Botero

The world was shocked i 2003 by the revelatio that U.S. guards had mistreated ad tortured Iraqi prisoers at the otorious Abu Ghraib priso ear Baghdad. I respose, the reowed Colombia artist Ferado Botero created a series of rivetig paitigs ad drawigs that costitute a acerbic ad poigat statemet agaist violece ad ma's ihumaity to ma. The 73-year-old artist, drawig o his kowledge of Reaissace art, has produced a body of works that are timely yet timeless, a visio of hell o earth belogig to a log, oble traditio of artistic statemets agaist war ad violece that icludes Goya's "Caprichos" ad Picasso's "Guerica", the works of the Mexica muralists, more recet politically charged works by Philip Gusto ad Leo Golub, ad Botero's ow 1980s paitigs of the effects of drug violece i Colombia.