Colombian Artist Agitprop
Charles Johnson
Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 8:09 am PDT • Views: 415
Here’s another contribution to the mythology of Abu Ghraib from Colombian artist Fernando Botero, creator of a series of idiotically exaggerated paintings: Colombian Artist Depicts Abu Ghraib Abuse. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)
BOGOTA, Colombia - In a new series of paintings by famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Iraqi detainees are shown being beaten by American prison guards, made to wear women’s lingerie and suffering other abuse.
Botero has taken his sharpest departure yet from his normally placid scenes of chubby people and other still life paintings and sculptures, which have hung in such places as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo.
He told The Associated Press that he became so upset by prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison that he felt compelled to produce works that would graphically depict it.
“I, like everyone else, was shocked by the barbarity, especially because the United States is supposed to be this model of compassion,” he said in an interview from his art studio in Paris.
Here’s a slideshow of Botero’s works of America-hatred: - Painter’s Abu Ghraib-Themed Works" target="_blank">
- Painter’s Abu Ghraib-Themed Works” target=”_blank”>Painter’s Abu Ghraib-Themed Works, featuring the lovely, not-biased-at-all caption:
Colombian painter Fernando Botero gestures front of his new paintings depicting the horrors of U.S. guards’ abuse of captives at Iraq’s Abu Graib prison, Monday April 11, 2005 in Paris, France. Botero says he became so upset that he felt compelled to produce works showing his trademark chubby characters naked and being blooded by americans.
Frank says: