Fernando Botero is now exhibiting his new work, which focuses on the atrocities that took place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Again, to continue on the theme from yesterday, it is good for the sake of our histroy, as well as Art history that these confused and misguided times are represented in our creativity. Movements are born in such volatile times, but only when people respond to that volatility with thoughtful passion.
Here is my translation of Google's translation, regarding Botero's answer to why he came to paint pictures about Abu Ghraib:
From the anger that I felt, and that the entire world felt about this crime committed by the country that by all appearances acts as the model of civilization, justice, and compassion.***
The injustice makes my blood boil.
Botero's exhibit began June 16 at the Museum of Palazzo Venezia in Rome.