Wednesday

These pretty vulgar etchings by the Chapman Brothers, looking at the childhood game of "exquisite corpse" and changing the whole concept of the game, making it into a darker game with elements of horror. Each one has something pretty controversial to the piece which makes a mother cover their child's eyes but the way in which these are produced completely draws the viewer to them.



This is through their ridiculous use of detail, no matter how crude they are there is something about them that make you want to look at them more. This is the piece that I first looked at in the Tate Modern, I was in a life drawing class and the brief was to do drawings related to the figure. Truthfully it was the only nice and quiet room hidden away from snotty art friends, while drawing it it took me until the third section to realise it was bunch of willies. ha.

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