GOYA AND THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS

This documentary explores the Chapman Brothers' obsession and fascination with Goya, an 18th Century Spanish painter and print maker, most importantly his 'The Disasters of War' a series of 82 prints showing just how evil humans can be to each other, which the Chapman Brothers have worked with a lot. They have created a series of small toy-looking models of the prints and also worked directly on top of his prints with paint. (both pictured below)

One of my original ideas was to do something similar to what they have done with prints, reusing old illustrations from books like paradise lost or paintings of hell and making them my own by tagging on top of them. It was helpful to see how someone else has done this however I think I will be taking it further than they did (just painting faces on top of already existing faces) and writing messages and essentially defacing the original prints, going back to the idea of tagging as an attempt to become immortal this will contrast the death and suffering that is projected in the images.