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January 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Adam Sherwin
Last updated at 10:18 AM on 3rd January 2012
David Hockney has criticised Damien Hirst for using an army of assistants to produce the work which is sold solely under his name.
In his first public statement since being honoured by the Queen, Hockney said it was ‘insulting’ for an artist to employ others to make their creations.
He has put up a poster for his new exhibition of landscapes at the Royal Academy which reads: ‘All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally.’
All my own work: David Hockney with one of his paintings
Asked by Andrew Marr for Radio Times if this was a veiled criticism of Hirst – famous for covering a human skull with 8,601 diamonds and suspending a cow and shark in formaldehyde – Hockney nodded and said: ‘It’s a little insulting to craftsmen, skilful craftsmen.’
Yorkshire-born Hockney, 74, has been an internationally renowned painter since the early 1960s when he emerged as a leader of British pop art.
He turned down a knighthood in 1990 but has just accepted the appointment to the prestigious Order of Merit.
Hirst, 46, has also found worldwide fame since breaking through as the enfant terrible of the British art world in the 1990s. But he has boasted that many of his spot paintings – rows of randomly coloured circles – are produced by others because he finds it boring to do the detailed work.
Of 300 spot paintings to be exhibited at a major Hirst show opening in New York next week, only five were produced by the artist.
Shock factor: Damien Hirst has helpers to create his works
Hirst has amassed a £215million fortune from his often shocking works. However, while he gets the credit they are often produced by teams of craftsmen working to his direction.
The £50million diamond-encrusted skull which Hirst exhibited in 2007 was made for him by royal jewellers Bentley Skinner.
A theatrical company, MDM Props of London, helped produce the artist’s stuffed shark.
Hockney, seen as Britain’s greatest living painter, believes that artists should produce their own works.
He said: ‘I used to point out at art school, you can teach the craft, it’s the poetry you can’t teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft.’
Hockney quoted a Chinese proverb that to paint ‘you need the eye, the hand and the heart. Two won’t do’. He added: ‘The other great thing they said – I told this to Lucian Freud – is, ‘‘painting is an old man’s art’’. I like that!’
Returning to Yorkshire after decades in California, Hockney has been working on his latest show, A Bigger Picture, for more than three years. It spans a 50-year period to show his fascination with landscapes.
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Con artist vs true talent. One has to rely on smoke and mirrors all the time, one doesn´t. Guess which one is which one.
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Brit Art was hyped by Charles Saatchi he made a second fortune out of it having sold the successful advertising business he owned with brother Morris.
Perhaps there was a syndrome of ‘The king is in the altogether’ where you could not be critical about the artist quality of works by Hirst or Tracey Emin’s unmade bed which Saatchi has in a room in his house. So s this expensive rubbish really art or merely something the art world fawns over?
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I agree with him 100%. It makes me cring when I see these so called works of art that are….well…..NOT! Well said Mr Hockney and good for you for standing up for real art.
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Baksy is more talented, and its 100% Banksy. He;’s the one they should be honouring. Emin and Hirst are just conmen selling junk snake oil, and its nothing to do with art.
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Well said that man….ARTIST!!!…….Hockney !. The mating of the art machine and Saachi spawned a number of talentless egos.
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I agree with David Hockney that Hirst like many others now posing as ‘artists’ are very far from being the true artists as we recognise in the name of Picasso, Monet, and Rembrandt, Turner etc who were able to create a work of art by their own skill and their understanding of their craft. There are now too many who see an opportunity to exploit and make a great deal of money in an art world now inhabited by deceit . Take a look at the ‘ Angel of the North ‘ the so called ‘artist’ who claims it as his work had to have it made in a North East Engineering workshop by men who had learnt their skill in a Shipyard, the ‘artist’ didn’t even know how to make the object he had drawn on a piece of paper !..at least when Henry Moor got a block of granite, a hammer and chisel, then what he created was a work of art by his own effort ,like the work of David Hockney who’s work is real, and from people who enjoy art worthy of praise.
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But what is ‘Art’?
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Hockney is a true artist whose talent surpasses all others. To compare him with the talentless Hirst is like comparing a silk purse with a sows ear. Hirst once said: “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.’ Well he’s certainly doing that, and has also managed to fool all of the art world all of the time that he is an artist. The tripe that is churned out nowadays and labelled ‘art’ is positively embarrasing. Another of our great painters, Turner, must be spinning in his grave at the rubbish that is given awards in his name.
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The producers “art” of the Hirst variety should not even be deemed artist regardless of whether he produces it himself or has Santa’s dwarfs to help him. Floating a calf in formaldehyde requires as much artistic talent as filling a bucket of with water. I know the “expert” will say it is the concept that is “brilliant” really!
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Then there’s Tracy Emin’s Beach Hut. Someone else designs and builds the beach hut, then many years later Tracy Emin removes it from the Whitstable seafront and it suddenly becomes her “art installation”? I don’t call that art, I call it passing the work of someone else off, as your own.
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