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"As the international debate regarding military intervention in Syria rages on, there seems no better or more timely exhibition to see than \"Redacted,\" a show at Maine's Portland Museum of Art featuring 20 paintings by Ahmed Alsoudani, an Iraqi-born artist whose work deals with the atrocities of war.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Untitled,* 2011 \u00A9Ahmed Alsoudani. Photo Courtesy of Haunch of Venison, New York.\n\nThe brightly colored canvases convey surreal scenes of sometimes incredible violence yet are still arrestingly beautiful, evoking works by the likes of Picasso and Francis Bacon. What Alsoudani does most effectively is highlight the disturbing fact that war, when transmitted through the prism of culture and omnipresent media, is ultimately an aesthetic experience. **\n\n*Through December 8, 2013; portlandmuseum.org\n\n*"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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