Damien Hirst's Brash Auction

[hideouschud]

@whitfield12... Ha Ha ha.

[hideouschud]

@ whitfield12 ... Ha Ha HA.

[sleepcity]

A complete and utter fraud. Even less substance than Warhol, which is saying a lot. I hope the art market continues to crash and every brainless parvenu who bought this crap gets burned.

[telecake]

Actually I think Hirst is a much better "artist" than let's say Jeff Koons or Richard Prince. I especially intrigue by his work "A thousand years" The main problem of him is he's GREEDY. He care too much about the money. But how can you blame him if it's so much money! Also, if an artist treating the art making process like a souvenir production factory and he acted like the supervisor of that factory where he's done zero of the actual work himself, then they become merchandises, not art.

[telecake]

@telecake But one thing that can be sure is that he's a good opportunist and businessman. The timing of his selling of his "art" just almost right before the whole financial turmoil of the world. I think he is laughing so hard now for selling all these stuff to all those ignorant silly rich people now

[telecake]

@telecake also the dots painting are just rediculous. Frankly I can understand for those stuffed animal works you need assistants to help you for the work, but I think a painter should do the painting all by him/herself in most caes or that's not your freaking painting! Why would anyone wanna buy those dots painting for that kind of price is beyond me.

[marlboroman1985]

Anyone interested or even put off by Hirst should take a look at Duchamp's work. He pretty much revolutionized art, both opening the door to artists like Hirst and at the same time taking a pretty sharp jab at the pretensions of artists like Hirst and the rich people who like to look sophisticated by buying avant-guarde art. He then quit art and became a professional chessplayer, staying true to his artistic priniciples, not stooping to ridiculous gags when he nothing left to say. My hero.

[invadercheeze]

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. He realizes that his art is hackneyed and boring. He knows he's repeating and recreating his old artwork. He understands this and is making a huge statement on the "anybody can do it" nature of conceptual art and ridiculous prices in the art market by selling these pieces for such insane pricetags. All of these uppity art critics and dealers are none the wiser, and Damien is laughing all the way to the bank.

[babybear1000]

what is the correct art anyway=)

[liz2porter]

Conceptual art is not for everyone, but it is very popular.

There are people who are willing to pay 12 million for it.

So who's the 'moron' in this instance?

[TheListerbo]

How about pickling this moron? That would sell....any offers for my idea? 

[distinct36]

it is the responsibility of every artist to shine a light on the inadequacies of their epoch

[nox7nox7]

SPERO FACCIA LA STESSA FINE!

[tommynicks]

He's an absolute hack, I had to write a 12 page paper in college about how much I hated his work and how it's not art, I got an A+

[websuspect]

@tommynicks Dood considering how our schools are run by these hacks Im surprised they didnt give you a D . GOod job.

[tommynicks]

@websuspect Thanks buddy.

[Avian98X]

@tommynicks

why? i think his work is awesome.

[tommynicks]

@Avian98X Because he's not an artist, he's just a fruitcake who puts dead animals in formaldehyde and his elitist friends called it art so he was able to get a career. Most of his work is completely ripped off especially from Eddie Saunders and a legion of deserving artists and critics absolutely hate him.

[Avian98X]

@tommynicks

?meh

[Neurozumim]

@tommynicks It's not because it's bad art or you don't like it that it's not art. These objects exist, and there is an overall message to this, at least when Damien started and wasn't making money. There was a reason then that wasn't about "I'm going to be rich". It was a fascination with death and the ephemerality of desire and beauty. Entropy. Hirst undertands very well that his work will return to dust some day. It's all about that, mirroring our desires with entropy.

[HookedMasai]

@tommynicks They forced you to write a paper on why you hate him? Plus getting an A+ doesn't mean your right, just means you argued you point, and there was a lot of validity to it because of your reasoning.

A lot of people won't get it, in a sense it's not art, but it is because it makes a mockery of art. It may not be an art that you except, but it is art none the less, if its made by an artist and displayed in a gallery.

Who's to say what is and what isn't? Look at Futurism.

[whitfield12]

@tommynicks did your mommy put it on the fridge next to your bad drawing?

[nycrtst33]

Art is about manipulating the paint onto a canvas not about decorating dead animals,Keith Haring NOW THAT'S ART>

[bugland23]

Get yourself a jar of rollmop herrings, get yourself a felt-tip and write Damien Hirst on the lable. Display in pride of place in your lounge or living room and bingo you've got a Damien Hirst in your living room. It will make a great conversation piece.

[door2yourheart]

This semi literate twat should slice himself in half, then get some one who can spell to make a label for it saying "CUNT"!

Hirst has done absolutely nothing to change anybodys ideas about anything at all! Its all been done before, but far more eloquently! The content of his work is almost non existent and so predictable. He is merely a cash cow for bourgeois, pretentious art industry entrepreneurs. They see him as a quaint, naive life form, exemplifying an existence that is other to their own

[xwsftassell]

D.H. Is an unremarkable, bog standard PSYCHOPATHIC TRASH PERSON who should go back to school, learn how to paint, learn how to think, & learn how to feel. His adherents & apologists are PONERISED PSYCHOPATHIC TRASH PERSONS who know the price of everything & the value of nothing, no point expecting them to either, because TRASH IS TRASH.

[chandru1103]

First comment. Well this "branding" really is the artistic gesture here. The art is the fact that he is making the same things. Warhol did the same thing and it just shows that humans just love more of the same.

[RedMudPainter]

Well, maybe it could also mean that humans like dead sharks.Damn, why can't I make Dead Shark Art!

[chandru1103]

agreed.