I wish every halfwit bashing Hirst would take a few seconds to imagine the sort of work it takes to assemble the objects that form his art and realise the man was doing this stuff years before he'd even imagine anyone would pay a hundred quid for them. The craft in itself is worthy enough to be considered art, the fact that some of those installations actually confer profound statements regarding the nature of life and death itself makes it really good art.
Nope. You are mistaken. He was loaded before he was an artist. ...but not before he was a con-artist. It is CRAFT.... you are correct. It is not art. It is basket weaving.
I see Hirst as more of a modern conceptualist, that seems to be where alot of people get their dislike of him from. To most people art is done with paint not replicating or using objects, but objects here (for the most part aside from his dot series and later physical paintings) are objects that are conceptualised to form a certain expression or meaning and become the definition of what conceptual art, or any art, is. Just like some photographs reflect a conceptualised realism that already exists, the artist may not have made every object in the image, but the image now exists as an expression. I don't see Hirst as any different to photography. I think what he tries to do is too diverse for most people tho, tries his hand at too many avenues of expression for viewers to want to stay the whole journey. I think this is part of his charm though. I like that he might not be the most articulate or classic participant, his down to earth attitude of who gives a fuck keeps him a somewhat outsider artist along with his themes. I can't say i have liked everything he has done, but alot of people will knowingly or unknowingly be aware of one his images. Such as the shark tank and this to me proves his long standing. Love Hirst.
it's interesting to see so much hate directed toward hirst. I can see where people are coming from but that's the greatest thing about art is that really good art inspires strong emotions and commentary just like we're seeing here. like him or not I think on that merit alone one would have to consider him a great artist and I'm not a huge fan of his.
Regardless of what you think of Damien, those works he made with the white frames and the animals preserved in formaldehyde solution have always stuck with me and there’s something special about them in my mind. I don’t know much about the guy but I know I love the way those pieces look and feel
I find the sense of proportion and aesthetic in Bacon's work rather beautiful actually. As if there is an order a kind of ballet behind the brutality of the chaos & destruction. And the colours are so vivid and gorgeous. He depicts movement and action so well. You see so much in his work.
Damien Hirst is definitely influenced by Francis Bacon, the series he did of skulls and shark jaws with withe dots and lines remind me of the Bacon lines in the paintings. The 'triggers' are a good point too. To say that Damien Hirst is rubbish is in olde English " a load of cobblers me lord" because Hirst is creative. CREATIVITY and EXPERIMENTATION plus some talent helps. Some of Hirts's works the Shark Tanks...are a bit over the top, the For the love of God especially.
Then watch an interview with Bacon and he tells you exactly what pieces of art he was working with to create his images. Influences are seen as unsightly....every artist has them and makes comparison and tries to reach or attain the idea that originally struck them or spoke to them, motivating them to create art.
I like the way Damien is self deprecating. He must wake up every morning, pinch himself and ask how he's got away with it for so long. At least in his heart he knows it's more about luck than talent in his case. Bacon of course is on another planet and Damien knows it.
bunch of grown ass adults hating from outside a club they can’t get in… pathetic. you are all just mad you will die having made no impact on mankind’s culture and history and hirst has made a name for himself… and I’m not even a big fan it’s just sad to see
I would assume because his reaction to seeing some of the most incredible paintings ever was to put a dead cow in a box with a bunch of flies as opposed to creating art?
. . why there´s so much hate on p o l i t i c i a n s ? Maybe D.H. is a kind of "art-politician". Kind of absolutely u n s i n c e r e folks . . .I don´t know. I only know one thing for sure: Well . . . there is always a subtle reason for hate . . . .
Hard to fathom the amount of money Hirst has made in his short career. Bacon's work has always blown my mind....Hirst is right up there with Jeff Koons as one of the biggest charlatans the art world has ever produced. He must giggle to himself at the wonder of his "success"
Spin Paintings Those Hirst "spin paintings", we were churning those out in the late 60s! We used spinning record decks and poster paint! There were even people who set up shop on seaside piers etc where you could make your own spin paintings! Hirst is a total charlatan, and he has been embraced by charlatans!! Kinda, sorta, yer know, lol!
