Jake & Dinos Chapman

 

Relevance to my work:

The Chapman brothers together create many grotesque representations of war and death through sculpture, installation and drawing. Though I personally have not used the grotesque aspect to the brothers works, I find their bluntness towards the subject refreshing and the use of printmaking in black and white is similar to my own prints.

 

Similarly to the Dutch Still Life artists, the Chapman brothers use imagery of skulls and death to bring about reflection in the viewer to the idea of death and the transience of life through war imagery, inspired by Goya.

 

Though this work is in a similar line to much work that inspires me, the grotesque approach that the Chapman brothers use is not the way in which I intend to approach this same concept.

 

 

 

"Jake and Dinos Chapman make iconoclastic sculpture, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality. The works combine historical, relgious and mythic narrative to present an apocalyptic snapshot of the twentieth-century. Jake and Dinos Chapman believe that the job of a work of art is to raise questions about its terms and conditions."

 

ALL VISUAL ARTS; (2011); Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures; All Visual Arts: London; 169.