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  • British artist Damien Hirst talks about the meaning of his spot paintings, using assistants without talent and having $300 million
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Komentáře • 303

  • @negara54
    @negara54 Před 8 lety +114

    He always seems to be thinking at the back of his mind that he can't believe h'e got away with it for so long. It's as if he wants it to end to relieve the pressure he's been under. He didn't even pass his A level Art for heaven's sake.

    • @negara54
      @negara54 Před 8 lety +11

      A level is not the same as a degree. Check Picasso's talent at aged 12yrs

    • @Lyralye23
      @Lyralye23 Před 2 lety

      @Sir LoungeAlot The term masterpiece is relative. What might be a masterpiece to some could be meaningless to others. So in other words, the best way to increase your chance of being able to make something that most people would consider a masterpiece is to play with the odds. You need to study works that are often considered masterpieces to understand what statistically works the best.

    • @crystal4911
      @crystal4911 Před 2 lety +7

      @Sir LoungeAlot That's ironic because everything you listed is exactly what his art is😂 You consider crappy dots to be masterpieces lmao. Passing A level art actually requires at least a bit of effort and artistic talent, this guy literally pays people to make dots for him which he then makes way too much money from. (Also an A-level isn't a degree, it's basically still high school. Not even being able to pass that shows he really did nothing).

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Před 9 měsíci

      @@negara54 😂🕳️

    • @DamienHirstlive
      @DamienHirstlive Před 2 měsíci

      Thanks for the enormous love and support, I'm truly appreciative of your kind remarks indeed.

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 Před 6 lety +197

    Notice she introduces him as one of the worlds most successful, famous, wealthiest artists.
    Nothing about talent or skill or vision or inspiration.
    Just success fame and money.
    Welcome to what passes these days for art in New York.

    • @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024
      @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024 Před 5 lety

      I would be happy with worlds most successful, famous, wealthiest artists ....No wait i might happen

    • @angeliqueroux3017
      @angeliqueroux3017 Před 5 lety +9

      Which means he knows something talented artists don’t. Being successful in galleries is more about sociology than actual artistic talent, I think. Reading the market & networking with the whales.

    • @mandygenericname1854
      @mandygenericname1854 Před 5 lety

      Strange she doesn't mention the blood on his hands either. Strange how that works.

    • @rocksaltzwidaz3411
      @rocksaltzwidaz3411 Před 4 lety

      you have clearly seen none of his other works

    • @moreodat479
      @moreodat479 Před 4 lety +1

      better than your skills

  • @matildachia
    @matildachia Před 9 lety +96

    HAHA THE INTERVIEWER IS JUST REEKING OF SARCASM !!! love it.

  • @toloupe
    @toloupe Před 10 lety +45

    A bad poet tries to say something important. A good poet hangs out with words.

  • @Dragonion2010
    @Dragonion2010 Před 11 lety +88

    So, it IS possible to be a multimillionaire and a complete loser at the same time :D
    Thanks, Damien; you just made me feel really, really good about myself and realize how awesome it is to be a person with integrity by showing me what the exact opposite looks like! :)

  • @TheBruceAllen
    @TheBruceAllen Před 3 lety +39

    She compared his million dollar skulls to pimp my ride television show. Godliest of compliments.

  • @charliedontsurf1494
    @charliedontsurf1494 Před 10 lety +26

    I've got a question for him. Why are you building an un-wanted extension of Ilfracombe with 700 houses on a field next to the town. We don't need it, and we don't want it.

    • @MrMrWattz
      @MrMrWattz Před 6 lety

      Charlie don't surf I'm pretty certain it wasn't 700 homes

  • @MissPopuri
    @MissPopuri Před 5 lety +9

    New York and Cosmopolitan Elites are the equivalent of an Emperor with New Clothes.

  • @allourep
    @allourep Před 8 lety +56

    The emperor isn't wearing anything

    • @Raphael3032
      @Raphael3032 Před 7 lety +1

      that's the whole point of his work.

    • @daikayll1897
      @daikayll1897 Před 5 lety

      No its not you dope. Thats Banksy. This is daylight robbery.

    • @moreodat479
      @moreodat479 Před 4 lety

      is it not hot topic enough

    • @RagedContinuum
      @RagedContinuum Před 3 dny

      @@Raphael3032 to sell refuse for 100s of millions?