Francis Bacon was a great visionary full of poetry. Hurst is conceptionist who relies on gimmicks. The comparison is ridiculous but of course the Tate has to feed the modern machine to keep relevant.
He actually says that the merit of a Bacon painting is due to the viewer/'s "interpretation" (barf) and not the doing of the artist @ 1:48. And, yes, even Hirst's speech sounds too lazy to analyze a thought before he mumbles it out. He is among the majority of contemporary "artists" who use shock value and scale to attempt at making a large statement and drawing attention to themselves.
We all tend to forget to hear that paintings are primarily musical compositions (essentially non-narrative symphonies) rather than visual images. Surprisingly, for the Popes of Bacon, I would chose 'Sinfonia da Requiem', Op. 20, 1940, by Benjamin Britten in and 'Fratres' (1991 Version for String Orchestra and Percussion) by Arvo Pärt; the so-called 'screaming popes' are actually tragically tranquil and sedately serene and curiously clam; but all this is entirely subjective; neither 'right' nor 'wrong'. I also hear Vaughan Williams's 4th Symphony (1934) & Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony (1944) in Bacon's 'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion' (1944). But the main composer l always associate most strongly with Francis Bacon is the Swedish composer, Allan Pettersson (9 September 1911 - 20 June 1980) - a vastly underrated and underplayed composer; but not surprisingly still, I noticed someone on UA-cam posted up Allan Pettersson's 6th Symphony juxtaposed with Bacon's 'Fragment of a Crucifixion', 1950; do check it out. Allan Pettersson is an ideal composer for 'listening' to Francis Bacon with both sharing the same similar strident sound world of primordial pulsations and putrefactions. I also think Arnold Schöenberg's 'Pélleas und Melisande' op.5, (1903); and Arnold Schöenberg's 'Transfigured Night, Version for Full String Orchestra' (1917) 'go well' with Bacon's sound-palette; as does Alban Berg's 'Three Pieces for Orchestra', Op. 6, 1913-1915; and Edgard Varèse,'s 'Amériques' (for huge orchestra with sirens)1918-1921, Edgard Varèse's Intégrales (1923), Edgard Varèse's 'Arcana' for large orchestra (1925-1927) are paradigmatic Bacon sound-worlds. Bacon was a great symphonic composer.
The resentment and hate towards Damien Hirst is honestly appalling to me. Learning about him in art class I fell in love with his work and discovering Francis Bacon really explains where his art comes from. Damien Hirst is Francis Bacon in 3D, of course, that's a giant simplification but overall it's true. When people look at Damiens art I don't understand how no one ever sees the beauty in A Thousand Years for example which shows *real* life and death in a cycle where the death of a cow sustains a maggot which produces a fly which in turn dies to start the cycle over again. Or his giant bronzes which look like mundane objects in giant size or a child being exploited for greed. His work on pharmaceuticals represents the corruption in the medical market taking advantage of people with mental illness. And the best part about it is his link with psychology, so my interpretation may not be the same as someone else's, and we're both right.
I like bacon, both his soft and his crisp paintings. I like listening to Damien Hirst and his squeaky jacket. He dears to be naive and spontaneous. A lot of success sometimes make you relax. He leaves you feeling smart.
"From the distance is kinda representational, but when you get closer that leads to dissolve, so you know it's your minds creating the horror, rather than the artist ability" noice
@winksie A good point. Having seen a bit of Hirst's work up close I have to say that i think most of it will quickly be forgotten, though when he succeeds at making a piece, which is even rarer than he thinks, it truly can be amazing and I think will exist as an influence for a long time... provided anyone actually sees such pieces again rather than just his more famous stuff. I am thinking specifically of his painting done with dead flies. It is absolutely brutally beautiful.
I highly doubt some one like bacon would praise some one else like Damien since bacon was a bit of a masochist and thoroughly enjoyed hate. The person is sometimes more important than the artwork or can add value to the art.
