This'll be my blog to chart my progress as a fledgling artist. I like doing mostly anime and manga style work, but realism has it's appeals to.
Now that's out of the way, here's an article about a lowlife that make all artists look bad: Time: Bad Boy Makes Good.
This guy in my humble opinion a low down dog. Now I can have grudging respect for people who do what I consider "stranger" art like abstract, or performance art, but Hirst is just a lazy bastard who makes a ton of cash off work his assistants make and he signs his name on. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but to me it's not one's own art, unless one creates with their own two hands.
Aside from him profiting from stuff he didn't even create, a lot of the stuff he makes is just bullshit.
The diamond encrusted skull, and the shark in the tank of formaldehyde? Anyone could create something like that. A true artist creates something from scratch instead of tossing together something anyone could do.
Fortunantly, Hirst and his bunch, "The Young British Artists" have some opposition. They call themselves "The Stuckists" and they plainly state in their manifesto: "Artists who don't paint, aren't artists."(I take this to mean also that you can't really call yourself an artist if you don't actually create something, that is, sculpt it, photograph it, or draw it yourself.). Here's their website: Stuckism.