  • @DeleteChris
    @DeleteChris Před 12 lety +5

    In a way i think the spot paintings are about Damien hirst. He knew the reaction they'd get and thats why he made them.

  • @clovismcpony
    @clovismcpony Před 9 lety +61

    Great salesman.

    • @clincpb8903
      @clincpb8903 Před 4 lety +6

      He managed to sold me absolutely nothing !

    • @mariusj34
      @mariusj34 Před 2 lety

      @@clincpb8903 you're not his target audience either, his target audience is millionaire idiots who will eat up anything aslong as the artist says keywords like "love, children starving in africa, diamonds, minimalism" etc. just put some clever words and mix it with tragic real world events, and these millionaires will be forcing this stuff down their throats. So disgusting that we live in a world where real art is always hidden away, and instead we see stupid art made by stupid people all because they are "stupid". The stupidity makes media want to write stories about it, remember no one wants to click on a news article that says "wonderful new art has been made by a new upcoming artist" but everyone will click "These rainbows dots sold for 200m pounds at an auction house". Even the duct taped banana was supposed to be stupid to represent how "stupid" the artworld currently is. Ive said stupid alot now XD

  • @dermapteratenuis
    @dermapteratenuis Před 12 lety +2

    Haah, Ms Luscombe, that was BRILLIANT.

  • @roastedbeans2051
    @roastedbeans2051 Před 3 lety +3

    "red dots mean love" "black dots mean death". sir??! what?

  • @ColeSheltonArt
    @ColeSheltonArt Před 3 lety +4

    Regardless of your opinion of Hirst and his work that interviewer was so disrespectful and rude for no reason.

  • @Jack-pp2ng
    @Jack-pp2ng Před 2 lety +5

    Hirst: anything done super well is art
    I guess he isn't artist

  • @pstotto
    @pstotto Před 5 lety +14

    'You make art from what's around you'... err. Sharks skulls and diamonds? Long Jong Silver, is he? :-) Anyway, from the amount of money he's got, he can just about afford three of my drawings.

    • @pstotto
      @pstotto Před 5 lety

      typo: Long John Silver.

    • @pstotto
      @pstotto Před rokem

      @@peterandrew5169 For every Hirst press space take, a 100 artist suicides and 100 artist's master pieces thrown in the skip by bemused surviving relatives.
      Is that the skulls bit?
      In Italy they settled the actor-projection argument in the 60's by jst having Marcelo Mastriani every film actor role or in France, Gerard Deperdiu, in the music business Ed Sheeran fills the slot of generic busker teen-on-a-guitar average youth and he has a fortune of £100 million and all else to the wall as a strange market notion of rarity where every town and city has a Hirst when rarity is the principal collector hook and value.

  • @Underhills
    @Underhills Před 5 lety +9

    Looks like Phil Collins younger brother.

    • @Celebriedad
      @Celebriedad Před 3 lety

      If Phil Collins brother fell into a pool when he was a baby.

  • @liasisboa
    @liasisboa Před 6 lety +5

    I think she's superb. Challenges him a bit. Most don't .

  • @DanielFontaniniArt
    @DanielFontaniniArt Před 12 lety +3

    yet even when the people hate him, are making others love him

  • @MrLChurchill
    @MrLChurchill Před 6 lety +2

    The spots are done with what looks like a plastic paint that resembled plastic on some women's trainers I bought a couple of years ago and which I thought were deliberately intended to be unattractive. I'm making the point because I wondered if there were some link between the two, if for instance he were criticising a particular designer.

  • @cmknox777
    @cmknox777 Před 9 lety +1

    Yes I have heard of them.

  • @fuadarif4056
    @fuadarif4056 Před 9 lety +16

    Mr Damien can you spare some change to on old lady like me-self. I million maybe??

  • @SuBk.
    @SuBk. Před 5 lety +6

    Hmm, how much animals were harmed during your artwork?

  • @uxnosidda
    @uxnosidda Před 11 lety +1

    Yup, it's the consumers that perpetuate this kind of work. kind of like pop music - no substance (although catchy, and marketed through attractive stars) but tons of demand

  • @Aetila
    @Aetila Před 2 lety +1

    I like his spot painting A better then spot painting B, it has more feeling, lol. I think somebody had to do this, one must have a precison to paint like this and the colors are great.

