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.
@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.
@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).
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.
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.
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.
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! :)
'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.
@@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.
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!
@@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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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
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 RUclips 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 ($100K/Night)". When you look at what Damien Hirst has done here he just slapped some of his signature work on the walls and was like "my work here is done" instead of innovating new art. There is litterally medical trash under the kitchen table, which is supposed to resemble the pharmaceutical and medical art he does. Instead it just looks like someone hasn't cleaned the kitchen table for years. The rainbow colours used everywhere makes it look more like a McDonald's playroom than a 100K USD PER NIGHT LUXURY HOTEL ROOM hahahahah. And dont get me started on the pills he has on the walls or the pill packages he assorted in rainbow colours and said "ART!". To me it seems like he created his arts not from random genius thoughts like most artists, but instead he was like "I'm gonna do something that makes me look like a genius artist" and so he took the first ideas that came to his head. The whole hotel room was also just old art pieces and he reused them because he couldnt bother to make new exclusive art for the hotel room even though he was probably paid millions to do it. Don't get me wrong, some of his artworks are kind of maybe mildly unique, but the hotel room really shows that he only creates art when its necessary and not because he wants to. To me he seems like a con artist just trying to get by in the art world. Like no real artist (who wants to innovate) would ever do what he did to that hotel room if they were offered the opportunity. Something that would have been more fitting for a hotel room, which would be luxury.
I saw Doug Demuro review on a Las vegas suites and the Theme was terrible led me to this artist who designed it I think is very bad. Your paying 100k$ a night and you see polka dots theme shit.
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".
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.
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.
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?
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.
+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?
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.
This interviewer is actually terrible. She is So rude. And she pushed him on how much he's worth, seriously, who Does that? No one asks someone how much they're worth, it's just rude. Sidebar: she was also really rude in the interview she did with Jeff Koons as well!
thats,,, common knowledge. nothing we can do about that. the fine art world is only a money-making machine slaving away to serve these rich charlatans, who have absolute control over it.
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.
ahhhh so its all about the world .... blah blah blah 'children murdered in africa' blah blah 'can i support my own children' blah blah,.. says to PR assistant off camera ' DID i GET EVERYTHING IN ? 'yeh you got economic crisis, meaning of life, tragedy, love.. yeh I think you did it... bollocks
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.
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.
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.
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 RUclips 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.
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.
A level is not the same as a degree. Check Picasso's talent at aged 12yrs
@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.
@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).
@@negara54 😂🕳️
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.
I would be happy with worlds most successful, famous, wealthiest artists ....No wait i might happen
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.
Strange she doesn't mention the blood on his hands either. Strange how that works.
you have clearly seen none of his other works
better than your skills
A bad poet tries to say something important. A good poet hangs out with words.
Prat aphorism.
HAHA THE INTERVIEWER IS JUST REEKING OF SARCASM !!! love it.
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.
Charlie don't surf I'm pretty certain it wasn't 700 homes
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! :)
Met me yet?
Why the hate?
Perfectly said
says the one with the mlp profile picture
She compared his million dollar skulls to pimp my ride television show. Godliest of compliments.
The emperor isn't wearing anything
that's the whole point of his work.
No its not you dope. Thats Banksy. This is daylight robbery.
is it not hot topic enough
@@Raphael3032 to sell refuse for 100s of millions?
New York and Cosmopolitan Elites are the equivalent of an Emperor with New Clothes.
'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.
typo: Long John Silver.
@@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.
Mr Damien can you spare some change to on old lady like me-self. I million maybe??
she isn't a very good interviewer
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!
She's sexy.
why do you think that ?
He paints dots. So they were made for each other.
His not a very good artist aswell
Looks like Phil Collins younger brother.
If Phil Collins brother fell into a pool when he was a baby.
horrible insulting reporter, more concerned with insulting damien hirst than actually hearing his side of the story.
this is tv journalism i guess
RubberCement so you like Damien guest because you're on RUclips and many people don't like hjm
RubberCement then watch something else
RubberCement I was impressed that she called him out. This full on bs
Hmm, how much animals were harmed during your artwork?
Hirst: anything done super well is art
I guess he isn't artist
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.
"red dots mean love" "black dots mean death". sir??! what?
Great salesman.
He managed to sold me absolutely nothing !
@@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
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.
I think she's superb. Challenges him a bit. Most don't .
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
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
Haah, Ms Luscombe, that was BRILLIANT.
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.
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?!?
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.
4:46 - 4:50 Yeah, OK. :|
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.
There's only one question; .... Why
+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.
+Barry Ryan There is no why with art this generic and uninspired...
@@MultiJebusChrist it´s gorgeous
money. duh.
yet even when the people hate him, are making others love him
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.
He can't drive.
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?
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.
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?
agreed
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
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.
