Jake (b. England 1966) and Dinos (b. England 1962) Chapman are among the best known contemporary British artists working today. First collaborating and working as an artistic duo in the early nineties (forming an integral part of the YBAs – Young British Artists), the Chapman Brothers and their works are well known for their subversive and provocative humour.
The Chapman Brothers first gained attention for their work Disasters of War, a three-dimensional recreation of Goya's series of etchings of the same name, for which they reconstructed Goya's scenes of brutal violence using miniature plastic figurines that they carefully reshaped and painted by hand.