As much art as my fart.
Damien Hirst - For the Love of God, 2007Damien Hirst is one of my current faves. I also love Jenny Saville's paintings (she was in the Brooklyn Museum Sensation exhibit with him in 99 and I lovvvvved them both. That's when DH was doing cross sections of whole animals in tanks of formaldehyde)
Platinum, diamonds and human teeth
171 x 127 x 190 mm | 6.7 x 5 x 7.5 in
Sculpture
(http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS57963qR_771_0.jpg)
“I just thought, ‘What can you pit against death?”[1]
‘For the Love of God’, a platinum skull set with diamonds, is one of Hirst’s most important and widely recognised works. Its raw materials define it as an artwork of unprecedented scale. The 32 platinum plates making up ‘For the Love of God’ are set with 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé-set diamonds, weighing a massive 1,106.18 carats. The teeth inserted into the jaw are real and belong to the original skull.
The skull from which ‘For the Love of God’ was cast, was purchased from a London taxidermist and subsequently subjected to intensive bioarchaeological analysis and radiocarbon dating. This research revealed it dated from around 1720 - 1810, and was likely to be that of a 35-year-old man of European/Mediterranean ancestry. The title originates from exclamations Hirst’s mother would make on hearing plans for new works when he was starting out as an artist. As he explains: “She used to say, ‘For the love of God, what are you going to do next!’”
‘For the Love of God’ acts as a reminder that our existence on earth is transient. Hirst combined the imagery of classic memento mori with inspiration drawn from Aztec skulls and the Mexican love of decoration and attitude towards death. He explains of death: “You don’t like it, so you disguise it or you decorate it to make it look like something bearable – to such an extent that it becomes something else.”[2]
The incorporation of the large central stone was inspired by memories of the comic ‘2000 AD’, which Hirst used to read as a child. He relates how the comic, “used to have a character in it called Tharg the Mighty who had a circle on his forehead. He was like a kind of powerful, God-like figure who controlled the universe,” Hirst explains. “It kind of just looked like it needed something. A third eye; a connection to Jesus and his dad.”[3]
Alongside their dazzling brilliance and “Eucharistic” beauty, Hirst’s fascination with diamonds results partly from the mutterings and uncertainty surrounding their inherent worth. In the face of the industry’s ability to establish their irreplaceable value, it becomes necessary to question whether they are “just a bit of glass, with accumulated metaphorical significance? Or [whether they] are genuine objects of supreme beauty connected with life.”[4] The cutthroat nature of the diamond industry, and the capitalist society which supports it, is central to the work’s concept. Hirst explains that the stones “bring out the best and the worst in people […] people kill for diamonds, they kill each other”.[5]
In 2010, Hirst created a second, baby diamond skull called ‘For Heaven’s Sake’ using pink diamonds.
http://www.damienhirst.com/for-the-love-of-god
thanks for contributing, Lobs. :)Haha, I know this stuff better than I know bodybuilding. I'm stoked this thread even exists on getbig!
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Lobstah, are these two famous American people?Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins? I'd say so!
from the controversial artist Dan Park:.....Anders Breivik?....
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Artist: Gustav Klimt
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.....Anders Breivik?....
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From the Ndugu Collection.
From that movie with Jack Nicholson, right?
Yes, sir.
Great actor, but a boring & depressing movie (forgot its name)
Depressing, yes. Boring? Hell no, not to me. About Schmidt. Fantastic, my friend.
Synopsis: A man has just retired after working for an insurance company for decades. He experiences a mid life crisis (how to spend your day being retired?), his annoying wife dies and then he rides with his camper to his daughter who marries a Johnnie Falcon kind of guy.
Can you please explain me what's 'fantastic' about this tragedy?
Simple: Nicholson.
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(http://slowsoulburn.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hr-giger-erotomechanics-vii1.jpg)wow great pic!
This thread provides a positive distraction when you're experiencing a dip
thank you buddy :)
A developed body without an equally well-cultivated mind and soul (Geist) is fit to be ridiculed as garbage.
Check out this scene from Copying Beethoven (2006).
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Is that rectangular man with the oversized beer mug fucking a mailbox?
tab it to view bigger image:
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(http://keithtyson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Inertia_Slide.jpg)This one is a killer ;D
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I have a Russian avant-garde collection maybe 15 or so on canvas, I might post it since you've put energy into this thread....
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acrylic?
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please stop spamming this thread with this shit.
please stop spamming this thread with this shit.
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This one totally sucks, bro. So does Jif - it's just a peanut butter jar, how is that art?
Is honest critique considered "spamming" or whatever? Because those two are shit.
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https://500px.com/shume
Very cool stuff, esp this (https://500px.com/photo/116836411/new-hope-by-micha%C5%82-klimczak?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=7117953) one
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The foremost purpose of performance art has almost always been to challenge the conventions of traditional forms of visual art such as painting and sculpture.
When these modes no longer seem to answer artists' needs - when they seem too conservative, or too enmeshed in the traditional art world and too distant from ordinary people - artists have often turned to performance in order to find new audiences and test new ideas.
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lol, fuck, thats actually funny.
all of that is complete nonsense, from an ignorant, perverted, blind, unintelligent mind; you know nothing of art, the art establishment or the forces that mold it. I find the fact that you are still alive to be highly fucking annoying.
you are annoyed because I call you on your ignorance
thats rich. die of old age already.... like you're supposed to.
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whos the artist?
Jean Delville. This painting is called "Les Trésors de Sathan".
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Dejected couch. Sad.
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I love this channel. He's created some brilliant videos.
(https://artuk.org/download/never-morning-wore-to-evening-but-some-heart-did-break-33805)