Damien Hirst...art or arse

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I thought I hated Damien Hirst....but now im not so sure...the more i read the more i like. I love to read what he says about his own work. However i wonder if his art is too inaccessible to the average person. There is something to be said about alienating the viewer....

― lady ketchup, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I dont know about "average person" but the art of his I've seen I've found almost too accessible - his sense of design is so strong that almost all his stuff (that I know) works as eye candy and it takes quite an effort to then engage the brain and try to work out what if anything is going on beyond that. Whether that's a good think or not I don't know.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1: those are not opposites
2: it's not his job to "analyse" his work, it's ours/yours

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Part of D. Hirst's "work" is what he says about his own work, imo.

― Tim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah sorry i am mentally exhausted as it is pressweek: DH's job = whatever he wants it to be, but not "job of artist" of necessity to do that kind of stuff

we are artists also: this [waves hands vaguely] = art

― mark s, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

I generally prefer it when artists shut up, as it happens, and let [us] decide. So I usually approach artists' commentary about their work in much the same way as I approach an interview with a musician in a magazine: these people are fools or liars or both.

Very keen to hear Keith Tyson on the subject of the Random Tangler at the South London next month though.

― Tim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish people talking about British modern (I'm funny about the word contemporary and refuse to let 'modern' be ossified) art wouldn't always go on about Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst so much. They are the U2 and R.E.M. of the art scene.

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think people should talk about whatever they want to, and there's a lot to say about the likes of Hirst & Emin. I also wish people would talk more about other contemporary artists, but that's sort of up to them.

What other doomed linguistic projects do you have on the go, N.?

― Tim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big ol' naked emperor.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arse, like U2 and REM.

Sharks in formaldyhede is just soo butcher shop.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the reason i am "going on" about Damien Hirst is because hes the only artist im having a problem deciding about at the moment.and yes i too have felt that its a case of the emperors new clothes....and the reason im posting this is because im irish and we're not totally consumed by popular brit art the way a person living in britain might be....therefore its hard to find someone interested enough in his work to have a debate with. We could have a conversation about anthony gormley, andy goldswothy, mainie jellet, dorothy cross, janine antoni, mo jupp, bill viola etc etc etc .........

― lady ketchup, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurst's involvement w/ such goons as Dave Stewart, Alex James, Keith Allen, Gordon Burn etc. does not inspire much confidence in his 'critical' abilities...

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ignore what I said. I was being an arse.

― N., Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I went to see Ina Gadda Da Vida yesterday. What a great show. Hirst is not only a great artist, he's also a fine curator. The show is not overloaded and it all hangs well together. Well done for mentioning butcher's shops upthread, by the way - prescient! To say that Hirst and Emin are U2 and REM may be apt in terms of making it big, but Hirst retains the capacity to shock, even if the media are used to it. The butterflies are great, the medicine cabinet is stunning, the fly-pizza is breathtakingly horrible.

― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

his new paintings at the gaogisin are really really weak and obv. at least in reproduction...its like all of the theory, and most of the formal skill leaked out when he got happy and quite drinking. (or he could sell out a show in an hour, making 20m in the process)

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

wait what?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01493/Damien-Hirst-The-C_1493955i.jpg

― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 8 November 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

boxed unicorn, duh

― CharlieS, Sunday, 8 November 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

The 2009 Sunday Times Rich List:
Damien Hirst £235m Up £35m
Lord Saatchi and Charles Saatchi £120m Down £25m

I only hope that some of the wealth transfer from investment bankers and advertising executives trickles elsewhere within the art world, though it seems to have mainly funded conspicuous consumption. David Černý has taken Hirst's game and run farther, with a good deal more humor:

http://www.city-journal.org/assets/images/18_2-bb.jpg

― Deliquescing (Derelict), Sunday, 8 November 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

Old news:
http://www.ukstreetart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Policeposter-450x636.jpg

Police also arrested Cartrain's 49-year-old father, who they suspected of harbouring the pencils. "Initially, we arrested his dad but it soon became clear that it was his son who was responsible," said a police source.

― Deliquescing (Derelict), Sunday, 8 November 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

i'd love to challop u all to the moon and say his paintings are alrightish, but they're not.

― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 8 November 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

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