No book reproduction captures near the power of these close-ups in the Tate. Wish the Tate would do a series on Bacon with Hirst just doing this. He’s worlds better than the cliched crap and hype that comes out of curators’ and dealers’ mouths. You’ve got to really see these grand paintings close, in their blinged out gilded frames, to enjoy the paint. I saw a video close-up of the Triptych of George Dyer dying and in the left panel where he’s hunched on the toilet you can see a black deathly goo eating his face. In decades of looking at Bacon books I never noticed it. In the triptych of Freud that sold for $150m you see his face oozing around Bacon’s cubical framing device, same deal. You’ve got to get in close to see the plasticity and the detail. I would call him an action painter, not Pollock. His brushstrokes are raw and freeze that kinetic energy. There is no “action” to drip painting or real painting for that matter.
damien hirst did have good ideas early on and it all relates to his interest of mortallity. but did he truely know anything about mortallity, life and death and its romanticism towards the artist/self. when hirst is dead i dont think his body of work will triumph as bacon's did
I won’t ever give Francis Bacon the pedestal he wants. His lover committed suicide in a bathroom and Bacon left him there for two days while He went to show off his artwork and two pieces being a “fuck you” to his lover who he could never love because the boxer wouldn’t hit him as Bacon was a masochist
There is nothing worse then listening to someone elses opinion of an artists piece before you have formulated your own. This spoils the purity of your first impression.
I received your reckless reply as a response to one of several of my comments. Could you please clarify exactly what issue you are attempting to respond to, if that's at all possible!
Who cares what Mrs. Damien Saatchi has to say? A complete creation of art magazines and auction houses. bacon and Freud are real artists and Hirst dull...
Hirst is the playboy of the debasement of art .. Warhol was the grandaddy of it . Anish Kapoor is the brat . Koons the all American psycho and Abramovich the bloodthirsty tyrant .. everything they've made put together in a room would not have enough warmth to light a candle . These people are corporate entities , ie corpses . They justify their creations with 10 page theories.They are props put in place to destroy the soul the same way the family unit, and culture has been systematically destroyed. Real art has never had to fight as hard to be understood and heard. Just look at today's Instagram .. the ones with huge followings are retired housewives , who don't have a wrinkle on their brows and get around with their Maybelline and designer pants .
Hirst sounds nearly illiterate. He doesn't bring himself to his work, he just looks for gimmicks and incorporates that "stuff" into his presentations. He forgets the magic because he's not a visionary, he's a cliche just like his BS presentations. Imitation game.
First you suggest that art and modern culture should be separate, right? Then you totally contradict that suggestion! So anyway what you are saying is that art is a commodity, a product for sale. I agree with you, and I also love genuine, ORIGINAL conceptual art. My doubts are that Hirst has stolen those loose guidelines, and aided by profit oriented, art industry grandees has manufactured a shallow, unimaginative body of work purely for profit. Its the way of the world, but is it integrity?
Oh yeah, Hirst is total shit. Y'know, because he's only won the Turner Prize and is the richest artist in the world. How many of you guys who bash him have ever really read up and studied him? Just curious. He's a pretty brilliant guy once you get into him.
Yeah... so RICH = GOOD? If there wheren't these (few) extremely rich and bored collectors Hirst would not sell anything at all. Just putting diamonds on a skull (which already make a tremendous amount of money just for te material) or cutting a cow in half and painting it golden so that even the last idiot understands his "message" does not make it art, It is just a huge self - sellout. Hirst is the symbol for these times where the "art" scene became nothing but a huge industry fill of hedgefonds and people who do not care for art at all.
I don’t get why we care about his opinion on Francis bacon. You don’t need to analyse good art. It speaks for itself. Hirst is definitely miles away from Bacon, not even close, culturally/artistically, under any point of view.
Bacon= true artist Hirst= corny, unimaginative, acquisitive, predictable,sensationalist. A semi literate product who is manipulated by those with dubious, self serving status, (Goldsmiths and other art industry "gurus"), and who seek financial gain from the collaborative manipulation of their investment oriented, public pronouncements and promotion of this pretender! Yes I am cynical, but Hirst takes the big biscuit!
Fly Piece by Hirst. Yes many of us know that one fly can multiply its genes a 1000 fold! Introduce a fly to a corpse and it happens! Its how forensic information can be time scaled. We know that, so what is Hirst trying to tell us that we already know? Oh and guess what, the flys can be killed by the light zapper, WOW!
