Damien Hirst and Stephen Fry discuss Damien's artwork, The Currency.
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2021
- Damien Hirst and Stephen Fry discuss The Currency NFT collection, art, money, and truth. How do all these tie into belief? What will people do with the Tenders? And what does the artist find exciting and difficult to get his head around in 'The Currency'?
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I think he was better when he was in Genesis
lol no wait
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
HaHa
yeah id stick to the music, coz his arts pretty crap
I think you are being VERY PC !
Did I hear correctly....it took 25 years to perfect his dots.....dear oh dear.
A person may hear, but might not ever listen.
There's a sucker born every minute.
You're right its all shit. But that's what makes it a perfect, its a representation of our man made world.
Andy Warhol would be all over NFTs if he was alive today.
He's literally making money..and calling it art
Agreed & . .
con artist is an artist too.... no? ;)
There are some beautiful banknotes around. Think I'll buy one and frame it :D
I'm reminded of those great intaglio printmaker artists of old.
P.Ound, D.Ollar, S.Terling, G.Uinea etc, etc who have brought so much apparent joy to our lives with the presence of their work in those little leather portfolios of old.
@@rickh3714 - lol agreed
Are we gonna credit the assistants that actually created these pieces?
the assistants didn't create the pieces, they only executed them.
Those beautiful decisions those assistants make are the art if you could call it that. Hirst is a very good business man. Excellent at exploiting his workers.
@@GS-dz5kr As is Jeff Koons, similar way of "working".
@@pigeonpat8168 you’re not an artist from your ideas alone, in my opinion you have to have the skill and patience to execute them yourself as well. he gets 100% of the credit for doing 50% of the job
also him always saying “I made this” “i painted this” just rubs me the wrong way when there’s an entire team of people working on these things
Don’t you just hate everyone going with the flow, instead of being blatantly honest and saying, actually I think this piece is shite, some of your stuff is ok, but you’re riding on your name man, it’s an economic mess!
But isn't that what he's trying to say. Currency is imagined, or a token of value.
No ! He's trying to do as little as possible for maximum gain , dolt.
Do you guys who say this shit not think that they are aware of this? He is literally doing this and calling it currency. It's literally the whole point of the project, he is printing money...
The fact that Stephen Fry can share space with this fraud makes me question why I would respect Mr. Fry.
Perhaps view it as an opportunity to level yourself up to Fry’s level rather than level Fry down to your level
well, at on point Steven refers to Hirst's next project as a "scheme" so I think he's aware...
Completely. With his supposed intellect and integrity it’s baffling that he’s validating him.
Fry is very overrated as an intellectual, I believe.
@@alifarley8766 agreed
Whatever Hirst might be , an artist isn't one of them.
hirst is a marketolog
a confidence artist
@will west still an artist
Why is he not?
@@benholland4494 He nearly always gets “his” work done by others.
GENOCIDE OF BEAUTY
Damien: I think that's the art
Fry: Yeah
hirst is a marketolog
i tried those clear plastic dot tools and they drip. found a rubber version of it and it was neater and it didn't dimple. where did you get those gold pencils?
Lucky bastard! I'm an "artist" and I'm envious! I wish my whims would get next-level attention. Good for him.
All things aside, the magic part was actually really nice. :)
mr hirst’s death will be his ultimate work of art by the degree it multiplies the monetary value of his creations
Damien didn't do Jack shit, just told some poor art students to paint a bunch of fucking dots.. he even has an assistant to move each piece after he autographs it lmao
Well you certainly get more than just a piece of paper with some dots on it. That's a really nice watermark. I'm sure most people are going to go for the artwork. (but not so sure, since an NFT can be resold faster, and the more that go for the artwork, in turn makes the NFT more valuable. This project will be more interesting once they are destroyed. It's sad that you'd have to already be a famous artist for it to be successful though.
It's certainly going to generate someone some currency, artist's get a royalty payment each time an NFT is resold, all a bit of a profit making scheme, but he's not hiding it.
money is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it
101% Agreed
13 minutes to just say that he find a way to make money
Brilliant crook.
