'Great Crime' at Abu Ghraib Enrages and Inspires an Artist

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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 7 - <snip>

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. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/international/americas/08botero.html?hp

[thebigidea]

1. its good that this is getting attention, but the one on the left is AWFUL!