While there are cunts to buy it
cunts will make it! I give you Damien Hirst's £50million skull
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:27, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I really like that skull.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Looks like it belongs in the last Indiana Jones film

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Looks like dozens of ancient artifacts made for kings/tribal leaders since prehistoric times
just even more so because we're now able to get £13million of diamonds and platinum if we want and can afford it.
I also like that it did cost £50 million, that way it goes to the current "kings and tribal leaders" usually some cunt from Russia or Wall Street.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Then you're a div, quite frankly
it's garish and pointless, and what's more, any dickhead with a skull, some diamante and a fucking glue gun could make it - no talent was required whatsoever.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:35, Reply)

That's kind of part of the point.
It's more annoying, though, that Hirst actually is a very good "proper" contemporary artist. He just chooses to produce that sort of shite because wankers will pay for it. disturbing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:39, Reply)

A dead shark in a tank isn't art though, its science
and thus belongs in a musuem or suchlike, not some Russian oligarch's house
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

You could argue that all Art should belong in Museums as well.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

To my mind, art requires some kind of skill
painting, drawing, sculpture

NOT a fucking chainsaw and a fish
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I saw Michaelangelo's David when I was 9
Fucking incredible, the detail is just phenomenal.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

That is art!
Stuff like the Sistine chapel, etc
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

eleventy billion times this ^
If I could make it (given the right materials obviously) then it's not fucking art.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

I disagree.
With the right training most people (who aren't spackhanded retards) could copy almost any piece of art. So, therefore, you could make most of these things. What you couldn't do is make it originally, because you didn't have the idea. Ideas are just as much skill as being able to weild a brush or a chisel or a violin bow.

But, I still think Hirst's stuff is shite, mind.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Every month or soo I get someone who wants me to build a website, where they tell me the idea, get upset when I ask logic questions, and then say I can have 50% if I do 100% of the work and investment.
Most of the time they're porn related.

"I go around fucking these chicks, and we pay them, and we do it on video, and then sale the videos".

Or

"Facebook, yeah', £25b, yeah', how about we make a website that's like facebook, only it's for pugs. We'll make a fortune, there must be loads of pugs owners out there who want to share their pugs."

or

"Yeah', just like google, only it would belong to us".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:36, Reply)

They are _not_ website developers, designers or even conceptionalists.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 12:37, Reply)

You need skill to use a chainsaw
and what about sculpture, they use hammers and wooden sculptures use chainsaws.
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to cut a shark in half and preserve it.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

If it was alive it would be difficult, yes
Do you think he actually did it?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Really depend on your definition of art.
I mean, I pretty much agree, but others certainly would argue that as long as it is willingly displayed and appreciated it can be classed as art.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:43, Reply)

This is one of the many reasons he's a cunt.

(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:42, Reply)

..."and that was Art Today with berk"
"Tune in tomorrow to find out why Monet's 'Impression Sunrise' looks like it was painted buy her 3 year old niece"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)

"and why Van Gogh was useless cunt who couldn't even paint a chair straight"

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

or kill himself properly
he shot himself in the stomach, THE STOMACH! Unless every cowboy movie has lied to me, that's the worst place to get shot.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

What a grade A shining example of cunthood that man is
I would cheerfully rip his actual skull out THROUGH HIS SKIN and piss on it. Bollocks to the diamonds.
(berk, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:30, Reply)

I love you berk!
This ^ is a modern art show I would pay to see
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Charles Saatchi would buy that for a squillion pounds

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:36, Reply)

and get Nigella to piss on it!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Still can't believe she's 50

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:40, Reply)

Actually
I got more than a glimpse of Nigel in her show a few weeks ago. Put me right off my stroke
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I would pay good money to be there when she does that.
The whole skull bit is irrelivent to my interests though.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

He is probably crap at baking cakes as well.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 11:37, Reply)