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 RUclips 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 ($100K/Night)". When you look at what Damien Hirst has done here he just slapped some of his signature work on the walls and was like "my work here is done" instead of innovating new art. There is litterally medical trash under the kitchen table, which is supposed to resemble the pharmaceutical and medical art he does. Instead it just looks like someone hasn't cleaned the kitchen table for years. The rainbow colours used everywhere makes it look more like a McDonald's playroom than a 100K USD PER NIGHT LUXURY HOTEL ROOM hahahahah. And dont get me started on the pills he has on the walls or the pill packages he assorted in rainbow colours and said "ART!". To me it seems like he created his arts not from random genius thoughts like most artists, but instead he was like "I'm gonna do something that makes me look like a genius artist" and so he took the first ideas that came to his head. The whole hotel room was also just old art pieces and he reused them because he couldnt bother to make new exclusive art for the hotel room even though he was probably paid millions to do it.
Don't get me wrong, some of his artworks are kind of maybe mildly unique, but the hotel room really shows that he only creates art when its necessary and not because he wants to. To me he seems like a con artist just trying to get by in the art world. Like no real artist (who wants to innovate) would ever do what he did to that hotel room if they were offered the opportunity. Something that would have been more fitting for a hotel room, which would be luxury.
I saw Doug Demuro review on a Las vegas suites and the Theme was terrible led me to this artist who designed it I think is very bad. Your paying 100k$ a night and you see polka dots theme shit.
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".
Regardless of your opinion of Hirst and his work that interviewer was so disrespectful and rude for no reason.
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.
Superficial interview, you don't need Hirst to answer those questions, all those questions are already answered 100 years ago in art history.
Plain vanity, nothing else, no substance, no skill, no vision. Fashion a thin as a papercut. Oh what sad times
I love him and his art. He is a f*cking genius!
I've a feeling his worst fear will happen, maybe already...
+jaye see Surely the mere fact that you're watching this video is a contradiction to that statement.
@@superbigidiotAre you still alive?
@@Johnconno Wtf
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.
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?
she's right
My Art is All About Money it's self & time & YOU can Price my art Yourself 🔘⚪⚫🔴🔵
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.
bless you my friend. I agree
its the people who purchase his works that are chumps, and should be asked why
I honestly think that's a really good idea.
that tone shift towards the end.
i can't stand the host.
Damien Hirst doesn’t believe in God bc he has made himself the god of his own life.
lol ok
Yes I have heard of them.
His art is literally poco dots??? Wtf you can’t make this shit up for a $1mil a piece who’s dropping money like that??
Pretentious rich people just because they can
Why?
he is not articulate
Doesn't matter when u got British accent.
he doesn't need to be.
I feel kind of sad for hirst when I watch this. He's like a child.
True artist create their own work they're Outsourcing to make more money it's more about money than art phony baloney
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So. If that woman was interviewing me, I would have told her to ---- off.
The worlds most successful crap artist.
Can not log in to Snapchat
This guy is a professional troll.
Artist? It is much to say.
clearly you didn't listen to the interview
that was the point of the YBA's
I just watched the documentary. Someone tell me whats up with the Mickey Mouse sculpture???
even tho in theory i hate these dots if i had a chance to see them in a gallery i probably would
Just one thing:
HAMPARTE
What people missed...was that it was self therapy...how to handle insanity...how to deal with my past...
Is he a charlatan or not ?
Business Artist supreme
well,,, what do you think?
I would disagree that anything done well is art. Any conscious action is art.
+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?
Dali did the spots in the 50's.
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 😅😅😅
I love when good artists make good money. I think everyone should have business skill.
@modernhumble well, there has to be one
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.
Alistair Kinnear shut da fk up
Moron
This interviewer is actually terrible. She is So rude. And she pushed him on how much he's worth, seriously, who Does that? No one asks someone how much they're worth, it's just rude.
Sidebar: she was also really rude in the interview she did with Jeff Koons as well!
History will teach you a lesson
ADMIRAL LORD NELSON
WHAT A HONOUR.
Damien Hirst stole all his famous work from John LeKay and other artists. Spread the word!
thats,,, common knowledge. nothing we can do about that. the fine art world is only a money-making machine slaving away to serve these rich charlatans, who have absolute control over it.
Why is he ripping off Johnny Depp's ring style lol
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.
I just saying his art its crap...
ahhhh so its all about the world .... blah blah blah 'children murdered in africa' blah blah 'can i support my own children' blah blah,.. says to PR assistant off camera ' DID i GET EVERYTHING IN ? 'yeh you got economic crisis, meaning of life, tragedy, love.. yeh I think you did it... bollocks
This lady is cringe at interviewing. Damien should come on That's the Angle podcast.
Its not the actual piece of art in itself thats essential. Its this great man.
Stop it he’s horrible
Making it up as he goes you should name him bingo a little spot you buy
Completely anti Hirst biased but better than nothing
I reckon hes prime position for pimp my skull❤
this is just embarrassing
Habla cañon como Pete Doherty 😮
Yes it's you but not because of you are an artist, it is so because you let other people do it for ya
its,all relative who gives,a shit.
Who hired her??!?!
Cannot. STAND him. Its only about money for him.
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.
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.
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.
at least jackson pollock's paintings look good from far.
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 RUclips 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.
wow these paintings are absolute trash LOL