  • @pommiesniper
    @pommiesniper Před 12 lety +2

    His work is about him making money. His ideas are based on what will make him more money. His work is bought by investors & not so much art collectors, though people who have art collections as an investment buy his work. Money. Simple.

  • @rahxun
    @rahxun Před 11 lety +1

    I honestly think that's a really good idea.

  • @vedros6822
    @vedros6822 Před 8 měsíci

    Superficial interview, you don't need Hirst to answer those questions, all those questions are already answered 100 years ago in art history.

  • @ggindia9896
    @ggindia9896 Před 2 lety

    that tone shift towards the end.

  • @miami05333
    @miami05333 Před 10 lety +7

    4:46 - 4:50 Yeah, OK. :|

  • @rainerbuechse6923
    @rainerbuechse6923 Před 5 měsíci

    I love him and his art. He is a f*cking genius!

  • @ARTByJAMESPATRICK
    @ARTByJAMESPATRICK Před 10 lety +113

    she isn't a very good interviewer

    • @viviennepettigrew2366
      @viviennepettigrew2366 Před 9 lety +30

      Nothing wrong with her interviewing skills, I would say it is the person she is questioning, who can't even give genuine answers who is just making it up as he goes along!

    • @jootsy8886
      @jootsy8886 Před 6 lety +5

      She's sexy.

    • @badfreddytube
      @badfreddytube Před 6 lety

      why do you think that ?

    • @TheS9276
      @TheS9276 Před 4 lety +1

      He paints dots. So they were made for each other.

    • @steviewanda4895
      @steviewanda4895 Před 4 lety +3

      His not a very good artist aswell

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 Před 3 lety

    even tho in theory i hate these dots if i had a chance to see them in a gallery i probably would

  • @MrRealitycheque
    @MrRealitycheque Před 10 lety +65

    horrible insulting reporter, more concerned with insulting damien hirst than actually hearing his side of the story.
    this is tv journalism i guess

    • @johnbrocado1083
      @johnbrocado1083 Před 6 lety

      RubberCement so you like Damien guest because you're on CZcams and many people don't like hjm

    • @johnbrocado1083
      @johnbrocado1083 Před 6 lety

      RubberCement then watch something else

    • @MidnightRambler
      @MidnightRambler Před 5 lety +1

      RubberCement I was impressed that she called him out. This full on bs

  • @svoksis
    @svoksis Před 12 lety +1

    @modernhumble well, there has to be one

  • @jamesday1059
    @jamesday1059 Před 7 lety +1

    This was really insightful.

  • @straitJacketFashion
    @straitJacketFashion Před 12 lety +5

    Whether you respect him as an artist on not, there's no denying his business acumen.
    "His" pieces polarize public opinion, but this have little bearing since his customers are not the mass but the fat cats, who lap it up.
    But their milk turned sour after the bubble burst, yet Hirst came away smiling.
    You may doubt his proficiency as an artist, but he is a master con-artist.

  • @evesapple
    @evesapple Před 11 lety +1

    dont judge by his words. judge by his actions.
    Its easy to say you dont care about money when you've got 300 million in the bank. But what do you think the price tag was on one of those dot paintings?

  • @TheAnimeStop
    @TheAnimeStop Před 12 lety +1

    This is what you call art? You through a bunch of spots on a white frame and you've suddenly made art? My bathroom has spotted wallpaper, so wheres my fame and fortune?
    This guy is the poster child of modern "art".

  • @RitaGehman
    @RitaGehman Před 2 lety +1

    I love when good artists make good money. I think everyone should have business skill.

  • @belignacack
    @belignacack Před 11 lety +1

    that was the point of the YBA's

  • @babblesandbubbles
    @babblesandbubbles Před 12 lety +2

    everyone talks about the skull as if it were merely a thing... shouldn't people be asking WHO that was before it became a piece of artwork?!?

  • @barryryan8267
    @barryryan8267 Před 8 lety +9

    There's only one question; .... Why

    • @superbigidiot
      @superbigidiot Před 8 lety +2

      +Barry Ryan There's a lot of books which try and overcome that question.
      Sorry mate there's no objective answer to anything that abstract, you could probably go to the philosophy section of your local library and find some type of belief system which you wish to subscribe to, but that's the best I can honestly offer.

