Damien Hirst record sale at Sothebys

[capi7al]

his figurative sculptures are trash

[MrMatthewpanda]

i want to kill a human, preserve its body in jelly and sell it as art. i bet i would get alot of money out of it. ~sincerely the animals.

[Armag3ddon182]

its very sad that dead animals which had to die for no damn reason are considered as art.. and its legal(!)... theres something wrong with our society..

[HandsInMyHead]

No free wine & cheese for bums like me then.

[krylonblaza1984]

damien hirst you suck at art you should just kill yourself.

Banksy is a real artist you're old news buddy

[communistrecords]

One nice thing about hirst's work is that it decays rapidly.

[laskolasko]

fuckin rich people...

[Guidemysoulallah]

THIS IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!! he will soon walk this earth

[SkinandSketch]

Got to hand it to him. When asked "Are you an artist or a business man," He said "What do you think, business man." As close to an honest confession as you can get and fairly gutsy I think. If you own one of his works I suggest you sell now. You can make money with money or time but you can't make anything with a rotting corpse, even if it does have the sintilating title, 'the impossibility of death in the mind of someone living'.

[captainfantastic209]

I really can`t believe this,what the hell is wrong with the world..

[headacherack]

I'll just stick to my good old airbrush

[yurifiero]

wow people are truly retarded...who the fuck would waste money on shit like this

[thegreatfearblog]

This is the what you get when you allow the group of nefarious social engineers to take over Culture and turn it into what they want. Culture and Art become nothing but a tool to turn our world into a sea of meanlingless, atheism and indifference. Worse is yet to come...

[mikkoanton]

great

[vitalalive69]

I cant see any art in this mega sale. This looks more like business then art but then a very bad investment hence business decision !

[JeroenUyttendaele]

clever businessman, not so clever artist

[distinct36]

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

[lovesGenet]

art is all these things and more.That cheap phrase does moree harm than good.Art is like religion.Present it.Make them think and asses it.Criterion has changed a little since baroque era.

[marter2006]

So, the more success and money this Hirst guy gets from dead animals, the more he's gonna keep using the dead animals. Thats scary to me...so, does this guy kill these animals and then puts them in a case of formaldehyde and calls it art to thicken his wallet? Thats not art, but animal cruelty.

[gattij1]

If Hirst was noble he would donate money to charity rather than making expensive art with Diamonds. Yea Hirst your too much of a pussy to comment back. There's drought going on everywhere, and you could ease pain but your too pretentious, arrogant, and conniving.

[PineSolSolvent]

Putting dead animals in formaldehyde is the most talented thing ever, you guys.

[tietajajoshua]

you DENYING ROUND BUTTOCK BLUE HOMO.

[Justinian43]

wow i like this guy he has creative ideas just like the man who came up with the body exhibits all around the world.

[Bsupervisorsleeping]

damien hirst is a very good business man. but that's it.

[PineSolSolvent]

Exactly - "modern art" is a disgrace and now serves as something for investors to make a quick buck. Some guy literally made thousands of dollars by selling a can of his own shit. I am not kidding. But perhaps there is a message there - modern art is shit.

[chandru1103]

ART has been a commodity for thousands of years. you want to change that, do something about it! Be proactive. Go out into the world and change things. Youtube comments DO NOT change things, so quitcha bitchin'! And yes, Manzoni sold cans of his shit as a statement that follows alongside your's. The man has the same opinions as you, yet you miss it because of your biases. You truly are an idiot, aren't you?

[jefftotheresque]

Oh wow. I've never heard anyone say something so completely outrageous before. This is a tragedy. Let me guess you probably only like poems that have a rhyme pattern too.

[PineSolSolvent]

People defending modern art calling opposition to modern art a "tragedy" is the epitome of irony. True story.

[PineSolSolvent]

That is also just sad - the mere fact that this stuff continues to be purchased in spite of economic problems just proves that investors think this crap is a good place to place their bets.

Even that Stalinist "socialist realism" art is a highly talented product compared to this nonsense.

[PineSolSolvent]

Modern art is the epitome of a hack job. Such "artists" are no talent cretins that turn art into a joke. And this joke is somehow taken as good coin by investors, evident by the fact that people like Hirst have made millions of of such products.

Art ceases to be art when it becomes a commodity, and nothing proves that point more than Hirst. Art is not supposed to be stupid shit that makes investors rich. True story.

[lloplop]

"art is not supposed to.." those words right there are painfully asinine. You obviously are quite ignorant on the subject of art.

[PineSolSolvent]

You want asinine? Look no further than Damien Hirst. True story. Irony again, eh?

Even hacks under Stalin made better stuff than this. True story.

Now arts serves as a commodity as opposed to trying to express anything in a talented manner.

