'Art' - and how to take the Piss...

[The Purist]

Hirst admits that some of his artworks are 'silly' - full story at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4389425.stm

[Hoppy]

7 million for a shark in fomaldehyde, now who is taking the p*ss here ?

Hirst must be crying with laughter all the way to the bank.

Makes my blood boil when I see people (tossers) with that much money to waste. They could do some good with it surely, instead of paying idiots like him and that ugly foul mouthed bitch Emin ?

(Rant over, searching for coat rack)

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by Hoppy

Hirst must be crying with laughter all the way to the bank.

Makes my blood boil when I see people (tossers) with that much money to waste.

Don't be fooled mate - a tosser with a lot of money is still, when all is said and done, a tosser. The magnitude of his money/wealth doesn't mitigate or reduce that fact.

[dlegros]

The last section says it all...

Hirst's latest collection, a series of oil paintings called The Elusive Truth, have courted controversy because they were produced largely by his assistants.

"I don't like the idea that it has to be done by the artist, I think it's quite an old fashioned thing," he said.

Sounds more like cashing in on other's talent like me.

As an aside, I just got back from New York and had a little wander round MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).

They have a design gallery there, showing product designs that have made a mark on history, including things such as the iPod and a certain scuba fin...

Dom

[John N]

Following from 'because they say so', did you know that you can't be an artist or produce 'Art' without being a part of an academic institution?
That's how the Royal Academy define Art - you must have had formal training.
i.e.

art is about creativity and self expression. Many people make art, for enjoyment, for therapy etc. Without formal training, this is 'outsider art'

Art is that creativity harnessed by a) the institution (the academy) and b) the gallery space. (the commodification of the produce of the artist i.e. making money from it)

Personally, I think that co-opting an English word for their own purposes, capital letters or not is a bit rich.

[resting rifleman]

If "all the art in all the world isn't worth a good meat and potato pie"(an artist who's name escapes me?) (him who cut off his ear?) does it follow that the army catering corps are a bunch of artists?

[Mr T.]

ICA announces the future of British art - a load of balls
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
(Filed: 27/04/2005)

It is the future of art. . . and, well, it's a big painted ball with black floppy things and a smaller ball made of glass on top.


Christina Mackie's Version 2: Part 1

Last night Version 2: Part 1 won the country's supposedly most cutting-edge art award, the £40,000 Beck's Futures Prize. It is a sort of junior Turner Prize for future talents run by London's avant-garde Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The artist, "installation sculptor" Christina Mackie, born in 1956, initially called it My Depression. It is apparently "reminiscent of a flower bud".

Art critics were not overwhelmed. Waldemar Januszczak of The Sunday Times said Mackie "makes dull installations out of shed materials and beanbags", while Tom Lubbock of The Independent confessed that the work "meant nothing to me at all" - and his paper was the prize's media sponsor.

The contest may not enhance the ICA's reputation either. Billed as "an ideas laboratory", it has been attacked as "a pseuds' leisure centre". Three years ago its chairman Ivan Massow was sacked after he described conceptual art as "craftless tat".

[Mr T.]

Emin gets her thru'ppennies out...nothing to see here people, please move along...


Emin bares her soul in explicit new show
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
(Filed: 27/05/2005)

She never sets out to shock, Tracey Emin declared yesterday as she stood surrounded by some of her most sexually explicit paintings and drawings yet.


Tracey Emin with her exhibition ‘When I think about sex...’

The artist, best known for the dirty bed she entered for the Turner Prize and a tent embroidered with the name of everybody she had slept with, was opening her first major British show for three years.

She said: "I wonder where people's morality or integrity comes from because there is nothing shocking about my work. I do not set out to shock. I set out to have a dialogue with myself."

Her new show at the fashionable White Cube gallery in east London is called "When I think about sex...".

The title says it all. The gallery walls are lined with drawings and paintings of the 42-year-old confessional artist naked.

Emin, who says that she has not had a lover for two years, said yesterday that she wanted a baby but did not want to be a single mother.