Why do people hate damien hirst

What about Beethoven? He doesn't run around and play instruments hundreds of years after his death but we still call it his work. What about a movie director? He doesn't do every little thing - he just sets the stage and direction and lets the pieces work. Isn't that what Hirst is doing? How is it a "Hirst" if he didn't paint it? How is a sculpture of his really his?

Did he catch the Shark? Did he make the first visible man? How can he call this stuff his work if he didn't make it? Isn't Hirst just arranging already existing pieces together too? You can't possibly put them both in the same category. Did Hirst do the work? No he didn't, so how is he considered an artist? Why isn't he just considered an interior decorator or something? But is he making decorations or is he making objects that challenge and question our understanding of art and the world we live in?

Isn't that what a good artists work should do? All he is is just a shock artist. Hirst's continuing success proves that in the looking-glass world of dealers and collectors, works of contemporary art can have financial and critical value regardless of any actual merit. Alone among the arts, visual art has become totally divorced from the idea of talent. No one respects a composer who can't play music or a writer who can't string a sentence together.

Only in visual art has this strange state of affairs come about where the talented are at a positive disadvantage and fake art sells for a fortune. In this era of fake art, how can the law seriously come down so hard on a Florida pastor who stupidly blundered into crime?

The sentence against him is of course about protecting property, not art. The law makes no aesthetic judgments. Yet the effect is to affirm the power of the art world to define its own perverse reality and profit from it, and perpetuate the right of Damien Hirst to maximise the value of his phoney artistic creations.

This poor pastor made a terrible mistake. He underestimated the gangsters who rule art in our time. Jeff Koons has a team of assistants, too. Virtually all of these men admit to little talent and a bunch of ideas. But no one is quite as annoying about it as Hirst. But after a while you can get away with things. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.

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