well at least the american troops are not chopping heads off in front of cameras, This type of shiat is always happening to war prisoners around the world and in the past it has been 10 times worse.
Not saying i agree with americans invading Iraq though .
El Mismo wrote: a 100 years from now, those painting will ensure new Islamic generations do not forget what happen to the fellow islams.....and a new war will beging.
Like they say, a picture is a 1000 words, in this case 80 painting will scream out 80000 words.
It wouldn't matter for (not all) the Americans, they can't remember anything after they push the button to change channels...
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Accepting to display his work, is accepting that their military troops are corrupted.
The US will never want to admit they made a mistake. Which is sad, because the whole world knows.
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NEW YORK. Colombian artist Fernando Botero is offering some 80 paintings and drawings portraying the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison to any suitable museum willing to display them. Despite the generosity of the offer, Mr Botero may struggle to find a home for his Iraq cycle. He says an exhibition of the works was “proposed to many museums in the US, but after six months there was no interest.”
It's not the first time he has done this. He did similar works when the 'Guerra de los Carteles" hit the country.
It doesn't surprise me that US can't accept some criticism from the art standpoint. If he would make a series about 9/11 it would be all over MoMA and the other museums.
He 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.
"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.
"No one would have ever remembered the horrors of Guernica if not for the painting," said Botero, referring to Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica," which depicts the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War.
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MAybe the museums representatives are scared to be called traitors the same way the Dixie Chicks were. There's freedom of speach; but it comes with a price to pay.
NEW YORK. Colombian artist Fernando Botero is offering some 80 paintings and drawings portraying the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison to any suitable museum willing to display them. Despite the generosity of the offer, Mr Botero may struggle to find a home for his Iraq cycle. He says an exhibition of the works was “proposed to many museums in the US, but after six months there was no interest.”
NEW YORK. Colombian artist Fernando Botero is offering some 80 paintings and drawings portraying the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison to any suitable museum willing to display them. Despite the generosity of the offer, Mr Botero may struggle to find a home for his Iraq cycle. He says an exhibition of the works was “proposed to many museums in the US, but after six months there was no interest.”
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