Hirst is the biggest hack of all time. A perfect example of Art being solely the amount of money someone will pay. I have absolutely no respect for him as an artist and do not buy any of his "stories". Hirst Was and Is the Bon Vivant who uses others to achieve a fame based only on the most superficial of enterprises,,,Celebrity. If I never heard about him again. it would be lovely.
Bacon was overated himself ...I don't care for Hirsts work either much...though at least he has a redeeming feature ...a sense of humour! I have a theory that Contemporary art was invented so as to allow those lacking artistic talent the license to feel better about their lack of talent!
hirst is an intelligent guy but is also very ignorant, to bacon and the great historical art of the wallace collection. bacons work is very romantic and the works deserve more than just perceptions of nightmare
People rave about Bacon's artworks but I wonder if like " The emperor's new clothes" they're repeating what others say because it's the thing to do. They're disturbing images as I believe Bacon was.
J Watson I like it because I like bizarre looking things. Like the one in the red room with the Windows. I think to myself what if you were in the painting and climbed out the window. What would the world look like in that painting?
I don't know much about art. But when I see his painting I feel very much like someone understood pain and is telling me continue with life. I guess what am trying to say is you need a certain kind of pain for the artwork to make sense. If it hasn't happened to you, I guess that would make you a very happy person. Or at least happier than me.
Bacon was overated himself ...I don't care for Hirsts work either much...though at least he has a redeeming feature ...a sense of humour! I have a theory that Contemporary art was invented so as to allow those lacking artistic talent the license to feel better about their lack of talent!
one possibly definition of painting might be 'the production of space' The space between Hirst and Bacon is immense
So well said!
Next to the giant Bacon, Hirst is a flaccid fried mushroom that's gone cold at the edge of the plate.
I wish every halfwit bashing Hirst would take a few seconds to imagine the sort of work it takes to assemble the objects that form his art and realise the man was doing this stuff years before he'd even imagine anyone would pay a hundred quid for them. The craft in itself is worthy enough to be considered art, the fact that some of those installations actually confer profound statements regarding the nature of life and death itself makes it really good art.
Nope. You are mistaken. He was loaded before he was an artist. ...but not before he was a con-artist.
It is CRAFT.... you are correct. It is not art.
It is basket weaving.
imagine having so many brain worms that you believe the art marketing that passes for "contemporary art history"
Going to see some Bacon at Tate Liverpool tomorrow .Can't wait.Ends on the 18th.
"here for a good time not a long time" 'leather creaks as Hirst gesticulates'
I see Hirst as more of a modern conceptualist, that seems to be where alot of people get their dislike of him from. To most people art is done with paint not replicating or using objects, but objects here (for the most part aside from his dot series and later physical paintings) are objects that are conceptualised to form a certain expression or meaning and become the definition of what conceptual art, or any art, is. Just like some photographs reflect a conceptualised realism that already exists, the artist may not have made every object in the image, but the image now exists as an expression. I don't see Hirst as any different to photography. I think what he tries to do is too diverse for most people tho, tries his hand at too many avenues of expression for viewers to want to stay the whole journey. I think this is part of his charm though. I like that he might not be the most articulate or classic participant, his down to earth attitude of who gives a fuck keeps him a somewhat outsider artist along with his themes. I can't say i have liked everything he has done, but alot of people will knowingly or unknowingly be aware of one his images. Such as the shark tank and this to me proves his long standing. Love Hirst.
The starkly vivid expression of Bacon's personal sado-masochism is bewildering and moving......
I wonder if Hirst has ever read a book in his life.
i agree
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he really takes such a too attempted high minded approach to looking at these paintings. pretentious at times.
Forbes?
Have you 😂
Probably the only thing he thinks is worth reading are the numbers in his bank account
Bacon's work is amazing
it's interesting to see so much hate directed toward hirst. I can see where people are coming from but that's the greatest thing about art is that really good art inspires strong emotions and commentary just like we're seeing here. like him or not I think on that merit alone one would have to consider him a great artist and I'm not a huge fan of his.
