Recently I have a plenty of question of contemporary art, the article( the London Evening Standard: 22 03.12) answers my enigma. Damien points out when he first time to see Carl Andres' installation, he thought "This is shit. It's like four bits of metals". Damien's feeling must be the same as the majority mass who do not realise contemporary art. Damien believes the psychology of art is visual language, where tricking people. There's a sound to words, when they're amazing, that moves you beyond the meaning. He further states" I've always felt the responsibility is on the viewers, not on the artists. You trick the viewer into thinking that you are telling them something, but you are revealing something that they have already have. It's like magic. It's like that Bruce Nauman piece where you are always looking at the back of your own head as you walk through it. You don't need to put into words what that means, but it means something spiritual, and then it doesn't. He likes Nauman's works which like thinking, but he doesn't know why. Damien takes an advertising of car for example, " The clothes the woman's wearing are really similar to the stripes and the patterns that are in the car she is laying across, that makes you confuse the woman and the car and making you want to buy the car, because you want to f*** the woman. I was thinking " how can I do that in art?"
-A sort of colour is joyful and deductive, but devoid of meaning if you're not careful.
-If I'm going to be an artist, I don't want to be one that just occasionally get it right but continually making amazing things.
-I've got to read all of these books before I can really start, and it's just an impossible uphill task.
-You need believe. Maybe instead of genius you need freedom
-You need to devour the history of art in order to do anything, to get to point where you want to do something that yourself.
-If that made sense 50 years ago, it's not going to make sense today.
-In a way it's never been before: you have got to have a different way of dealing with.
-Is Coca-Cola any good, or is it just brown fizzy liquid, and it's all a marketing scam?
On the other hand, while some people say Damien Hirst is a great artist, some argue he is an execrable artist. His work has been subjected to criticism by a number of art critic. Most recent arguments against has been published by Julian Spalding (2012) strongly criticises that Damien Hirst's work has no art in it, they have no artistic content and are worthless as works of art. He got a strong title" Con art", because it cons people, the object has found and just put together. Spalding's book "Sell your Damien Hirst while you still can" comes ahead of a major exhibition of hirst's work opening at Tate Modern and warns collectors to sell his work as will be worthless financially soon. In addition, Robert Hughes(2008) claims they are 'absurd' and 'tacky' commodities. Calling Hirst's famous shark in formaldehyde 'the world's most over-rated marine organism'. Calling Hirst's famous shark in formaldehyde'the world's most over-rated marine organic'. He attacks on the artist for' functioning like a commercial brand' that art has lost all meaning separate from its price tag. The works, he suggests, are now like film stars, while the galleries have been reduced to the level of the limousines used to convey them to people. 'Art as spectacle loses its meaning,' Hughes warns.
Contemporary art seems controversy, Damien's work is in particular. Julian Spalding points outs all art is a concept in the sense that is is the product of though. But all art must also be creation. You have to be able to see art; it cant't just be a projected thought. Julian takes a fairy tale to explain, the emperor got dressed, his expensive robes were all in the minds of people around him, when in reality he had nothing on. How do we value on contemporary art? Look at art like Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, they use their hands and passion elaborate and create on work. Art can be defined just only on thinking and deliver messages for viewer? Tate modern and Hirst take mutual advantages to build reputation and manipulate media through Olympics 2012?? (05.04.12)
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