![]() Not that they need to be differentiated, because each oil is a unique and bone chilling representation of what US soldiers did to their prisoners behind Abu Ghraib’s silent and impenetrable walls. Each work is titled Abu Ghraib and given a number from 1 to 50 to set them apart. Said Botero, "No one would have ever remembered the horrors of Guernica if not for the painting." And no one will ever forget the vision of hell Botero has committed to canvas with these startling oil paintings. What Botero has achieved is nothing short of a contemporary equivalent to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, the masterwork painted in outrage over the aerial bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. "I, like everyone else, was shocked by the barbarity, especially because the United States is supposed to be this model of compassion." The artist was so upset about what the US had done in Iraq that he set out to create a series of paintings that would forever etch the crime upon the collective consciousness of humanity. He’s completed his masterwork, a suite of 50 large oil paintings depicting the horrors perpetrated by Americans at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison. However, Fernando Botero’s latest paintings go beyond anything he’s ever created in the past. Six years ago he began painting the bloody reality of his native Columbia, and just last year he exhibited paintings in Colombia’s capital of Bogotá that focused on his nation’s 40-year-old guerilla war. But lately his cheery and mild-mannered paintings have suddenly turned into works of profound and biting social commentary. Botero is a successful artist who has achieved popular acclaim as well as recognition from the art establishment.
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