Jake and Dinos Chapman
Chapman Brothers (this is about Jake)
Jake and Dinos Chapman was born 1966 BirthCheltenham, England.
Categories: Installation art BritArt
Find Jake and Dinos Chapman books.
Documents of modern & contemporary art.
Market value of Jake and Dinos Chapman works
Auction information for you to know the prices of Chapman's art works. artprice
Jake and Dinos Chapman are certainly the most talked about young artists in Britain. Provocative and extreme, the Chapmans use humour and pleasure as weapons in their irreverant exploration of taboos.
…The Chapmans first rose to prominence in the early 1990s with their three-dimensional recreations of Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War. These depict atrocious acts of violence, carefully and playfully reconstructed with miniature and life-size figures…
“The job of a work of art is to raise questions about its terms and conditions,” said Jake Chapman in an interview with Time Out London. “That’s what we do. We present the viewer with a puzzle. We put an injunction on speedy consumption, by refusing to offer a straightforward aesthetic experience. And to defend the integrity of the work, we produce a bit of turbulence that makes it more than a simple sip – of art.”
find art prints & posters of Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman (or about) on YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Blogs | Images | Forums | News
To improve the information about the artist or to add comment, log in or sign up for a free account.
art book recommendations |
||||||||
 |
Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
|||||||
 |
South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
|||||||
 |
James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
|||||||
|
||||||||
Add your comment, review or link about the artist.