From the Art News Blog:

This article was interesting to me because of its controversial subject matter.  The Chapman brothers have done this before, essentially what others would call defacement, by adding smiley faces to Goya etchings.  I guess I’m ok with them doing this to Hitler’s paintings; I can see the point they are making.  However, its not cool with me that they messed with the Goya etchings - what’s next?  Putting a unicorn into Van Gogh’s Starry Night?  Let me know what you think.

Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman have added some psychodelic rainbows and and hearts to their Adolf Hitler paintings that they bought at auction for £115,000 and are now selling them for £685,000. The paintings which will be sold as one work is called “If Hitler had been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be”

He hoped the defacement of Hitler’s work, which includes landscapes, vistas of Roman ruins and still life, which the dictator painted when he was young, would have him “spinning”. The changes they had added meant it was no longer Hitler’s work, he added.

“If hell exists and Hitler exists in it, he would be spinning if he saw these. It’s not his work any more. It’s our work,” he said. Independent

The Chapman brothers’ exhibition can be seen at the White Cube Gallery in London.