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BIRTH OF IDEAS (2002) |
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‘The Birth of Ideas’ illustrates a world of complex monstrosity. Teeming with gratuitous aberrations, two separate masses of proto and sub-organic matter float unanchored, illuminated by a sickly sun. Insanely detailed, the viewer’s eye is drawn into the image, discovering amongst the dense skein fantastical embryonic forms, swirls of tiny insects, entrail-like structures and a number of typical Chapman ‘figures’. Perhaps their most finely worked etching to date, ‘The Birth of Ideas’ takes the medium of hard ground etching to an extreme level.
2002
Edition of 200
Hard ground etching on 300gsm Arches.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse.
Sheet size 52 x 64cm
Plate size 30 x 42cm
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