Before: Portraits of Current World Leaders It goes without saying that whoever wrote the song "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" wasn't thinking of Kim Jong Il. Or does it? Painter Amey Matthews may beg to differ. Her portraits of 12 world leaders perfectly illustrate the maxim that everyone was somebody's baby once. Take a look at little Ariel Sharon: Bubbee, you're adorable! And here's baby Bill Clinton, probably waiting to be breast-fed. Can't you just imagine Joseph Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI) playing hide-and-seek with best buddy Tenzin Gyatso (aka His Holiness the Dalai Lama)? How about the infant George W. rolling a ball to a just slightly older Fidel Castro? In a better world, they would all play nice, even as adults... (in Visual Arts)