    • @MultiJebusChrist
      @MultiJebusChrist Před 8 lety +1

      +Barry Ryan There is no why with art this generic and uninspired...

    • @moreodat479
      @moreodat479 Před 4 lety

      @@MultiJebusChrist it´s gorgeous

    • @owofoxy4973
      @owofoxy4973 Před 3 lety

      money. duh.

  • @MsMissymelbourne
    @MsMissymelbourne Před 10 lety +19

    scuse the pun but why put the guy on the spot asking him bout his fortune when it is common knowledge?also she would never have the balls to ask a member of the royal fambly that what you worth question so in essence she is taking the working class boy to task the silly cow

  • @ALi-mc4ve
    @ALi-mc4ve Před 6 lety

    ADMIRAL LORD NELSON
    WHAT A HONOUR.

  • @arildheggelund2824
    @arildheggelund2824 Před 8 lety +11

    Its not the actual piece of art in itself thats essential. Its this great man.

  • @lovehandle3454
    @lovehandle3454 Před 3 lety +2

    I looking at ways to be an successful artist and came across this guy and searched him on yt. Have to say I’m highly disappointed. Thought it was going to be someone with great skill and passion for art but no. I didn’t hear in passion in his voice for his artwork. I know we say “art is subjective” but y’all we need SOME type of standard if people like this are rising to the top for dots

  • @cmknox777
    @cmknox777 Před 10 lety +2

    Brilliant! I love this guys. I can't stand Belinda she's so condescending. None of you know what the fuck your talking abut. You have to have artists like Hurst or there is no art world.

    • @stakemetal
      @stakemetal Před 9 lety +2

      Christopher Knoxdid you have ever heard about leonardo da vinci , michelangelo, caravaggio, monet, picasso?? maybe not. ignorance is bliss. damien hirst is bliss, only for you.

  • @johnlarrazabal7494
    @johnlarrazabal7494 Před 4 lety

    What people missed...was that it was self therapy...how to handle insanity...how to deal with my past...

  • @superscienceshow
    @superscienceshow Před 7 lety +1

    Dali did the spots in the 50's.

    • @heatherrios543
      @heatherrios543 Před rokem

      so no one can ever make spots now? 😅 that's as silly as saying no one can paint a sunset because some artist is 50BC painted a sunset 😅😅😅

  • @P4INKillers
    @P4INKillers Před 11 lety +1

    This guy is a professional troll.

  • @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024
    @JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2024 Před 5 lety +1

    My Art is All About Money it's self & time & YOU can Price my art Yourself 🔘⚪⚫🔴🔵

  • @seandavies467
    @seandavies467 Před 3 lety +4

    He laments a World where there is love 'amazing' and yet there is also the murder of children 'in Africa'. Indeed the World is populated by those who know love and also by far too many with empty hearts. He should be grateful however, it's the self-seekers and sociopaths who have given monetary value and recognition to his vacuous art. In a near-perfect World Hirst would be a bus driver.

  • @jhoan_roa
    @jhoan_roa Před 5 lety +1

    Damien Hirst AND Jhoan Roa ARE MY FAVORITE ARTISTS

    • @bnon360spin4
      @bnon360spin4 Před 4 lety +1

      Roa Arte that’s sad

    • @owofoxy4973
      @owofoxy4973 Před 3 lety +1

      then im sorry to say but you have trash taste for art

  • @AP-ir6sl
    @AP-ir6sl Před 6 lety

    Making it up as he goes you should name him bingo a little spot you buy

  • @DisobedientSpaceWhale
    @DisobedientSpaceWhale Před 4 lety

    He says 'you know' a lot

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Před 8 lety +5

    I've a feeling his worst fear will happen, maybe already...

    • @superbigidiot
      @superbigidiot Před 8 lety +6

      +jaye see Surely the mere fact that you're watching this video is a contradiction to that statement.

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@superbigidiotAre you still alive?

    • @superbigidiot
      @superbigidiot Před 8 měsíci

      @@Johnconno Wtf

  • @sarahgeorgette752
    @sarahgeorgette752 Před 8 lety +3

    The English subtitles are so lame and full of misunderstandings they hardly make any sense. I even suspect that this was done on purpose. Should you need new subtitles, I'd quite happily volunteer.

  • @skeeterhmcr
    @skeeterhmcr Před 9 lety

    I would disagree that anything done well is art. Any conscious action is art.

