5. Milk Of Human Weakness II – The Chapman Brothers
This is a particularly gruesome Christmas offering – even for the infamous brothers. The Chapmans continued their theme of anatomical and pornographic grotesquery with this particular work – after their series of mannequins of children, sometimes fused together, with genitalia in place of facial features. Their sculpture Hell (2000) consisted of a large number of miniature figures of Nazis arranged in nine glass cases laid out in the shape of a swastika. In 2003, with a series of works named Insult to Injury, they altered a set of Goya’s etchings by adding funny faces – one of the artists’ favourite motifs is Ronald McDonald on the cross!