Regardless of what you think of Damien, those works he made with the white frames and the animals preserved in formaldehyde solution have always stuck with me and there’s something special about them in my mind. I don’t know much about the guy but I know I love the way those pieces look and feel
The sound of his jacket reminds me of Burton's Willy Wonka's gloves XD
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"it's a ghost, it's alive, and it's dead. you can't look at it and you can't not." fucking hell.
I find the sense of proportion and aesthetic in Bacon's work rather beautiful actually. As if there is an order a kind of ballet behind the brutality of the chaos & destruction. And the colours are so vivid and gorgeous. He depicts movement and action so well. You see so much in his work.
Damien Hirst is definitely influenced by Francis Bacon, the series he did of skulls and shark jaws with withe dots and lines remind me of the Bacon lines in the paintings.
The 'triggers' are a good point too. To say that Damien Hirst is rubbish is in olde English " a load of cobblers me lord" because Hirst is creative. CREATIVITY and EXPERIMENTATION plus some talent helps. Some of Hirts's works the Shark Tanks...are a bit over the top, the For the love of God especially.
Hirst uses this "analysis" of Bacon as an opportunity to praise his own work. Tasteless.
Bacon praised Hirst's work too.
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@@MontyCantsin5 Good point Mr. Kantor(?)
Then watch an interview with Bacon and he tells you exactly what pieces of art he was working with to create his images. Influences are seen as unsightly....every artist has them and makes comparison and tries to reach or attain the idea that originally struck them or spoke to them, motivating them to create art.
I like the way Damien is self deprecating. He must wake up every morning, pinch himself and ask how he's got away with it for so long. At least in his heart he knows it's more about luck than talent in his case. Bacon of course is on another planet and Damien knows it.
hirsts leather and sunglasses betray any modesty that escapes his mouth.
@@passedtense436 Wiki says he's worth $215M. Jesus Christ.
bunch of grown ass adults hating from outside a club they can’t get in… pathetic. you are all just mad you will die having made no impact on mankind’s culture and history and hirst has made a name for himself… and I’m not even a big fan it’s just sad to see
why there's so much hate on Damien Hirst?
Because he is very good at adopting ideas instead of inventing one. Although to be honest, he knows how to polish things.
I would assume because his reaction to seeing some of the most incredible paintings ever was to put a dead cow in a box with a bunch of flies as opposed to creating art?
@@kane00000 Obviously he said it was the only piece Bacon liked of his but yes I'm sure he's mad because nobodies don't like it lmao
. . why there´s so much hate on p o l i t i c i a n s ? Maybe D.H. is a kind of "art-politician". Kind of absolutely u n s i n c e r e folks . . .I don´t know. I only know one thing for sure: Well . . . there is always a subtle reason for hate . . . .
@@ihatelogic He's a conceptualist, thats what conceptualists do.
been to this show, absolutely amazing. it even has one of bacon's early paintings on show 'crucifixion 1933'.
Bacon is an absolute god, damien who?.
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Francis Bacon is great.
Hard to fathom the amount of money Hirst has made in his short career. Bacon's work has always blown my mind....Hirst is right up there with Jeff Koons as one of the biggest charlatans the art world has ever produced. He must giggle to himself at the wonder of his "success"
All the Hirst haters are just jealous of his success. Hirst is a visionary in his own kind of way. Him and Jeff Koons understands how people work.
Francis Bacon, j'adore. La figure défigurée.
Now I can see where the monster from Silent Hill came from.
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Bacon shocks and moves me.
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Those Hirst "spin paintings", we were churning those out in the late 60s! We used spinning record decks and poster paint! There were even people who set up shop on seaside piers etc where you could make your own spin paintings! Hirst is a total charlatan, and he has been embraced by charlatans!!
Kinda, sorta, yer know, lol!
Francis Bacon was a great visionary full of poetry. Hurst is conceptionist who relies on gimmicks. The comparison is ridiculous but of course the Tate has to feed the modern machine to keep relevant.
Yes that's what a conceptualist does lol
I love this video
He actually says that the merit of a Bacon painting is due to the viewer/'s "interpretation" (barf) and not the doing of the artist @ 1:48. And, yes, even Hirst's speech sounds too lazy to analyze a thought before he mumbles it out. He is among the majority of contemporary "artists" who use shock value and scale to attempt at making a large statement and drawing attention to themselves.
well said
I also agree. Especially when it comes to scale.