    • @superbigidiot
      @superbigidiot Před 8 lety +1

      +Duncan M'Gregor So what is art then? Almost every piece of work is different that what it was actually intended primarily to look like.
      Do you not find the visualisation and the representation of the unconscious interesting at all?

  • @PrometheusMonk
    @PrometheusMonk Před 5 lety +2

    This is a rather bad interview. Damien Hirst is actually a quite capable and, at times, even brilliant artist. But perhaps he nailed it when he said that it's hard to make art when you're rich.

  • @munoz6952
    @munoz6952 Před 6 lety

    I just watched the documentary. Someone tell me whats up with the Mickey Mouse sculpture???

  • @wolfumz
    @wolfumz Před 10 lety +1

    I feel kind of sad for hirst when I watch this. He's like a child.

  • @ArtHistoryProfessor
    @ArtHistoryProfessor Před rokem +1

    Whether you like Damien Hirst or not-his boldly creative imprimatura on contemporary art has been monumental since the late 1980s. His work is often viewed as being overtly morbid and obsessively fixated with ideas that solely revolve around death and decay.
    In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, his work examines many of the starker perils and pitfalls of our existence as human beings-chief amongst those are our ongoing compulsive addictions-albeit to prescription drugs and/or the decadent excesses of our insatiable desire to want more of everything.
    Thus, simply put, Damien Hirst reminds us-via his use of adroitly conceptual dialogue-that life and death are, in fact, an inextricably convergent tapestry of sorts. Therefore, through his signature use of controversial objects, e.g., the severed cadavers of dead animals and preserved insects, he forcibly compels us to accept these universal truths that lie at the foundational core of this symbiotic relationship.

  • @MsMissymelbourne
    @MsMissymelbourne Před 10 lety +12

    some people!!!commenting here want their artists to remain poor while they themselves hate being poor surely.who likes being poor?and as for the oh he aint a good painter thing well...he can paint too.he chooses to do other stuff like duchamp ...whats wrong with a floating beach ball .?how is it inferior to a master painting of god and the angels or the king and his wife?

  • @alistairkinnear8737
    @alistairkinnear8737 Před 10 lety

    Hmm, seems to me that he worked hard for what he has, and gets paid well for that.
    I'm not a fan of the midlands and the hardness of those from there, but he seems to break the mold.

  • @mariaeskenasy1358
    @mariaeskenasy1358 Před 12 lety +1

    History will teach you a lesson

  • @G4700
    @G4700 Před 11 lety +4

    If he wasn't as rich people wouldn't be so mad. His work is great. Hes not davinci, but he never said he was. Take artwork for what it is and stop hoping on the hate bandwaggon.

    • @sierra750
      @sierra750 Před 6 lety

      bless you my friend. I agree

  • @bencar8523
    @bencar8523 Před 4 lety

    Can not log in to Snapchat

  • @mjmartinejohn
    @mjmartinejohn Před 12 lety +8

    So. If that woman was interviewing me, I would have told her to ---- off.

  • @pumpkaboo7692
    @pumpkaboo7692 Před 6 lety +2

    Just one thing:
    HAMPARTE

  • @rcronico1
    @rcronico1 Před 11 lety +1

    clearly you didn't listen to the interview

  • @dasbakon
    @dasbakon Před 11 lety +2

    Why?

