As in “horse’s ass”?
Got it in one
Much admired in art colleges all over UK (Czech posters too).
Making money from another artist’s work – uncool. It is Damien Hirst though so…
Severed Spots, 2020
Damien Hirst’s spot paintings have sold for millions at auction – but while most of us may not have that in the bank, could we at least buy an individual spot? MSCHF asked that question with this work. They bought one of Hirst’s prints for $30,485 (£24,000) and sold each of its 88 spots for $480 (£380) at auction. They were all gone within minutes
I clicked on the source link at WilWheaton’s tumblr. Holy cow, have an antivirus running!
Photographer’s site
{I picked the most watery-est looking one}
should we abolish art?
Hell no, especially not now!
The article is less about getting rid of art (as I thought when I clicked on it at first) and more a thoughtful discussion about getting rid of the society of the spectacle around art, and the art market… it advocates for some of the stuff people like Breton and Mondrian were in favor of - making art something that’s more everyday engagement for more people, rather than something only a few people do and the rest of us merely consume as a marker of our class status.
Groovy ideas indeed!
Now on my list
There’s speculation it was Agnès Varda, but her daughter denies it.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-of-lounging-lions-was-hanging-in-a-familys-living-room-it-turned-out-to-be-an-original-delacroix-180986257/
Now ticked off, Hugo’s drawings vary between tight architectural drawings to fantasy and abstract. Many of them seem to begin as a rough brown ink wash and then the imagination takes over with tighter ink drawings applied.
Would recommend, but note that these drawings are fragile, so the light levels are very low, sometimes frustratingly so, and there are some tiny drawings, barely bigger than a postage stamp.