Damien Hirst will never be anywhere near Bacon.
He will if he goes down cold meat aisle in Tesco
@Juan Perez: Just stop with the stupid comparisons.
Neither will you
@@mabboyz4lyf yes, but at least I'm self aware darling.
when the comments section is better than the video 🤣
We all tend to forget to hear that paintings are primarily musical compositions (essentially non-narrative symphonies) rather than visual images. Surprisingly, for the Popes of Bacon, I would chose 'Sinfonia da Requiem', Op. 20, 1940, by Benjamin Britten in and 'Fratres' (1991 Version for String Orchestra and Percussion) by Arvo Pärt; the so-called 'screaming popes' are actually tragically tranquil and sedately serene and curiously clam; but all this is entirely subjective; neither 'right' nor 'wrong'. I also hear Vaughan Williams's 4th Symphony (1934) & Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony (1944) in Bacon's 'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion' (1944). But the main composer l always associate most strongly with Francis Bacon is the Swedish composer, Allan Pettersson (9 September 1911 - 20 June 1980) - a vastly underrated and underplayed composer; but not surprisingly still, I noticed someone on UA-cam posted up Allan Pettersson's 6th Symphony juxtaposed with Bacon's 'Fragment of a Crucifixion', 1950; do check it out. Allan Pettersson is an ideal composer for 'listening' to Francis Bacon with both sharing the same similar strident sound world of primordial pulsations and putrefactions. I also think Arnold Schöenberg's 'Pélleas und Melisande' op.5, (1903); and Arnold Schöenberg's 'Transfigured Night, Version for Full String Orchestra' (1917) 'go well' with Bacon's sound-palette; as does Alban Berg's 'Three Pieces for Orchestra', Op. 6, 1913-1915; and Edgard Varèse,'s 'Amériques' (for huge orchestra with sirens)1918-1921, Edgard Varèse's Intégrales (1923), Edgard Varèse's 'Arcana' for large orchestra (1925-1927) are paradigmatic Bacon sound-worlds. Bacon was a great symphonic composer.
Love these comments, mostly because the haters, like flies, are all dying in this glass box.
The resentment and hate towards Damien Hirst is honestly appalling to me. Learning about him in art class I fell in love with his work and discovering Francis Bacon really explains where his art comes from. Damien Hirst is Francis Bacon in 3D, of course, that's a giant simplification but overall it's true. When people look at Damiens art I don't understand how no one ever sees the beauty in A Thousand Years for example which shows *real* life and death in a cycle where the death of a cow sustains a maggot which produces a fly which in turn dies to start the cycle over again. Or his giant bronzes which look like mundane objects in giant size or a child being exploited for greed. His work on pharmaceuticals represents the corruption in the medical market taking advantage of people with mental illness. And the best part about it is his link with psychology, so my interpretation may not be the same as someone else's, and we're both right.
I like bacon, both his soft and his crisp paintings. I like listening to Damien Hirst and his squeaky jacket. He dears to be naive and spontaneous. A lot of success sometimes make you relax. He leaves you feeling smart.
Very interesting. Next, let's hear what a bum on the street corner has to say about Francis Bacon.
"From the distance is kinda representational, but when you get closer that leads to dissolve, so you know it's your minds creating the horror, rather than the artist ability"
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@@annaford2311 ?
one of the top 3 greatest painters of the 20th century.
Hirst...only kidding.
@@pjc1954 matter of taste
Bacon hated that the word 'horror' was used in association with his work.
@winksie
A good point. Having seen a bit of Hirst's work up close I have to say that i think most of it will quickly be forgotten, though when he succeeds at making a piece, which is even rarer than he thinks, it truly can be amazing and I think will exist as an influence for a long time... provided anyone actually sees such pieces again rather than just his more famous stuff. I am thinking specifically of his painting done with dead flies. It is absolutely brutally beautiful.
he doesn't sound to bright. i like how he doesn't take off his shades
'to bright' Hahahahaha
Great stuff👌
He's probably looking for ideas to steal...