I know what the dots mean……..thank you Hirst for your wisdom. For if you had not had success I would never have seen what I needed to.
Are you taking the piss?
@@danielnichols5632 🤣
This is REALLY inspiring. "When I let it go, it can come to life. The whole thing is the art work. "
Why is it inspiring? What does it inspire you to do?
Meaningless art speak
'Let others have a go, let others have a go at feeling special, let Damien Hirst have a go at an art career, let Tracy Emin have a go at feeling special.'
If I had one of those it would take me weeks to get around to bother to see if I could get any quidz for it
I laughed, laughed and laughed. Had to cover my eyes and peek through a hand and fingers.
Laughing with tears of anger and hate!
He is a smart and talented man …but his main skill is that he understand the system and that is why he made the difference .
I got selected! Stoked aint the word!
Me too! What your plan? NFT or the dots?!!
@@abigailallgood2489 that's going to be the big conversation!
art-like product factory owner
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i always find it funny that people refer to Hirst as an "artist" and not as a businessman ( that is the polite way of saying con man....oh wait, we DO say "con artist" so yeah, he might actually be an "artist"....of sort....)
Hirst is not an artist.
@@decalco1373 An Artpreneur or Conceptual artist - which is about the idea, not the medium nor the skill. He's introduced the masses to art, galleries and museums - which dates back to the early 1990s. I think he's earned the title and his natural flair for publicity has fueled it.
Bloody Groucho club hangers on. Fry ? Shallow Frying tonight Steve !
Seen the skull stopped the video shit is literally absurd. You see all these rappers making chains at Icebox same shit.
He's like a researcher in figuring out what has value in art to then generate it for himself.
A great artist is a great showman too...is Hirst short, or Fry tall??
Love the way he states that he made these artworks ... irl his staff made them ... then he sacked them ... del-boy he is what the art market deserves.
Interesting idea. I wish NFT's were not so taxing on the environment. Esp since he made 10k of them.
sigh... I just wish it looked cooler. Why can't "contemporary art" look cool?
Why must the image be mundane dots on a piece of paper. Of all the things to do, sporadic dots on paper.
Well, some would say the concept of this kind of art is to make the receptor ask the question "what is art?", something his art has done successfully judging by your comment. Also, it's not all about photorealism in this kind of medium, of even a concrete meaning at all, you got of think of his color pallete which is specifically chosen for physological effect, (color is obviously the most important thing in painting), the concept of the art's simplicity itself, the theory behind it etc
also, i agree, i wish all art was cool shit like canaletto lol
The dots do look cool. But art is subjective.
it was minted on the palm network which is supposedly 99% less taxing.
It can😒
I look like Hirst and Keith Allen stuck together. One difference ?
" I can draw and paint and sculpt without help ! "
Love.
He owes me a signed painting but I will not go there
It really grinds my gears the way he over talks his interviewers before they have finished their sentences!
I’m colorblind so those dots just look like that test….. so non colorblind people can relate. What’s that saying about a fool and his money?
I don't think that Damien Hirst uses art supplies from kindergarten suppliers, there is a snobery in the materials an artist uses
You might be on to something there.
I don't know what an NFT is, the whole thing lost me. I don't understand what it is.
They pictures look nice, just as they would if my little niece did them. Is this playing on the idea that Hirst is special, so these simple pictures are worth lots of money?
But what was the scheme?
Can I buy one of your niece's pieces?
@@latetodagame1892 No, you have to buy an NFT
the dots project changed my life
I believe
this guy is a icon
That last word has one letter too many
Mark Carney and SF as new Saatchi. 😉
This type of art really is THE KINGS CLOTHES it’s fantastic because someone says it is. Cutting animals in half and putting them in formaldehyde is not art either I don’t begrudge the guy for making a fortune . But just shows how shallow we have become
It looks like it's closed, I would have bought one and cashed it in for the original, then sat back and sell it in 25 years or so for $150,000+ etc.
