To clarify what I mean, let me direct you towards Damien Hirst and that pop art chick who i can't remember the name of. Damien Hirst now only directs his assistants to create the work for him, yet still sells it as his own. The pop art chick, while she used to create the images herself, now only gives computer codes to computer guys so that the images is generated for her. It seems to me that the artist is now a redundant figure in terms of hands on work at least. Doesn't this suggest that fine art is becoming design? Saying this, Leonardo Da Vinci also had little scampering boy apprentices to paint for him, but he had so much else on his plate, yknow? And all Damien Hirst does is sit in his cottage in Devon and eat clotted cream.
2006-10-31
22:31:51
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Lauren F
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