Damien Hirst's Brash Auction

Damien Hirst, known for his pickled shark artwork, is taking all of his work directly to an auction house instead of going through a dealer, Shelia MacVicar reports.

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[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+

[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.

[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.

[whitfield12]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.