28 11 / 2011
Damien Hirst Faces Eight New Claims of Plagiarism - “Charles Thomson, the artist and co-founder of the Stuckists, a group campaigning for traditional artistry, collated the number of plagiarism claims relating to Hirst’s work for the latest issue of the Jackdaw art magazine.” A closer look at specific examples from my favorite art collective.
Is Damien Hirst a plagiarist? Oh, I don’t know, but at the very least he sure is bullshit. I’m hoping we can move on from this “found objects as art” crap soon. It’s been way, way, way too long already.
There’s a movement brewing if you were wondering, that while not a direct response to the neo-bullshit movement that Hirst is the poster-child for, certainly aims to reintroduce classicism into fine and popular art. The tide is turning, and I hope the likes of Mr. Hirst have a good nest-egg stashed away as their “art” starts to decompose (I’ve heard that this has happened recently: one of Mr. Hirst’s Dead Cows or whatever has started to turn and the idiot who shelled out money for it is upset. DERP.)
Isn’t that sort of the point of Hirst? That the hype and the marketing ARE his art? The fact that he can get anyone to accept these objects as gallery/museum worthy art IS his gimmick?
I’m not an art expert and I don’t know much about Hirst, except that I’ve always heard that his “art” is hype, much less than the actual object itself.
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