I saw the title of this post and I just knew in some way or other it was going to involve the Chapman brothers - Jake and Dinos. In the UK these guys are amongst the most famous artists in the last 50 years, they are part of a group of graduates from Goldsmiths (art college) part of the University of London and known as the Young British Artists or YBA's. Artists like Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst, were made artworld superstars overnight straight out of University by an art exhibition organised in 1997 by the advertising mogul and wife beater Charles Saatchi called Sensation. Sensation was the aim of that show, the more controversy the better. A fair bit of the art has religion, death, drugs, violence and sex as its subject matter. These artist's have made whole careers and absolute fortunes out of producing art with high levels of shock value. Jake Chapman is married to Kate Moss's best friend Rosemary Ferguson.
Observer Newspaper article about the Chapman brothers: (https://observer.com/2012/08/jake-and-dinos-chapmans-hitler-golf-art-offends/)
BBC website article about a list of controversial artworks featuring Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn:(https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171018-the-works-too-scandalous-for-display)
Dazed digital article about Sarah lucas: (https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/25763/15/sarah-lucas-au-naturel)
Art in context website article about Damien Hurst: enter text
I saw the title of this post and I just knew in some way or other it was going to involve the Chapman brothers - Jake and Dinos. In the UK these guys are amongst the most famous artists in the last 50 years, they are part of a group of graduates from Goldsmiths (art college) part of the University of London and known as the Young British Artists or YBA's. Artists like Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst, were made artworld superstars overnight straight out of University by an art exhibition organised in 1997 by the advertising mogul and wife beater Charles Saatchi called Sensation. Sensation was the aim of that show, the more controversy the better. A fair bit of the art has religion, death, drugs, violence and sex as its subject matter. These artist's have made whole careers and absolute fortunes out of producing art with high levels of shock value. Dinos Chapman is married to Kate Moss's best friend Rosemary Ferguson.
Observer Newspaper article about the Chapman brothers: (https://observer.com/2012/08/jake-and-dinos-chapmans-hitler-golf-art-offends/)
BBC website article about a list of controversial artworks featuring Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn:(https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171018-the-works-too-scandalous-for-display)
Dazed digital article about Sarah lucas: (https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/25763/15/sarah-lucas-au-naturel)
Art in context website article about Damien Hurst: enter text