Hitler Defaced #
May 31st, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
Metafilter user Artw explains it better than I can:
Jake and Dinos Chapman have bought a stack of Adolf Hitlers paintings for £115,000 and defaced them with rainbows and butterflies for their new show, “If Hitler Had Been a Hippy, How Happy Would We Be”. The show also recreates “Fucking Hell”, a huge swastika shaped diorama of tiny plastic nazis torturing and killing each other, which had been destroyed in a fire.
An example of their modifications to the painting. I’m honestly unsure if this is an act of historic vandalism or legitmate art.
