Jake and Dinos Chapman are two of the most talked about young British artists of their generation. Their sculptures often only allow adult viewings. By studying "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and some of their other most famous work, I can see that their ideas contain gruesome, extreme gore and disfigured human bodies, which are cleverly worked together with humour, wit and pleasure. I believe that this is a typical Jake and Dinos Chapman composition, and I am sure that the brothers are using black humour to force us to confront the nastier things in life and question what we really value about art and culture. .
When I first looked at this picture it struck me as tortured, deathly and unhappy. As I started to analyse I felt that this picture expresses the tragic effect on society following the terrorist's attack on America on 11th September 2001, since which there has been violence and bloodshed in various parts of the world including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 and 2003. It shows us that time never stops and the world keeps on turning no matter how devastating events can be. The picture illustrates the Christmas season, which is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, sharing your love and joy with your family and close friends. However, it also reminds us of the time when innocent people were being killed so easily due to war. I think that the masks could symbolise George Bush and Tony Blair as they are always pictured in cartoons and drawings with particularly large ears and mouths or, they could be communicating the process of the death which took many lives in 2003 which is; captured and tied, tortured, and then murdered with dissected bodies.
As I look closer I can see that it is flooded with colours of contemporary Christmas, and the male human bodies are almost disguised as they are wrapped in decorations consisting of baubles, lights, candles, and snow.
I am currently writing a Christmas play for children called "Charlie Brown's Nightmare Before Christmas". Its about a little boy, Charlie Brown, and his friends who get stuck in "Halloweentown" with Jack and Sally and all the people from Halloween town and need to get back home before Christmas. Its a wonderful Christmas story and I am hoping the children will love it. ...
From such classics as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Frankenweenie, Burton knows how to use classic gothic imagery to get his viewer's to "feel" the atmosphere. ... Roger Ebert explains in his 1999 review of the film: "The decapitations may provide the stuff of nightmares, but on a deeper level they also provide a fitting image of humanity's freedom from the shackles of rational thought. ... If the Headless Horseman's elaborate sword swinging becomes somewhat repetitive, and if some of the big action scenes seem like carbon copies from other mov...
The student nurse had been a soothing companion during the 2hr ambulance ride from the comforting homely 4-bed ward of the local maternity unit to the uninviting dimly lit cold surroundings that at this dark hour unnervingly resembled a concentration camp, set out in the wilds no one and nothing for miles, no one to hear the flesh tearing screams unleashed before birth or dawns early light. ... Put her in that side ward she"ll be seen to in the morning, all the Doctors and staff are at the Christmas dinner do. ... Black thunderous cloud-like nightmares fled chased by snarling remains of ...
Creations of the boy's subconscious mind appear in nightmares, they are indefinite, relying on incomplete images of "Pincer and claw, trident and vampire fang-. ... In anguished incomprehension he returns to sleep and again has vivid nightmares. ... "December 25 It's Christmas! Wonderful, magnificent, happy, holy Christmas. ...
If this years hot Christmas toy is Action Jackson and every boy in the world has to have one then the price will be set high enough to make a considerable profit for the supplier and at the same time be set low enough that the consumer is willing to part the set dollar amount so his kid won't be the only one on his block that doesn't have Action Jackson. ... If the price range is out of the question for your particular income then its value is less to you, if your sons happiness and the look on his face on Christmas morning the when he opens the box and finds Action Jackson then ...
To make this a much happier and romantic story, Disney makes sure that the Prince and Princess are in love with each other before they get married or kiss, by making them meet in the forest and harmlessly dance away, while singing quite a catchy little number ("I walked with you, once upon a dream-). ... Some of the Disney company's later films were less moral, since they were not under the supervision of Walt Disney himself, such as the Little Mermaid, which shows a half-naked female mermaid throughout the film, and the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is about evil and the destruction...
Like many parents before mine, and many who do the same for their children after my passage through this world is over, my story is no different from any other story of a boy who grew up in a distant country in South America during a military dictatorship, and a father recently retired after a long and successful military career. ... My father was a distrustful person, with no known friends, but rather surrounded by individuals who could not see him even in their wildest nightmares. ... During my childhood I remember that during Christmas, the only toys that I always found under the tree were...
After Christmas, Maya and Bailey's father appears without notification. ... Before Maya and Bailey had a chance to settle in, Father Bailey announced that he was leaving them behind for a second time. ... Maya starts to have nightmares and Bailey starts to stutter. ... Freeman reminds Maya that she had liked what they did before. Maya tells him they had only been playing before. ...
