http://www.thethirdray.com/conceptual-art/damien-hirst-and-sustainability/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Art, Sustainability, Environment - a blog by Joe Zammit-Lucia Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thethirdray.com/conceptual-art/damien-hirst-and-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-3287 Joe Zammit-Lucia Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:59:43 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=206#comment-3287 Thanks for the comment. Maybe all art is "temporal and very distinct to the time we live in". It is not really possible for us to know how this art will be read in 100 years' time; whether it will be romanticized in the way that, today, we romanticize 100 or 200 year old art even though most of it was just 'painting for hire' and much of it was propaganda for the powerful and wealthy. Today we do live in time of much wealth and much of it polarized. Is that not something that artists should find their own way to comment on? Thanks for the comment. Maybe all art is “temporal and very distinct to the time we live in”. It is not really possible for us to know how this art will be read in 100 years’ time; whether it will be romanticized in the way that, today, we romanticize 100 or 200 year old art even though most of it was just ‘painting for hire’ and much of it was propaganda for the powerful and wealthy. Today we do live in time of much wealth and much of it polarized. Is that not something that artists should find their own way to comment on?

]]> http://www.thethirdray.com/conceptual-art/damien-hirst-and-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-3260 Amanda Anastasia Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:24:20 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=206#comment-3260 It's legacies like that of Damien Hirst that have me scratching my head to the wee hours of the night. I understand his place in the history of art. I just can't buy into it. By commenting that all art is nothing more than a commodity and actively participating in the cycle his work, in my opinion, becomes nothing more than temporal and very distinct to the times we live in. Perhaps I just have a romanticized idea about the purpose of art; in that it should transcend an epoch and all of human existence...not just the fact that we live in a time of excess and very polarized wealth. It’s legacies like that of Damien Hirst that have me scratching my head to the wee hours of the night. I understand his place in the history of art. I just can’t buy into it. By commenting that all art is nothing more than a commodity and actively participating in the cycle his work, in my opinion, becomes nothing more than temporal and very distinct to the times we live in. Perhaps I just have a romanticized idea about the purpose of art; in that it should transcend an epoch and all of human existence…not just the fact that we live in a time of excess and very polarized wealth.

]]> http://www.thethirdray.com/conceptual-art/damien-hirst-and-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Lindsey Matheson Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:15:04 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=206#comment-179 His work may be an interesting commentary as you say, but does it really make him an artist? Or is he a hoaxer or critic? His work may be an interesting commentary as you say, but does it really make him an artist? Or is he a hoaxer or critic?

]]> http://www.thethirdray.com/conceptual-art/damien-hirst-and-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Joe Zammit-Lucia Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:46:25 +0000 http://www.thethirdray.com/?p=206#comment-175 Hi Natalie, thanks for your comment. Actually, I think that, because his art has been such a marvelous window into the fetish for wasteful consumption in our times, I think Hirst will be remembered as one of the great artists of his time. In turn that will make his works continue to be valuable in a self-feeding virtuous circle (if you think it's virtuous!). Now he's got bored with it all and has turned his hand to painting. It would be a shame if he finished his career by changing himself from a great artist to a mediocre painter. Hi Natalie, thanks for your comment. Actually, I think that, because his art has been such a marvelous window into the fetish for wasteful consumption in our times, I think Hirst will be remembered as one of the great artists of his time. In turn that will make his works continue to be valuable in a self-feeding virtuous circle (if you think it’s virtuous!). Now he’s got bored with it all and has turned his hand to painting. It would be a shame if he finished his career by changing himself from a great artist to a mediocre painter.

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