#Damian Hirst

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Damien Hirt, In and out of love, butterflies and household gloss on canvas, 1991

[theartoftheprompt]

Art vs critique

[ryanwclement]

What is Art?

by Ryan Clement OF COURSE, I don’t really know the answer to this age-old question, but my very good friends, F and M, may well have come very close to an – rather than ‘the’ – answer. WE WERE CELEBRATING A VICTORY in a recent court case. We were enjoying our meal in Wembley – they had kindly made the journey South for my sole convenience. We, sorry, I had elected for an Indian meal. Had I…

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Paint pouring inspired by Damian Hirst.

Experimenting with a paint pour, on keeping with the concept of a washing machine movement of spinning clothes together with all the stains inside .I mixed the paints with PVA glue to stop the colour form mixing into each other too much. First I mixed the black then poured red/orange on top and used a spinning cake tray that I sourced in a charity shop.

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[jaynedolluk]

Watched some good art documentaries recently. First was Sensationalists (I think it was a 3 part series + should still be up on BBC i-player) that was all about the Young British Artists (like Damian Hirst + Tracey Emin) + how they rose to fame and how the big money got involved in modern art. Really interesting + I especially enjoyed the little bits on Leigh Bowery.

Also saw a documentary called TRAMPS! which looked at London in the late 70s/80s especially the New Romantics but more from the art/fashion side of things than the music side. Loads of original footage plus interviews w/people such as John Maybury, Princess Julia, Phillip Salon, + Judy Blame etc. I loved it + afterwards the director did a short Q + A and said the initial cut was 12 hours long so there’s loads more footage - would love to see a DVD with some bonus footage.

Saw The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix which had extracts from his diaries alongside archive footage + interviews (both from now + back then). It was a good indepth look at his life + work.

And finally saw The Black Italian Renaissance on Sky Arts which looked at black representation throughout art in the Renaissance period and how this reflected the culture/society at the time. I love stuff like this that takes an in depth look at a part of history that’s not widely discussed + turns up so much stuff.

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'Verity' sculpture by Damian Hirst in Ilfracombe, Devon, England, UK

JR Harris

[nextwavefutures]

The look of punk

The late Jamie Reid will always be associated with Sex Pistols. But he was a radical artist his whole life. New post at Around The Edges.

I wanted to remember the artist of punk, Jamie Reid, the man who gave the Sex Pistols’ records their look. Reid died recently, and it’s hard to realise how shocking some of early punk images were, now that they are on display in our national galleries. Their impact has been dulled by their familiarity. But its worth trying to remember their sheer power as images—as with ‘God Save The Queen’,…

[dapper-cat]

Teen Kids Room in Houston Kids' room idea: large modern girl's room with beige walls and a brown floor.

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[gothamcityneedsme]

the copious amounts of damian hirst references in vbros are so fucking funny once you know how much doc fucking Hates him

[pepperf]

Whilst I fully get tumblr's bias towards artists, I've been side-eyeing the whole Jonathan Yeo speculation--because yes, on the whole, people in the arts DO tend to be lefty, good people, etc, but it's not always the case. Official portraiture, in particular, tends to be the most Establishment-friendly of all the arts, attracting the kind of artists who are technically very talented, but who also have no inclination to rock the boat and are very happy to schmooze with those in power.

I know next to nothing about Jonathan Yeo, but on a little digging, I found:

He's the son of a Tory MP and is good friends with the Earl of Snowdon.

He's known for a painting of Tony "war criminal" Blair that made him look as tragic and sympathetic as possible.

He's also done chummy portraits of David "pigfucker" Cameron, Camilla (when she was still Duchess of Cornwall), Prince "massive racist" Philip, and Rupert Murdoch.

The notorious porn collage of George Bush was (allegedly) after a an official commission was approved and then withdrawn, so - fit of pique? Who knows. He also did a porn collage of Lucian Freud, which, given that he's often cited as Freud's natural successor in the world of big name British portrait artists, is a little rude.

On the other hand, if you know anything about Damian Hirst, you would know that he must have LOVED to be painted with his crotch in your face, looking like Henry VIII. Dude is a knob.

No one in Yeo's position is going to imply that a D-Day veteran is a war criminal. Just. Full stop. No.

Furthermore, his whole schtick seems to be to paint the background to match the outfit, in a kind of weird, matchy-matchy, interior decor style that I personally find meaningless.

Chas chose to wear his beloved Welsh Guards uniform, which is a lurid, bright red. Whatever else Yeo did, red was always going to be the dominant colour of that painting. The butterfly was apparently his idea, too, because he thinks he's some kind of eco-warrior.

Yes, Yeo has painted Malala Yousafzai, and Idris Elba, and Kristin Scott Thomas, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, and lots of other worthy people, too - it's his job, he's a portraitist.

If you want my opinion, the impression that Chas is swimming in buckets of blood or burning in hellfire is something the artist did not intend. Don't ask me how he didn't look at it and think, hmm, that's a little on the nose - maybe he'd thought too much about colour theory, too, idk. Judging by his past history, he's probably enjoying the attention rather than being mortified. Or maybe that was partly the intention. Just don't give him too much credit for being intentionally subversive.

But absolutely do keep reading into that painting as the indictment of British royal power that it ought to be; it's pissing off both the royals and the royalists, and I hope it burns, every time Chas has to see it.

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Exploring different inks to create movement, slashed and spills

I painted the background with coffee ink in a circular motion and making mark with splashes of coffee.I then used templates of cardboard for coffee pots and tomato ketchup . I watered down ketchup and used it as paint .I kept the paper on a tray that was moving in the opposite direction. Over all I was disappointed with the flow of the ketchup. I imagine it was going to be more fluid . I was inspired by Damian Hirst spiral paintings. I like the movement of Damian Hirst paints the just seem to flow

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‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ good version

[nancydrewpcpolls]

Aside from Nancy

[shaddad]

na ordem, de cima para baixo, roy lichtenstein, francis bacon e damien hirst, os estúdios de alguns artistas imaginados na pintura de damian elwes