Nov 22, 2010 · Botero, 78, was not widely known as a political artist. So the art world was stunned in 2005, when he produced a series of 80 paintings, sketches and finished drawings based on the abuse of...

Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum. Read full description

Jan 29, 2007 · But Botero, 74, took everyone by surprise when he devoted a series of drawings and paintings to the torture of Iraqi prisoners by American security personnel at Abu Ghraib detention center,...

Berkeley Law exhibits four paintings from Fernando Botero’s (b. 1932) Abu Ghraib series which depict the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US guards. The internationally acclaimed Colombian artist created the works after a whistleblower leaked photographs of the abuse in 2004.

The shocking accounts and images of torture at the prison inspired the internationally acclaimed Colombian artist Fernando Botero (born 1932) to produce the torrent of powerful paintings and drawings that became his Abu Ghraib series. These graphic and compelling images of detention and imminent physical and psychological threat are still ...

Botero’s movement in the direction of overtly political art reached its culmination when he began to create work responding to Seymour Hersh’s article exposing the torture committed by members of the American armed forces in Abu Ghraib, a U.S.-controlled Iraqi prison.

Sep 30, 2006 · Fernando Botero’s suite of paintings and drawings depicting the torture of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of their American jailers in Abu Ghraib prison, will at last be exhibited in an American museum.

In 2005, renowned Colombian artist Francisco Botero unveiled a series of over 80 paintings and drawings which depicted stylized renditions of the prisoner abuse by American guards at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Sep 17, 2009 · BERKELEY — An exhibition of 56 powerful paintings and drawings by Colombian artist Fernando Botero about abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq opens Wednesday, Sept. 23, at the University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Art …

Feb 11, 2007 · For many people with just a passing familiarity with the work of Botero, the hellish conditions at Abu Ghraib might seem to be an unlikely choice of subject matter. Botero is best known for his colorful doughboy-like figures–cherubic children, pampered pets, and musicians from his native Colombia.