hirst

Decide for yourself if this is ripping off Hirst, or creating a legitimate new work that mocks Hirst and his crowd.

In a lot of ways he's the cultural opposite of the Damien Hirst sort—everything Hirst likes Banksy hates and vice versa.

And if Hirst has taken a photo of John DeKay's skull, DeKay would be right to take action.

Maybe if Koons or Hirst start selling on Amazon, things will start to even out.

No one has managed to capture, understand and most importantly exploit the zeitgeist of the modern art movement like Hirst has.

Especailly since that particular Hirst piece is itself derivative if not an outright copy.

They’re for well put individuals who can’t afford buying an original Hirst or a Murakami and are glad with a numbered copy (for example [1], [2]).

I would not call Hirst a hack, a hacker maybe, but not a hack.

Lubbock isn't necessarily saying Hirst is talentless.

I doubt Hirst would get so much criticism from defending his work if he were less successful, and his work was being ripped by someone more successful.

The latter uses a phyllotaxis algorithm that models how sunflower florets replicate (even though I think Hirst traced his from a textbook it's fun to implement the algorithm).

Nowadays artists produce work that is reflective and glorificatory of global manufacturing supply chains and ultraspecific brand identity and are handsomely rewarded for their personification of otherwise abstract corporate values - Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons being the leading British and American practitioners of this post-modernistic aesthetic.

This part is interesting: "But Hirst's complaint was seen as ironic by some in the art world, given the controversy surrounding the provenance of his skull.

"Hirst told the Guardian the digitisation of newspaper archives had been like “opening up a big box of candy”, allowing as it did Twain’s articles to be tracked down in a way that was not possible when archives were all on microfilm."

Hirst is one of the most significant artists of the last two decades regardless of his technical prowess.

Hirst's copyright lawsuits are pure bullshit and enough to make him a very person in my eyes.

Hirst was the first mainstream artist to bypass art dealers and auction directly to collectors.