U.C. Berkeley Hosts "Artwork" Which Exaggerates Abu Gharaib

Photojournalist extraordinaire Zombie attended the January 29th opening at Doe Library on the U.C. Berkeley campus of Colombian artist Francisco Botero's "artwork"exaggerating terrorist prisoner abuse at Abu Gharaib prison. Botero said he wanted to create a modern "Guernica," which was a painting by Pablo Picasso depicting the Nazi bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War.

Link to Zombie's page. Here's a sample of the "artwork"

Little Green Footballs, the source for this item, did an earlier post in April 2005 about the artist.

He told The Associated Press that he became so upset by prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison that he felt compelled to produce works that would graphically depict it.

“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.

Of course, being Berkeley, anything attacking America is welcome.