Opinions on Damien Hirst?

[Eldritch]

[Inspired by some of Abs's advice threads, thanks :kiss:]

Damien Hirst is in town (http://www.kiasma.fi/index.php?id=2676&L=1).

I find his art at best inconsequential, and at best vulgar and annoying. Yet I'm told I should go, just because I can, and because Hirst is such a huge "star", yadda yadda.

Should I be bullied into attending an art exhibition, simply because the main attraction is supposedly a figure of some consequence?

[The Lawspeaker]

I just hope that he doesn't get any subsidies.

[Beorn]

No poll?

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[Eldritch]

Nah, since this is just a pointless ego-wankerism thread. ;)

Thanks for the video btw, however when the narrator makes the point of originality being more important in modern art than beauty, well, that's probably true, but I don't see the originality in Hirst's art.

[Fortis in Arduis]

The artists are fine, the problem lies with the dealers and their mouthpieces, the art critics, who have made art what it is today.

[Osweo]

If there was a poll, I'd click 'Shite'. He lives near me, actually. My plumber worked in his house - dead rich, so he is, and all from having cows cut in half. :shrug:

[Gamera]

Never heard of him, looked him up and saw his art and I was like "what the hell is that?".

[The Lawspeaker]

Basically.. my opinion of him is: as long as he doesn't soak up tax money who gives a toss ? But his "artwork" is goddamn awful.

[RoyBatty]

Overrated, overpriced. Don't know any of his "works" which qualifies for the "art" tag but then again, I'm no expert.

Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol etc..... not my idea of art.

[Eldritch]

Well I actually went a few days ago, then forgot to post here that I did -- that's unimpressed I was. :coffee:

Next up is Flemish Masters: Baroque Art from Antwerp (http://www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi/en/EXPLORE/EXHIBITIONS/ComingExhibitions/tabid/55/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/134/FLEMISH-MASTERS.aspx). I'll certainly enjoy that one quite a bit more.

http://www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi/Portals/0/images/exhibitions/Flemish%202010/jacob_jordaens-isompi.jpg

[Psychonaut]

Well I actually went a few days ago, then forgot to post here that I did -- that's unimpressed I was. :coffee:

Next up is Flemish Masters: Baroque Art from Antwerp (http://www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi/en/EXPLORE/EXHIBITIONS/ComingExhibitions/tabid/55/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/134/FLEMISH-MASTERS.aspx). I'll certainly enjoy that one quite a bit more.

http://www.sinebrychoffintaidemuseo.fi/Portals/0/images/exhibitions/Flemish%202010/jacob_jordaens-isompi.jpg

I imagine that Flemish Baroque paintings would be an improvement on just about anything. ;)

[Liffrea]

Originally Posted by Eldritch
Thanks for the video btw, however when the narrator makes the point of originality being more important in modern art than beauty, well, that's probably true, but I don't see the originality in Hirst's art.

I think originality is valid, there is no beauty in a Hogarth, yet he was original, and there is a purpose that isn’t just to be vulgar or to shock. I think art can have the quality of beauty and also ugliness, to aspire to and be motivated to wards and away from, perhaps.

This piece below could have been painted well today at least to my uneducated eye, it actually dates from the early 17th century and is by El Greco, I like it, but at the time it was against all artistic convention.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/elgreco.jpg

The problem with much of modern art is that it doesn’t do anything, what is the purpose behind Pollock’s work? To me it looks like an accident at Dulux.

I won’t get started on Tate Modern.

[la bombe]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I like him :shrug:

I've always had a weird interest in medical oddities and such, so I find the preserved animals cool.

[Eldritch]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I like him :shrug:

I've always had a weird interest in medical oddities and such, so I find the preserved animals cool.

In that case you could do worse than check out this blog:

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/