ART ABOUT ABU GHRAIB (Fernando Botero)
Posted: February 22nd, 2007, 5:32 pm

"Colombian Ball" by Fernando Botero ( oil on canvas)
Fernando Botero is a world-famous Colombian painter I have known about since high school. Botero, whose art is available in many English-language art books, became famous for painting ordinary Colombians, characters rather on the rotund and slightly comical side.
Now the 75-year-old artist is one of the first to do a series of paintings based on the U.S. initiated and promulgated atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison.
( Mother Jones article link):
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/feature ... hraib.html
More information on the artist, humanist and art historian Fernando Botero:
(link)
http://karaart.com/botero/
( also in Spanish-- ARCADIA!)
MORE FERNANDO BOTERO ART reproductions: ( his works):
( link)
http://karaart.com/botero/works1.html
Zlatko