I highly doubt some one like bacon would praise some one else like Damien since bacon was a bit of a masochist and thoroughly enjoyed hate. The person is sometimes more important than the artwork or can add value to the art.
Damien Hirst seems like the Karl Pilkington of the art world. It'd be funny to see whether Karl could paint better than Damien could joke.
In the art world Bacon is the fingernail; Hirst is not even the dirt under the fingernail.
Why not get the opinion of a truly talented artist about Francis bacon ?
No book reproduction captures near the power of these close-ups in the Tate. Wish the Tate would do a series on Bacon with Hirst just doing this. He’s worlds better than the cliched crap and hype that comes out of curators’ and dealers’ mouths. You’ve got to really see these grand paintings close, in their blinged out gilded frames, to enjoy the paint. I saw a video close-up of the Triptych of George Dyer dying and in the left panel where he’s hunched on the toilet you can see a black deathly goo eating his face. In decades of looking at Bacon books I never noticed it. In the triptych of Freud that sold for $150m you see his face oozing around Bacon’s cubical framing device, same deal. You’ve got to get in close to see the plasticity and the detail. I would call him an action painter, not Pollock. His brushstrokes are raw and freeze that kinetic energy. There is no “action” to drip painting or real painting for that matter.
Good artists!
Bacon is a god like master, Damien Hirst is just a young pretender.
damien hirst did have good ideas early on and it all relates to his interest of mortallity. but did he truely know anything about mortallity, life and death and its romanticism towards the artist/self. when hirst is dead i dont think his body of work will triumph as bacon's did
I won’t ever give Francis Bacon the pedestal he wants. His lover committed suicide in a bathroom and Bacon left him there for two days while
He went to show off his artwork and two pieces being a “fuck you” to his lover who he could never love because the boxer wouldn’t hit him as Bacon was a masochist
There is nothing worse then listening to someone elses opinion of an artists piece before you have formulated your own. This spoils the purity of your first impression.
Well thats because you didn't know about it before hand where as other viewers might have
I received your reckless reply as a response to one of several of my comments. Could you please clarify exactly what issue you are attempting to respond to, if that's at all possible!
And his paintings are still "BAD" Bacons.........
This is embarrassing
Huh?
Why is he wearing sunglasses when he looks at the Bacon's? I hate when people wear sunglasses like this. Its disrespectful.
Different but I like it
Who cares what Mrs. Damien Saatchi has to say?
A complete creation of art magazines and auction houses.
bacon and Freud are real artists and Hirst dull...
Ha ha, you saved my day. Yah, Damien S a a t c h i :D :P
Hirst is the playboy of the debasement of art .. Warhol was the grandaddy of it . Anish Kapoor is the brat . Koons the all American psycho and Abramovich the bloodthirsty tyrant .. everything they've made put together in a room would not have enough warmth to light a candle . These people are corporate entities , ie corpses . They justify their creations with 10 page theories.They are props put in place to destroy the soul the same way the family unit, and culture has been systematically destroyed. Real art has never had to fight as hard to be understood and heard. Just look at today's Instagram .. the ones with huge followings are retired housewives , who don't have a wrinkle on their brows and get around with their Maybelline and designer pants .
Hirst sounds nearly illiterate. He doesn't bring himself to his work, he just looks for gimmicks and incorporates that "stuff" into his presentations. He forgets the magic because he's not a visionary, he's a cliche just like his BS presentations. Imitation game.
He is illiterate. Watch any interview. He is not creative OR intelligent. It is just a con.
@Eryxias He doesn't do them
hirst sucks compared to bacon
Every one sucks compared to bacon
First you suggest that art and modern culture should be separate, right? Then you totally contradict that suggestion! So anyway what you are saying is that art is a commodity, a product for sale. I agree with you, and I also love genuine, ORIGINAL conceptual art. My doubts are that Hirst has stolen those loose guidelines, and aided by profit oriented, art industry grandees has manufactured a shallow, unimaginative body of work purely for profit. Its the way of the world, but is it integrity?
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Interesting... a con artist talking about real artist.
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absolutely right. i love the bluntness of this statement.
Damien Hirst is like the art world version of freewheeling..
