Fernando Botero, who is known by some for his paintings of Rubensque (full-figured) women that celebrate chubby bodies rather than mock them, has recently released a series of paintings of Abu Ghraib prisoners. They are haunting, and manage to bring the same sense of humanity to this scandal of scandals.
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Major US museums did not dare to show the Abu Ghraib work by Botero. See here.