  • @temperhollow7716
    @temperhollow7716 Před 6 lety

    Blotter Acid Spots

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 Před 6 lety +1

    Let me begin by telling you that when my brother was just starting school, he rebelled at the rules of spelling.
    Why did words have to be spelled in a particular way?
    Why couldn't he spell them as he wanted to spell them?
    He resented the rules and he resisted the authority of those who made them !
    Keep this in mind.
    I think that Conceptual art comes from people who could not and would not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist. Can't master the necessary skills ?
    Can't understand how to use color to create mood?
    Can't master composition?
    Can't draw or understand human anatomy?
    Can't figure out how to express your feelings with image?
    Can't be bothered ?
    Well then, belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art.
    Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do.
    A new genre...conceptual art.
    Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art.
    They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept!
    There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged.
    The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work.
    They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities.
    They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized .
    All of this results in a decline in standards.
    And when you jettison standards, quality suffers.
    There really IS such a thing as BAD art !
    We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated.
    It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea:
    No one has the right or authority to make any judgments about art !
    Art is anything you can get away with !
    A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas.
    Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak".
    ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning! Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable?
    Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened?
    You’re not alone.
    Here are examples of ArtSpeak:
    ''..she manipulates architectural structures in order to deconstruct socially defined spaces and their uses and test novel and playful possibilities."
    Or '
    'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.''
    This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as 'art'.
    But I don't buy it.
    Plenty of other people DO buy it.
    But not because they understand or love the work.
    They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future.
    One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank.
    Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim:
    “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires.
    They desire this equilibrium.
    They desire pre-birth.
    I was giving a definition of life and death.
    This is the eternal.
    This is what life is like, also, after death.
    Aspects of the eternal”
    Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!!
    It sold for $350,000.
    I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it.
    ___________________________________
    Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 50 years.
    Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is called Abstract.
    Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre.
    But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure or principles.
    It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary.
    Something that anyone could do.
    Any composition of blotches or scribbles was “Abstract Art”.
    This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art.
    Art is what I say it is !
    And lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon.
    A tacit agreement forms among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles. Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised .
    Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery.
    And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value.
    The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made.
    And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines !
    This now the state of Contemporary art.
    The love of money is the root of all evil.
    It has corrupted politics.
    It has corrupted sport.
    It has corrupted healthcare.
    It has corrupted religion.
    And now it has corrupted art.
    But, there is reason to hope.
    As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation.
    And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.

  • @mariusj34
    @mariusj34 Před 2 lety +1

    Damien Hirst is a fraud lol
    He has some unique ideas. I kinda like the painted dots, that are supposed to show imperfection by the human hand. It could definitely be better though with some more thought put into it. Seems like something anyone could do for an art project in school. The thousand years artwork, seems more like an experiment you could do for a CZcams video, but he just said "this is art" and ran with it. In my personal opinion he gets credit for more than he actually achieves, and as proof of this i want you to see the hotel room he created which is covered in "More Doug Demuro" 's video "Here's a Tour of the World's Most Expensive Hotel Room ($100K/Night)". When you look at what Damien Hirst has done here he just slapped some of his signature work on the walls and was like "my work here is done" instead of innovating new art. There is litterally medical trash under the kitchen table, which is supposed to resemble the pharmaceutical and medical art he does. Instead it just looks like someone hasn't cleaned the kitchen table for years. The rainbow colours used everywhere makes it look more like a McDonald's playroom than a 100K USD PER NIGHT LUXURY HOTEL ROOM hahahahah. And dont get me started on the pills he has on the walls or the pill packages he assorted in rainbow colours and said "ART!". To me it seems like he created his arts not from random genius thoughts like most artists, but instead he was like "I'm gonna do something that makes me look like a genius artist" and so he took the first ideas that came to his head. The whole hotel room was also just old art pieces and he reused them because he couldnt bother to make new exclusive art for the hotel room even though he was probably paid millions to do it.
    Don't get me wrong, some of his artworks are kind of maybe mildly unique, but the hotel room really shows that he only creates art when its necessary and not because he wants to. To me he seems like a con artist just trying to get by in the art world. Like no real artist (who wants to innovate) would ever do what he did to that hotel room if they were offered the opportunity. Something that would have been more fitting for a hotel room, which would be luxury.

  • @steviewanda4895
    @steviewanda4895 Před 4 lety +1

    I saw Doug Demuro review on a Las vegas suites and the Theme was terrible led me to this artist who designed it I think is very bad. Your paying 100k$ a night and you see polka dots theme shit.

  • @emmanuelalonso8872
    @emmanuelalonso8872 Před 6 lety +1

    its the people who purchase his works that are chumps, and should be asked why

  • @penthouseslamianyc
    @penthouseslamianyc Před 3 lety

    The inspiration and stories behind each piece are always insightful and entertaining to hear from Damien Hirst himself. The stories made me think a little deeper about life, the carnage and chaos that we know as life. Respectfully, Scott

    • @TurkeyCheeseLettuce
      @TurkeyCheeseLettuce Před 3 lety +5

      It’s not that deep. A preschooler can do what he does with much more meaning

    • @bobfruck
      @bobfruck Před 3 lety +3

      @@TurkeyCheeseLettuce exactly damien’s crap is literally NOT ART

    • @TurkeyCheeseLettuce
      @TurkeyCheeseLettuce Před 3 lety

      @@bobfruck I mean I wouldn’t say that it’s not art, it’s just not art worth millions of dollars

    • @bobfruck
      @bobfruck Před 3 lety

      @@TurkeyCheeseLettuce yeah, it's worth like less than a hundred at most.

