'11 Sausages' ...Yeah...
Here's a video blog I made expressing my thoughts on Hirst's work.
And here's a painfully relevant article on the subject of 'modern art' which wittily sums up a great deal of my views. Go read:
http://www.vice.com/read/i-dont-get-art
For those of you who're interested, here's a documentary about him on 4OD. But personally I think it just further emphasises how two-dimensional he is: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/damien-hirst/4od
The problem is he never explains why he makes any of it, and even admits to just finding stuff he didn't even make himself and wanting to shove it into a gallery, only afterwards realising he has to have an 'excuse' to do that. That's not how art works. Surely the idea or inspiration should come before, if not at least simultaneously during the making of, the art?
And when he does explain the meaning of a couple of his pieces, the ideas are always totally unoriginal or vague bollocks or obvious and banal, and certainly shouldn't be sold for £millions.
Also VERY confused as to why he thinks 'all art is optimistic'. That's just attention-seekingly provocative crap, and not even true of some of his own art.
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