He reminds me of the movie the Magic Christian.
“Artists” have become the 🐺 of art street.
the art world is such a pretentious pile of w a n k
Hirst? I have finally come to terms with him
Exactly but who amongst has never had a good wank?
Blame the invention of pop art!
@@zoetfrancis8059 ...before. Blame the arabs!
Don't ya dig how ephemeral being ethereal is?
Sell your Hirst ASAP he will be one of tge many artists throughout history that will lose there appeal and will eventually lose all there value, I bet he has been buying his own work along with his partners for a very long time?
Whether you love or hate DH, The fact is that what he produces makes money for himself, his family and more importantly the investors. He believes and more and, others believe. It is the same differentiation that takes place when you buy a car, house or any object, you trust the people giving advice. Me, if I knew what an NFT was I would certainly buy in.
Prefer unbelief
Stephen Fry trips over Institutional Critique led by a blind mam. This is the equal of Neil deGrasse Tyson discussing SCIENCE. Power is the ultimate model of mimetic reproduction, money is the fuel of power , that is the concept! Stephen Fry do a piece on Ad Reinhardt an honest artist.
Stephen fry don't fool me!
Brilliant! I would love one of those🤘🏼🟡⚫️🔵🔴🟢
Then bloody make one dolt ! Its easy !!!
I met him at a wedding he was pissed ,he failed his cse art !!!!!! One born every minute !!!!!mr fry !!!!!!!!i ha..te him too
Damien Hirst making Currency. So what's new ?
"The Art Damien Hirst Stole". On UA-cam.
Be prepared !
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Yeah ...... exactly ........ credit ...... (blank pause) .......
1:19 I thought wow! Art truly is restorative.
That was fun. I'm trading my NFT in a heartbeat :)
On est au sommet de la créativité avec Hirth. Félicitations pour votre contribution au monde de l’art. 🤥
Making diamond covered skulls so that the ultra rich can show off their wealth and not feel too guilty about it. Yeah why aren't people just looking at it as an artwork instead of obsessing over the literal value of the gems? This is "let them eat cake" if there ever was. I only clicked because of Fry but this is disappointing.
At this point in his career, money means nothing. May as well just make your own…
A charlatan!!!
Let me begin by telling you that when my brother was just starting school, he rebelled at the rules of spelling.
Why did words have to be spelled in a particular way?
Why couldn't he spell them as he wanted to spell them?
He resented the rules and he resisted the authority of those who made them !
Keep this in mind.
I think that Conceptual art originated with people who could not and would not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist.
Can't master the necessary skills ?
No knowledge of perspective?
Can't draw?
Don't want to have to learn color theory?
Can't master composition?
No knowledge of human anatomy?
Can't render tonal values
Can’t be bothered ?
These are skills that you have to WORK to prefect.
It’s difficult.
It takes…..effort.
But you want a fast track to the exalted position of "artist “.
First step: belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art.
Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do.
A new genre.
And let's call it Conceptual art.
Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art.
They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept!
Second step: Undermine the credibility of your critics.
There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged.
The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work.
They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities.
They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized .
All of this results in a decline in standards.
And when you jettison standards, quality suffers.
There really IS such a thing as BAD art !
We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated.
It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea:
No one has the right or authority to make any judgements about art !
Art is anything you can get away with !
A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas.
Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak".
ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning!
Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable?
Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened?
You’re not alone.
Here are examples of ArtSpeak:
'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.''
Or
''The exhibition reactivates his career-long investigation into the social mutations of desire and repression. But his earlier concerns with repression production--in the adolescent or in the family as a whole--give way to the vertiginous retrieval and wayward reinvention of mythical community and sub-cultural traditions.''
This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as art.
I don't buy it.
But plenty of other people DO buy it.
Not because they love the work.
They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future.
One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Ball_Total_Equilibrium_Tank_by_Jeff_Koons,_Tate_Liverpool.jpg
Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim:
“ This is an ultimate state of being.
