@jobandmoby Nerdrum is a brilliant painter. Plain and simple. And it's terrible that he is going to have to go two years in prison without painting, but this interview seems contrived. Good intentions, though.
Hirst can do what he wants. But I have heard that argument about the employment of assistants so many times and it bothers me. If assistants were used by old masters they were on mundane tasks where the work was trivial. A concept is a seed. That is it. It's in the evolution of the work, the man...
@jobandmoby Nerdrum is a brilliant painter. Plain and simple. And it's terrible that he is going to have to go two years in prison without painting, but this interview seems contrived. Good intentions, though.