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  1. Jake & Dinos Chapman • The Life and Works of Jake & Dinos Chapman. Jake & Dinos Chapman. Shop. Works. The Sum of All Evil. 2012 XXXXX. Jackie & Denise Chapwoman. New Work, Modern Art, London. 2001.

    • Disasters of War

      The same thing only smaller, or the same size but a long way...

    • Mixed Media

      When the world ends, there’ll be no more air. That’s why...

    • Wigs and Trainers

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      Isn’t this great? The salty sea air! The wind blowing in...

    • Jake & Dinos Chapman

      The Life and Works of Jake & Dinos Chapman. Disasters of War...

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    Known as Les Enfants Terribles of the British art scene, Dinos and Jake Chapman have been working collaboratively to produce deliberately shocking artwork for the last 30 years. After being employed as assistants to Gilbert and George, the pair found fame as part of the Young British Artists in the 1990s. Along with Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, th...

    Many of the brothers' works have their basis in the art of others, of particular inspiration are the etchings of Goya, which the Chapmans recreated in miniature in Disasters of War (1993) and as a...
    The Chapmans are known for their incredible attention to detail and this is most noticeable in their miniature apocalyptic landscapes, Hell (2000) and its later recreation Fucking Hell(2008). In th...
    References to the pervasiveness of brand names, consumerism, and globalization feature in much of the Chapmans's work. Sometimes this is overt as in The Chapman Family Collection(2002), in which Ro...
    Along with other members of the YBAs, the Chapmans's work was often gleefully tasteless and the brothers seemed to set out explore the topics most likely to cause offence, relishing the controversy...

    Childhood

    Iakovos (Jake) was born in London in 1962 and Konstantinos (Dinos) in Cheltenham four years later. Their father was an English art teacher whilst their mother was a Greek Cypriot. The family then moved to Hastings, Sussex, on England's south coast, where the boys attended a local school. The brothers have been reluctant to talk at any length about their upbringing, but Jake described the "odd characters" that lurked about the seaside town, and "a place on the railway where decapitated bodies...

    Education and Early Training

    After leaving school, Dinos studied at the Ravensbourne College of Art (1980-83) and Jake at the North East London Polytechnic (1985-88). The brothers decided to work together in 1988 and enrolled as a pair at London's Royal College of Art, which they described variously as "shit", "a complete waste of time", and "full of people tickling oil paint around". During this time, they also worked as assistants to the British artists Gilbert and George, a role Jake described as having: "absolutely n...

    Mature Period

    In 2003 the Chapmans held a show at Modern Art Oxford called The Rape of Creativity. At this they displayed a range of pieces including Insult to Injury, a series of original etchings by Goya which they "rectified" by adding clown and puppy heads to all the victims depicted. The pair received a 2003 Turner Prize nomination (Britain's foremost contemporary art award) for their work. Their Turner Prize exhibit included Insult to Injury alongside new works Sex I, a sculpture of decaying and dism...

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    • Dinos Chapman-London, Jake Chapman-Cheltenham
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  3. 146 Artworks: Jake & Dinos Chapman. I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago I, 2010. Pinto Gallery. US$2,450. Jake & Dinos Chapman. Politikalprints, 2016. Art Republic. £780.

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  4. Jake and Dinos Chapman. Iakovos " Jake " Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos " Dinos " Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, previously known as the Chapman Brothers. Their art explores deliberately shocking subject matters; for instance, in 2008, they produced a series of works that appropriated original watercolours by Adolf Hitler ...

  5. Born Iakovos (Jake) Chapman in 1966 in Cheltenham, England and Konstantinos (Dinos) Chapman in 1962 in London, England, the Chapman brothers went on to study art. Dinos studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and Jake at North East London Polytechnic; they both attended the Royal College of Art for their master’s degree.

  6. Mar 13, 2024 · Jake Chapman was born in 1966 and studied at the North East London Polytechnic, while Dinos Chapman, born in 1962, attended Ravensbourne College of Art. Both brothers furthered their education at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1990.

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