Hell Burns Down

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One doesn't intend to make a habit of using these article pictures, but this was one not to be resisted, so dark and haunting. The picture is a section of an art piece called Hell, "which depicted the Apocalypse with 10,000 tiny plastic and tin figures, individually cast and hand-painted and configured in the shape of a giant swastika. Some were skeletons, some were body parts, others were mutilated figures and Nazi soldiers. Art critics had called it the Chapmans' most important work."



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Hell Burns Down

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One doesn't intend to make a habit of using these article pictures, but this was one not to be resisted, so dark and haunting. The picture is a section of an art piece called Hell, "which depicted the Apocalypse with 10,000 tiny plastic and tin figures, individually cast and hand-painted and configured in the shape of a giant swastika. Some were skeletons, some were body parts, others were mutilated figures and Nazi soldiers. Art critics had called it the Chapmans' most important work."



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