Botero's anger at Abu Ghraib on display in Rome

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16719297.htm

ROME, June 16 (Reuters) - Bloodied hoods and anguished prisoners strung up naked by their feet or forced into sexual poses are hardly the images one expects from Fernando Botero, an artist who has made jovial, rotund portraits his trademark.

But that's what visitors to an exhibition that opened in Rome on Thursday will find.

Tucked in between paintings of the corpulent cardinals, presidents and prostitutes of Botero's native Colombia is a room filled with "the horrors of Abu Ghraib", a series that is on display for the first time.

Latin America's best-known living artist broke with tradition last year after reading an article about U.S. soldiers' abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail.

[Cha]

1. No more hiding your

shame, Abu Ghraib!

[GetTheRightVote]

2. How can we as decent people allow this to continue, shame on us

Close Abu Ghraib now.

:kick:

[IndianaGreen]

11. Close Guantanamo concentration camp too!

And while we are at it, let's return Guantanamo naval base to Cuba, and grant independence to Puerto Rico.

[Julius Civitatus]

3. Here's a link to some of those art pieces.

This is the legacy of George W. Bush, forever immortalized in artform:

http://www.revistadiners.com.co/noticia.php3?nt=24663


Here are some of the individual pieces in that magazine:









These ones, from Yahoo/AP news:







ttp://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050616/capt.gb10206161227.italy_botero_exhibit_gb102.jpg



http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,462350,00.jpg

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. Here are some more:

http://tinyurl.com/a67a3

I love Botero even more now ...............

[Julius Civitatus]

5. Wow! Thanks

[Julius Civitatus]

6. More pictures

(PS: Nominate this thread for the main page)

[Julius Civitatus]

7. Kick! --- n/t

[Algomas]

8. It is people like Botero...

who forcefully respond to the insanity of this world who give me hope for tomorrow. Speaking of hope, the fundies can keep their Faith, blind as it is. Just give me an occasional ray of hope to light the path and I'm happy.

[Rainscents]

9. When people see things in visual, it makes all the world of difference

That's why, when the photo's gets release end of this month, people are going get rude awakenings. It's not going to be pretty and I think more people are going to be outraged!

[IndianaGreen]

10. a "permanent witness to a great crime"

Ahead of the opening, Botero told Reuters he hoped his works would be a "permanent witness to a great crime" in much the same way Picasso's "Guernica" has become a permanent reminder of the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War.

Botero's depiction of American torture in Iraq will long outlive us all, as Picasso's Guernica has the players in the Spanish Civil War.

[Stockholm]

12. It´s Picasso´s guernica of today....

nominated

[saigon68]

13. Thanks to the CHIMPANZEE WAR CRIMINAL

EVERYONE HERE will be seeing a lot more of this in the future.