These are paintings and drawings by Fernando Botero, a Columbian painter, regarding the torture at Abu Ghraib. They are not for sale. The artist wants to display them in the United States. So far no museum has accepted his offer. So, YouTube is the only means he has of disseminating his work. Correction: Botero’s Abu Ghraib series is currently on display at The University of California, Berkeley until March 23, 2007.
Very powerful, words fail me…..thanks for posting this!
Steven, Have you posted at dkos?
No. Not sure what the rules are there anymore for posting this.
Good for Berkeley for putting the exhibition on view.
The Heinrich Schultz music is fitting for the images. Thank you for posting this video.
Mr Steven D,
Wow, those are some amazing impressions he has translated into indictments.
Art as a permanent accusation, it is finally out. Now everybody will see this, for hundreds & hundreds of years. How hard it must have been, for that man, to paint himself in the same light as the torturers, for the simple fact, that he is also of the same species. With every brush stroke, it must have also been torture to his heart, that, man`s inhumanity to man, was left to him, to document in such a manner.
I remember seeing and reading about this collection of Botero’s quite awhile ago..and that it had so far been banned basically here in the US..incredibly glad that Berkeley is giving these paintings the light of day here and can only hope that this collection will tour the US.
Heaven forbid that some MSM mind numbed Americans would have to be confronted with the real horrors of what our country is doing in our name. Looking reality in the face isn’t pretty.