    • @TurkeyCheeseLettuce
      @TurkeyCheeseLettuce Před 3 lety +1

      @@bobfruck anything above 7.50$ is wayyy too generous

  • @artbysvkart2624
    @artbysvkart2624 Před 5 lety

    Here get Santandersy in kerching

  • @JohnSmith-su3ze
    @JohnSmith-su3ze Před 5 lety +4

    Asking someone their net worth is incredibly rude.
    Why does these media scumbags think they can ask people rude questions like that?

  • @viciouscircle7802
    @viciouscircle7802 Před 10 měsíci

    I reckon hes prime position for pimp my skull❤

  • @Flowmotion1000
    @Flowmotion1000 Před 10 lety +1

    I dislike the way contemporary artists colonise an idea - usually someone else's idea. The dots are originally from scientific manuals and the spin paintings are obviously from funfairs.

  • @LondonDada
    @LondonDada Před 11 lety +2

    Shows there's hope for brickies and decorators to make a living in art - if that's not too much of an insult to brickies and decorators?
    The system's totally bent, DH merely one of its instruments (of torture, lol).
    Money for old rope - we'd all do it in his place for sure.
    Good luck to the guy..

  • @raulhenriquez3591
    @raulhenriquez3591 Před 5 lety +1

    Artist? It is much to say.

  • @oscarmaoricio1365
    @oscarmaoricio1365 Před 2 měsíci

    Habla cañon como Pete Doherty 😮

  • @benderrodriguez5934
    @benderrodriguez5934 Před 5 lety +1

    #hamparte

  • @ambrose7196
    @ambrose7196 Před 3 lety +3

    The thing about art is that you need context to understand the underlying theme below the surface.
    Piet Mondrian, Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, two conceptual artists that when I first saw their art, thought it was rubbish but after understanding the motivations, realised they may have been onto something. Perhaps the true exceptions to the rubbish that has plagued the 'art is in the eye of the beholder' that has ruined aesthetics over the conceptual.
    But the thing is, conceptual art is important. It's just that so much dadaism is rubbish and so much contemporary conceptual artists try to replicate the genius Kandinsky and Duchamp did and end up ruining art.
    Damien Hirst, from this comment section seems to be hated on because of the assumption that he put no effort into his art and all he did was paint dots.
    But in truth, Jackson Pollock is the true garbage who put no effort. Damien Hirst on the other hand, I'm trynna say, he DOES put in thought to his conceptual art.
    See- his first couple works on the dot paintings were painted by hand using a compass and tools to exemplify the imperfections the human touch imprints onto a painting. With the precision of machinery that are able to produce perfect dots, Hirst's man-made dots were full of imperfections, cracks and brush strokes observed in the white surrounding and dots. The concept of the human touch of imperfection possessing a sense of perfection can be observed in his later life with the mass-manufacturing of these perfect dots with machines that essentially devoid the later dot paintings of the original purpose that kinda backfired on itself, kinda ironic.
    His other works follow the theme of death. Same theme of death, different mediums to explain the same thing.
    I'm too lazy to explain the analysis behind his other messed up works but his installations are really all about life and death. We eat animals but we somehow can't confront the butchering of the animals. So... a work like 'Mother and Child (Divided)' allows you to walk past the rotting corpse stored in formaldehyde solution as an introspective piece. Another piece from afar, looks aesthetically pleasing, real beautiful. Look closer and you realise that the patterns that construct the piece is made of innumerous butterfly wings. So many butterfly wings. The dude really killed alot of animals.
    Trust me though, it's not just animal cruelty. There's a purpose behind it but go ahead and research 'A thousand years' the art work by him to 'get' him.
    Personally, I like his art. Similar to Francis Bacon and really quite fascinating.
    His works are conceptual art so... if you dont get what he's doing, just google it.

    • @sahilagarwal6601
      @sahilagarwal6601 Před 2 lety +1

      at least jackson pollock's paintings look good from far.