Oh yeah, Hirst is total shit. Y'know, because he's only won the Turner Prize and is the richest artist in the world. How many of you guys who bash him have ever really read up and studied him? Just curious. He's a pretty brilliant guy once you get into him.
Yeah... so RICH = GOOD? If there wheren't these (few) extremely rich and bored collectors Hirst would not sell anything at all. Just putting diamonds on a skull (which already make a tremendous amount of money just for te material) or cutting a cow in half and painting it golden so that even the last idiot understands his "message" does not make it art, It is just a huge self - sellout. Hirst is the symbol for these times where the "art" scene became nothing but a huge industry fill of hedgefonds and people who do not care for art at all.
@@michaelkrumscheid834 Well said my friend. He always reminds me of Andy Warhol -> very good s a l e s m a n !
I don’t get why we care about his opinion on Francis bacon. You don’t need to analyse good art. It speaks for itself. Hirst is definitely miles away from Bacon, not even close, culturally/artistically, under any point of view.
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Hirst is such a joke.
Bacon= true artist
Hirst= corny, unimaginative, acquisitive, predictable,sensationalist. A semi literate product who is manipulated by those with dubious, self serving status, (Goldsmiths and other art industry "gurus"), and who seek financial gain from the collaborative manipulation of their investment oriented, public pronouncements and promotion of this pretender!
Yes I am cynical, but Hirst takes the big biscuit!
Fly Piece by Hirst.
Yes many of us know that one fly can multiply its genes a 1000 fold! Introduce a fly to a corpse and it happens! Its how forensic information can be time scaled. We know that, so what is Hirst trying to tell us that we already know? Oh and guess what, the flys can be killed by the light zapper, WOW!
Nolan just feed this paintings to ledger, and then he dead because of depression
Bad really BAD Bacon!
Hirst is the biggest hack of all time. A perfect example of Art being solely the amount of money someone will pay. I have absolutely no respect for him as an artist and do not buy any of his "stories". Hirst Was and Is the Bon Vivant who uses others to achieve a fame based only on the most superficial of enterprises,,,Celebrity. If I never heard about him again. it would be lovely.
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Bacon was overated himself ...I don't care for Hirsts work either much...though at least he has a redeeming feature ...a sense of humour!
I have a theory that Contemporary art was invented so as to allow those lacking artistic talent the license to feel better about their lack of talent!
Gary Davies Bacon is overrated? dont think so...
hirst is an intelligent guy but is also very ignorant, to bacon and the great historical art of the wallace collection. bacons work is very romantic and the works deserve more than just perceptions of nightmare
People rave about Bacon's artworks but I wonder if like " The emperor's new clothes" they're repeating what others say because it's the thing to do. They're disturbing images as I believe Bacon was.
J Watson I like it because I like bizarre looking things. Like the one in the red room with the Windows. I think to myself what if you were in the painting and climbed out the window. What would the world look like in that painting?
I don't know much about art. But when I see his painting I feel very much like someone understood pain and is telling me continue with life. I guess what am trying to say is you need a certain kind of pain for the artwork to make sense. If it hasn't happened to you, I guess that would make you a very happy person. Or at least happier than me.
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Damien is zero talent. So how should he speak about the greatest painter of the 20th century?
Hirst wasn't speaking about Picasso or DuChamp or Johns or Warhol or Matisse or Rauschenberg.
Were you smoking a Havana cigar while you typed this?
Ok not zero but very middle @@warlockofwordschannel7901
Lol Hirst's paintings looked like mediroce art school paintings by someone a bit too influenced by Bacon
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Wow !! He can't analyze one piece
satanic?
This man is talking s**t about Bacon, I don't care if his art is good or bad, he doesn't understand what he's looking at.
He actually isn't talking shit. Hirst wouldn't be an artist if it wasn't for Bacon
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He's looking for ways to rip it off for his own work.
Hirst Is a grossness
A con artist reviewing a true artist irony
he hasn't style but he has a lot of money! kick him out
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Irish painting deformed human figures.
Y’all need Jesus
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Bacon was overated himself ...I don't care for Hirsts work either much...though at least he has a redeeming feature ...a sense of humour!
I have a theory that Contemporary art was invented so as to allow those lacking artistic talent the license to feel better about their lack of talent!
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