Tim Hawkinson v. Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare and Tim Hawkinson have very different styles when it comes to their views on the body. Shonibare tends to go for the more literalistic representation of the body, while Hawkinson likes the more imaginative representation of the body. Tim Hawkinson really likes to imagine his own body in different or more ideal ways and then recreate his image in sculpture. Yinka Shonibare likes to comment on race and culture through his works by using bright fabric that looks,as he puts it, has been Africanized. He really likes to recreate famous paintings with headless dummies and also makes himself the center of his paintings. He specializes in painting, sculpture, photography, film, and performance, where as Tim Hawkinson specializes in mainly sculpture. Hawkinson is fascinated with music and notation as well and makes extremely complex sculptural systems. He pays extreme attention to detail and is also obsessed with life, death, and the passage of time.
I think that both of these artists are great, however I tend to prefer Tim Hawkinson's work over Yinka Shonibare because of the fact that it is more conceptual in nature and makes people think more about what the artist is trying to say rather than what the art necessarily shows in his work. I really like the way that the artists contrast to each other, however they are extremely similar in the nature of their artwork. I think that it is great how they differ in materials, but they are very similar in the messages that they want their artwork to present to the viewers.