I wanted to play with people’s desires.
They desire this equilibrium.
They desire pre-birth.
I was giving a definition of life and death.
This is the eternal.
This is what life is like, also, after death.
Aspects of the eternal”
Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!!
It sold for $350,000.
I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it.
Or take the case of Martin Creed's ball of crumpled white copy paper.
www.abebooks.com/signed/Work-sheet-paper-crumpled-ball-Creed/7404135374/bd
He made almost 700 of them!
Some sold for hundreds of dollars.
Martin Creed, when asked during an interview how he would respond to those who say the crumpled paper ball isn’t art said :
“ I wouldn’t call this art either. Who says, anyway, what’s good and what’s bad?”
Interviewer:
''When confronted with conceptual art, we shouldn’t worry whether it’s art or not because no one really knows what art is.''
Is this what art has come to??
Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 50 years.
Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is often called Abstract.
Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre.
But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure, principles or standards of evaluation.
It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary.
Something that anyone could do.
Any composition of blotches or scribbles was labeled “Abstract Art”.
This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art.
Art is what I say it is....and lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon.
Anyone can be an artist.
Anyone can mount a show.
And who is to say if it has value or not ?
A tacit agreement has formed among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles.
Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised .
Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery.
And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value.
The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made.
And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines !
This is what dominates the art market today.
The love of money is the root of all evil, it has been said,
It has corrupted politics.
It has corrupted sport.
It has corrupted healthcare.
It has corrupted religion.
And now it has corrupted art.
But, there is reason to hope.
As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting, to each new generation.
And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.
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@Flat Eric The mega rich from every corner of the globe are responsible for a lot of our troubles.
"Damien Hirst put a fish in a tank, some think it's art others think it's wank" - Billy Childish, Art or Arse.
Thanks for this...i needed to read this.
Im still in the trenches sharpening my skills, the distractions are getting stronger.
Sorry if my message came across as cryptic. i think it was half response half thinking out loud.
I agree with @Renzo post and i was trying to say that i am learning and practicing how to become an artist, its been a couple years now and im happy with my progress but recently i am faced with too many situations were clients or people around me demand i create the type of work in the video.
I dont agree with work of that nature, i tried to satisfy a client once and i still dont like the memory of how doing that made me feel. Its almost like the industry is saying: "If you want to become an artist or make money from your work you must do work like that".
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for your time
The way he does spots is freaking genius.
my spots are better than his
The spots on my arse are better
Sorry to woods
I Produce Garbage : eYe Produce gar'bage : EyE Porridge G'arBage : Therefore ..
Single line poem, repeats and shits itself to infinity. can be currency swapped 4 Limited edition promissory note.
Does anyone know if Banksy has ever made a comment about Hirst? This man has seemed to convince rich people he is a great artist but what do I know?
They did a collab a while back. Generally both artists are ones you either like or hate.
@@morbideddie thanks I saw Hirst had some work in Banksy's Dismal Land. I really dig Banksy's work the hotel in Bethlehem was just such wonderful thinking and creating. I have really been trying to look at everything I can about him lately.
Perfect to messy .....wow, I better get my millions.....lol
We need to get back to the real artist. This is banking not art.
You'd have to go back to the 1800s.
@@overman2306 Not really. Even the abstract expressionists in the 1950’s put art before money, deKooning, Klein, Etc.. even Diebenkorn. But today people such as Damien Hurst put money before art. His dots is not even original. The whole art world is now governed by galleries. Not artists and critics like Greenberg in the 1950’s. Galleries want stuff that sells easily. They build up names even if the work is 2nd rate.or even 3rd rate. But that will change soon . Artists will take over again and sort out what is good and what isn’t. But 1800 and there about s that art was not very good either. Originality was lacking and that opened the way for the Impessionists.
@@albertinsinger7443 They're all terrible degenerate painters who are cut from the same cloth as Hirst. Anything abstract is pure shit. If you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder then that's your first problem.
