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THE SUM OF ALL EVIL

Jake & Dinos Chapman brothers, I also mentioned the strong individualistic works "the sum of all evil" in my Arc, they created a lot of works which make people feel depressed and fear, because the purpose of their works is to fight the concept that 'Art is beautiful and derived from the idealism'. Their small sculpture groups generally take war as the theme. The huge quantity and delicate details make people deeply feel the author’s dark and depressed mood. In fact, I find for myself, I like to enjoy and appreciate the details, because the details can clearly show the author's mind, and the human emotions itself is delicate, if you want show all the mind as much as possible, it is doomed to need a lot of details to interpret it.

Jake & Dinos brothers like to show their works in a contrasting way, such as the sum of all evil. The entire work uses Ronald McDonald and Nazi soldiers as the main bodies, seems to take the impact of the Nazi devilry and the capitalists' universalization as creation thesis, and treats the brand as cultural erosion from the Nazi perspective. Perhaps directly compare the damage of the Nazi and worldwide brand to the world, this straightforward irony is also particularly conspicuous in the art world. Such works are not necessarily accepted by all the people, but it expresses a certain complaint of the author, which is also crucial for a work of art. Just as everyone in the world, he has his own character, tries to clarify his own personality, so that make the world more abundant. In the context of economic globalization, more and more people follow the same trend and imitate the actions of others, at this moment, maintain their own personality and characteristics become quite crucial.

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