exhibited in Rome at the Palazzo Venezia museum on June 16.
>
> "These works are a result of the indignation that the violations in Iraq
> produced in me and the rest of the world," Mr. Botero said by telephone
> from
> his Paris studio.
>
> "I began to do some very fluid drawings, and then I began to paint and the
> results are 50 works inspired by this great crime."
>
> Mr. Botero said the paintings and sketches, done in oils, pencil and
> charcoal and part of a 170-piece traveling exhibition, would also be shown
> at the Würth Museum in Germany in October and at the Pinacoteca in Athens
> next year before returning to Germany. ...
>
> No exhibitions in the United States are planned, though Mr. Botero said he
> would like nothing more. ...
>
> [Samples of works are shown at website below.]
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/international/americas/08botero.html?hp
> >
>
> Carl
>
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