You could maybe push it to the early half of the 1900s. The last great artist was Monet and even he wasn't as good as what came before him.
Salvador Dali was an exception in the 1900s because he was technically gifted, but surrealism was nonsense too.
@@overman2306 I am not as dark as you about art. Western art has always had one precondition and that is that it had to be original. Go to Giotto or Monet or even Picasso it was original. I had a gallery for years in NYC and used to have huge fights with the editors of Art inAmerica and art Forum because they claimed back in the 1990 s that name was all that mattered not the art produced . Eventually originality will make a comeback and so will good art. People will eventually see the emperor has no clothes.
@@albertinsinger7443 The optimism is nice. However, I think the editor was just dealing with reality. It's been about the artist not the art for a very long time now.
The Don Trump of the art world.
At best Hirst can be described as a 'Creative Director'. He comes up with an idea and a legion of real artists and craft's people execute his idea, Hirst signs the piece, and gets all the credit, the same goes for Jeff Koons, and others of that 'conceptual art' ilk. Is Hirst's work “art”? Well that's debatable, art is subjective after all. Hirst is an “idea man”, he comes up with a product and sells it, period. I put him in the same company as Mike Lindell; the MyPillowGuy. I would not buy from either one.
Is a one man shit show, giving art a bad bullshit name
i love his work and jeff koon´s work
Why would you not want a great pillow?
One of them Has a crap stain on it. That’s the most expensive one .
The work is kinda similar to a japanese artist. Yayoi Kusama... heard of her?
dont put kusama and hirst in the same sentence . EVER!!!! why are you trying to humiliate her like that????? (so i guess you now know what i think of conman hirst lol..... she on the other hand is quite nice and even interesting at times.)
@@boazzippor1972 what I am trying to imply is his work is a rip off of someone's work. I love Kusama's work and I only think of colorful polka dots as hers.
@@johnmarkfrancisco9414 ALL of his work is rip off. he is NOT an artist. he is a businessman...
@@boazzippor1972 I would be deranged to think that he is an artist. I would be better in a mental asylum with Yayoi than stay in this crazy world acting normal with Damien Hirst.
I'm just spit balling here-- but you probably feel bad about burning the paper and not so much the NFTs because you have what was once referred to as, "common sense" lol. Perhaps for the fact that paper comes from trees, trees are infinite (but not seemingly not all at one time), we need trees to breathe, and so probably it would be a better idea to disappear an NFT, than a tree-- a perspective to feel good about, and rooted in one of the fundamental relationships of human-being. Right.
"Cool concept man." That's about the highest praise I can give.
Divine decadence, read the Spectacle!!!!
Used cars for sale
Yea right create what.
Fry seems uncomfortable. Trying to be diplomatic is hard work.
People use dirty money to buy your art yes...
Baseball cards......
find wollie
This is pretentious and worse still, it's f...... boring.
I love the way Damien Hirst messes with peoples perception of what is art…he is a conceptual thinker and a very interesting problem solver…he is an artist and a performance artist - he pushes boundaries…he’s just not to everyones “taste”…you don’t have to like or buy his art…
After long deliberation I can confirm Damien is my favourite con "artist",a vivid imagination does not make a person an artist,and you my friend are clearly one of his victims. Art is art ,bullshit is bullshit so wallow in it by all means but don't expect others to join you
Your namesake Tracy Emmin was a very close second,just for the record ,
phil collins son
The currency? New concept? Kinda redundant it seems
Rabbit
Saatchi construct. Bless him.
Good to know that hunger and poverty doesn’t exist in their realm.
YES, let’s the kids work effortless on colourfully polka dots and sell to their ancestors!
BTW what is nft, should I Google, cuz the library over here is still closed!
And someone answer: they still accept Visa!
Damien Hirst artist or conman, discuss🤔
It is very sad that art has been reduced to this RUBBISH.
it isn´t rubbish he has so many gorgeous art pieces
This guy has not created one single masterpiece
I think he is just getting rid of a series he didn't want