Skull Art Sells for $100 Million

[Elvis Hitler]

I think I know where he got inspiration for this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewel_In_The_Skull

[Phantasm]

Well said, Hippias!

Originally Posted by Hippias

That type of art isn't being produced anymore. There are no geniuses around today like Rodin and Rude creating masterpieces. What we have instead are no-talent nihilists like Damien Hirst and Andres Serrano. Their works don't stir the imagination, lift people's spirits or provoke sublime emotions. Their creations are ugly and only appeal to ugly, nihilistic people.
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I quite agree.

These days we can forget about the controlled manipulation of a medium that comes with true talent.

Hard to believe that Serrano's “Piss Christ” actually won the Visual Arts award at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

That says a lot about what kind of people are running the art world these days.

[Elvis Hitler]

Old thread on this subject

[Jake Featherston]

Tom Wolfe wrote a short book highly criticial of modern art, The Painted Word, which is worth checking out.

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Originally Posted by lovebot

Those teeth look real. Shame he didn't carve them out of gemstones also.

I don't like the crest on the forehead either

Otherwise I agree with Zeal, this thing would look cool on my desk

I don't think "this thing would look cool on my desk" is a good yardstick for artistic value.

The whole point about good art, is that you should get an experience out of it, and it should not be embarrasment for not getting it all the time. Modern art to me often look like an inhouse joke, where they mock the masses for not understanding.

For 100 mill $ you could build a huge sculptural park, or do some other grand scale stuff, and he chooses to makes a jeweled skull... This guy must be called an honorary jew, if is not one already.

[Elvis Hitler]

What's there to "get" about a diamond-encrusted skull

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Originally Posted by lovebot

What's there to "get" about a diamond-encrusted skull

I'd imagine that the artist think the skull has something to say about death and the modern world. Something about how we gloryfy the dead, or how stupid the modern media is for making the object famous, or in the last degreem how stupid the masses and the buyer are, that fall for it all.

Once art is devoured of honesty of emotion, there is very litte left other than jokes and fetishism for the famous objects.

At least this for the incrowd Kitchy painting of Jesus have an honesty of emotion that the Skull miss.

[Elvis Hitler]

THE MAKING OF DAMIEN HIRST’S DIAMOND SKULL…

[Ahknaton]

This is the kind of object that seems custom-made for being stolen by hi-tech jewel thiefs and then tracked down and recovered by a James Bond-style international man of mystery from an underground base. Imagine being an archaeologist and unearthing it 1,000 years from now.

[sugartits]

rich man's Yorick?

Originally Posted by Ahknaton

Imagine being an archaeologist and unearthing it 1,000 years from now.

Until then it will be sitting in some psychotic Dandy's art collection...right beside the gloomy portraits of Baudelaire and contrasted by the creepy, but stylish, photos of 'Mother'.

...he spends many rueful moments conversing with the skull...

"Mummy? Why won’t you speak to me, Mummy?! For the love of god, Mummy!"


well, whatever that was about...whoever purchased this morbid 'disco ball' is cursed to die in vain.