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RE: Damien Hirst’s Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Have you seen Jeff Koons' new series "Gazing Ball"?
A mindless rip off of Old Masters.
Have you seen Jeff Koons' new series "Gazing Ball"?
A mindless rip off of Old Masters.
I got Koons out of my system - I wrote some blogs about his crap quite some time ago, so now I pay no attention.
Here is one of them:
https://artofthemystic.blogspot.co.at/2013/12/laokoon-anti-laokoon-and-anti-koons.html
might be an idea to re-post it, but it is quite dated by now.
OK, curiosity killed the cat and I followed your link. Not only is it a rip-off of old masters, but taking a leaf out of Marcel Duchamp's playbook - painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa., almost 100 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
The winds of change are blowing, these guys feel it, and they are desperately trying to stay relevant. However, mass produced product will not cut it in the end, because people year for the story of the real artist behind the creation, not a production manager.