    • @mariusj34
      @mariusj34 Před 2 lety

      Definitely not an icon of an era, but he has some unique ideas. I kinda like the painted dots, that are supposed to show imperfection by the human hand. I hated when he was being so cheesy with the "red means danger, white is purity, black is death" JUST EW. That was way too cheesy. It could definitely be better though with some more thought put into it. Seems like something anyone could do for an art project in school. The thousand years artwork, seems more like an experiment you could do for a CZcams video, but he just said "this is art" and ran with it. In my personal opinion he gets credit for more than he actually achieves, and as proof of this i want you to see the hotel room he created which is covered in "More Doug Demuro" 's video "Here's a Tour of the World's Most Expensive Hotel Room ($100K/Night)". When you look at what Damien Hirst has done here he just slapped some of his signature work on the walls and was like "my work here is done" instead of innovating new art. There is litterally medical trash under the kitchen table, which is supposed to resemble the pharmaceutical and medical art he does. Instead it just looks like someone hasn't cleaned the kitchen table for years. The rainbow colours used everywhere makes it look more like a McDonald's playroom than a 100K USD PER NIGHT LUXURY HOTEL ROOM hahahahah. And dont get me started on the pills he has on the walls or the pill packages he assorted in rainbow colours and said "ART!". To me it seems like he created his arts not from random genius thoughts like most artists, but instead he was like "I'm gonna do something that makes me look like a genius artist" and so he took the first ideas that came to his head. The whole hotel room was also just old art pieces and he reused them because he couldnt bother to make new exclusive art for the hotel room even though he was probably paid millions to do it.
      Don't get me wrong, some of his artworks are kind of maybe mildly unique, but the hotel room really shows that he only creates art when its necessary and not because he wants to. To me he seems like a con artist just trying to get by in the art world. Like no real artist (who wants to innovate) would ever do what he did to that hotel room if they were offered the opportunity. Something that would have been more fitting for a hotel room, which would be luxury.

  • @alistairkinnear8737
    @alistairkinnear8737 Před 10 lety

    and your opinion is?

  • @MrSebboxxx
    @MrSebboxxx Před 10 lety +4

    Is he a charlatan or not ?

  • @linuszimmermann6120
    @linuszimmermann6120 Před 4 lety +1

    Great Artist!!!

  • @sahilagarwal6601
    @sahilagarwal6601 Před 2 lety +2

    i have never been to an art school. nor do i draw to sell or stream. but i know for a fact that i could draw better than him.

  • @devonhughes3805
    @devonhughes3805 Před 3 lety

    God I feel like I lost brain cells watching this exchange

    • @owofoxy4973
      @owofoxy4973 Před 3 lety

      haha not me though. i already had no brain cells to begin with.

  • @tracyartstylepaintingsston25

    Why do do spots

  • @reuben8912
    @reuben8912 Před 3 lety

    Completely anti Hirst biased but better than nothing

  • @jackchorn
    @jackchorn Před 8 lety +3

    most wealthiest- Bwahahahahahhahahhhahhahhahhahhhahhhahahhhahhaahhahaaa

  • @blakebell2612
    @blakebell2612 Před 6 lety +1

    And then we are and then an end and we do this and art and then and then that I started it and then then then and and and and we do this over here I didn't know this is my feelings towards la la la so things are things Ellen and I are in my preciation and lalalalala

  • @eeeyyyeee
    @eeeyyyeee Před 8 lety +2

    I think this is the second video by this "reporter-at-large," I've seen, and I must say, I don't understand how a reputable corporation like TIME could distribute such videos. This interview is terrible. Why is she so focused on the money, and how is she getting away with being subtly antagonizing during these interviews. She clearly thinks it's ridiculous how much art is worth to the public, and she clearly doesn't think contemporary art, is art. So what's the point?

  • @timothyhill1149
    @timothyhill1149 Před 7 lety +1

    maths lol

  • @AP-ir6sl
    @AP-ir6sl Před 6 lety

    When he created his own Works they were phenomenal but now no good

  • @daikayll1897
    @daikayll1897 Před 5 lety

    Why not ask the artist who's idea it was in the first place to paint spots like that !!!!!!!!!! Oh, and the spinning ones. The spatckcocked animal and the pharmacy one ! All original ideas,produced and shown by other artists. The butterfly designs another. Checkout " The art Damien Hirst stole" on youtube. You'll be closer to the truth then.