[anitasseo]

FUCK HIRST, fuck everyone who think animals are on their fuckin service. FUCK YOU.

[bugland23]

Pickled onion? Anyone?

[bugland23]

are his glasses his own creation, if they are, they are rather funny!

[warlockboyburns]

is he the one that cut up a cow and put it in seperate glass compartments?

[jenkins1025]

yes

[GoranDBK]

Damien Hirst is only artist on paper. He is only investor who pays other artists to create something that he will sign. Pathetic

[lloplop]

have you followed art since the 60's??? do only ignorant people make comments on hirst videos?

[PineSolSolvent]

The irony of your comment is overwhelming.

And where did I ever state that the degeneracy that is "modern art" happened yesterday. Nice strawman fallacy.

[ScrapedfromSealings]

Is it degeneracy? Or are you posssibly missing something? No couldn't be that, that would mean dropping your arrogance and opening yourself up. Listen. Culture, as a whole, is growing more shallow ...degenerating. However, the truth is that the complexities of the concepts in Modern Art far outnumber that of the Rennaissance, which was primarily about shallow technical skill and an even more shallow/ futile quest for "ideal" beauty. Sorry but I disagree with you on what is truly "degenerate."

[jefftotheresque]

Unfortunately.

[PineSolSolvent]

I don't recall saying Hirst was the only one doing such things (this video is about his hack jobs). Nice straw man, bro.

But only ignorant people defend Damien Hirst. True story.

[LiMaoTang]

i don't get it... aren't animals more beautiful when alive? their organs and their vascular systems are works of art already.. why not let them function? if they were dead when he stuffed them, death and decomposition is nature's way of expressing the finishing line... "let it be"

[hogge2002]

This kind of art never fails me! Though i'm more of a traditional painting lover hirst has made an unforgetable impression on me with all this mindblowing art...can't get his art out of my head...

[JoeJaz2]

Rather you like Hirst or not, he's made an impression on EVERYONE who's laid eyes on his work. It took me a while to accept his work as art, and not as an abomination.

[meerkat1954]

It is an abomination that threatens ten thousand years of our society's cultural evolution. It's just sick shit that trivializes death and the soul. It has no place other than in a dumpster.

[endgammer]

It's proof of how the value of Millions of dollars isnt much today.

[davidHasselhoff]

I hope other artforms never get this braindead.Damien Hirst is pathetic.

[mjd775]

....Youve got to say fair play to Hirst for extracting this much money fron idiots for rubbish. I wish I had thought of it first. He has as much artistic talent as me, but he leaves me behind when it comes to generating publicity!! Plus he does have a good line of A listers as friends!! Banksy can paint a nice picture though, cant he!!

[drygulched101]

yet more quality bullshit by an twat who calls himself an artist... more like a twat who can't paint and is recovering from years of child abuse....

[mickey1845]

He may be a twat and a commercially driven whore, but he makes way more money than you do, and manages to convince people to pay millions for his shit. And you know what? At least his grammar is better is yours. Are you capable of those things? I don't think so. Go back and cry in your little hugbox.

[endgammer]

Well it's not surprising. These auctions are as far removed from art as is the Grammy Awards is from music. It's absent of excellence.

[drygulched101]

At least his grammar is better is yours... looks like you could do with grammar lessons too.

[eutuve]

"he thinks its art. its bullshit thats what it is... i am a selfish self reghtous idiot "

"...your words.. "

And you want to teach us English ?

[rokitpower5]

sick people this hirst and the people that buy this bullshit i bet they bring it home and jack off to it rich people are all devil worshipers

they had to sell their souls to get their i know fuck their devil gods

no way around it these days

i mean multi bilionairs

[naumanhumayun]

and you're just an insecure fool consciously jealous and resentful of not making those 10 million. of course its a business dumbfuck, and you're a prick who should definitely quit your art.

[billychub]

Sometimes I feel like quitting my art ! When I see the bullshit that goes on! Yes I'll give it Hirst has an engineering ,taxidermist company behind him. 10 million quid , will the art work last? What type of dumb investment is that. A interesting question ..Just proves that today big money is invested in short term art work. Hirst art ? Hockney is right it's what you can get away with! It's a business.

[media1512]

Don't give up, quality will out!

[drygulched101]

you think he's doing it cus he wants to be an artist or he thinks its art. its bullshit thats what it is... i am a selfish self reghtous idiot however if i was a billionaire I would feel pretty shit knowing that i just invested in a piece of stuffed cow that is dead an no good to no one rather than spent 10 million on helping people with real life changing problems... But i guess i live in a bitter and twisted world, well not for long if 2012 has anything to do with it....

[mattsimmons1]

@billychub  agreed