Interview with Jake and Dinos Chapman
Published in Journal of Contemporary Art. Link Here
Keys:
The uncanny - "when the terrifying the familiar overlap"
clones - the "horrible standardization"
The bodily creation as an "organism"
what is the "rude" aesthetic?
efflorescence, excess
note: after their initial introduction, Jake and Dino Chapman are attributed as simply "Chapman." Have they morphed into an art making/speaking creature? Who is speaking? The artists, their artistic philosphy? Their cheekiness?
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(Oh no sir, we're not making terrible paintings of children. They're organisms.)
"The circumvention of realistic representation with the aid of irrational details or disturbing moments in your representations reminds me of the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites and the strange quality that often underlies the bizarre depictions of, say, Ford Maddox Brown."
It's strange to read the interviewer's comparison, because pre-raphaelite paintings are so beautiful, while Jake and Dinos Chapman's works... are hideously grotesque to the point where I don't want to look at them. Perhaps in ideas they are the same, but it's interesting that they have such a different look.
The interview itself seemed grotesque- sentences twisted into jargon that moronic me could not grasp.
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