Abu Ghraib Haunts Iraqi Artists

Abu Ghraib Haunts Iraqi Artists

IslamOnline.net


BAHDAD, May 1, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Nasir Thamer used to paint scenes of traditional Iraqi life: Arab doors, mosques, the Tigris and Euphrates. But the Abu Ghraib trauma has seeped into his gallery.

“What happened in Abu Ghraib affected all Iraqis in an unspeakable way and as an artist I have to try and express these feelings,” he Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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A faceless painter holding his brush stands next to the picture he has just completed, reproducing a widely-published photograph of a hooded Abu Ghraib detainee.

Another painting depicts an Iraqi child running away from a US Apache combat helicopter towards his mother.

The corner of the canvas where the woman was painted is ripped out, revealing black bars in the structure of the frame.


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