For the Love of God

Damian Hirst
Tooth grinding primeur coming up in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.
And they are proud to present.

One of the fading Dutch Popes of modern Art Rudi Fuchs speaks in superlative terms about this maybe superlative memento mori by British artist Damian Hirst. Describing the work as an unworldly, almost divine skull.
How loveless, empty and obvious can Art be? Or do I really miss some basic understanding?

Visitor statistics will tell how far I stand alone in my prejudiced decision to not go see this.

I think that it should be exhibited, "walking" a bejeweled skeletal poodle to make it even more gauche.

Goede Dag Branny.

Have to agree that is hideous. What a thing to drop in on after a long time away.

Goedenavond Aramis. I hope it will not make you drop out forever.

I guess, it is not so much the fact that it is hideous, but somehow the fact that it is hiding the beauty of the bare skull,
if ye know what I mean. ( I know it's casted in platina )To complete my full and open opinion, it's no more than a shallow thin little idea realized at very high costs.

Quote:Mr. Hirst's recipe was a love-it-or-hate-it cocktail of death, celebrity, sex and technology, heavily spiked with comic self-promotion. The work was at heart about money, or about the love affair between art and money, Warhol's juicy subject. It openly trumpeted its own costly materialism and cheap thrills, in keeping with a certain upbeat and winking strain of pop culture (love the past tense in this)

Tastes differ for sure but ... Oh Art, where is.. ?article

And after all that it isn't even bad art. It's only a cheap copy an expensive copy of someone else's work which makes it just bad plagiarism.
I agree with his mother.

Your aswers are always comforting. As further information I'd like to say that the Rijksmuseum has been in dragging slow restauration for years and seems to bet on the the skull in an effort to regain some of the massive loss of visitor's attention. (scepticism )
This 'World Tour' might begin and end in Amsterdam.

From the linked article:


Perhaps an artist will find subject matter in Hirst' conduct.

>< Perhaps an artist will find subject matter in Hirst' conduct.

Hmm.. ? I'm not sure I understand you very well.

Might be a good thing for the museum, it is the kind of thing that many will come to see for the curiosity value, and the value of the curiosity. "Hey Maudie, says in this here article that they got a diamond skull down at the museum worth 50 million bucks. I gotta see that!"

We'll see if people will still queu for gadgets. (they will)

Hirst's skull, called ``For the Love of God,'' is cast from platinum, encrusted with 8,601 diamonds and has its original teeth, the Rijksmuseum said in a statement on its Web site.

``As an artist I try to make things that people can believe in, that they can relate to, that they can experience,'' Hirst, was quoted as saying in the statement. ``You therefore have to show them as well as possible.''

Take the first anonymous chicken bone and cant'we relate to that?

You are right with your "bad plagiarism". It's all been said and done around the twenties in the 20th Century by the Dada movement a which included all the principes of Art and was by far
more subtle.

Dada
Marcel Duchamp
Picabia
Man Ray