Has the world finally discovered damian hirsts' true talent? Posted Thursday, 15th of October

Brian Sewell
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23756950-stop-it-damien-hirst-youre-embarrassing-yourself.do;jsessionid=F5D2C9B5BAF88C12E664A66BDFE633F1
I take this as licence, for this occasion only, to declare this detestable exhibition fucking dreadful.

The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/14/damien-hirst-paintings-wallace-collection
At its worst, Hirst's drawing just looks amateurish and adolescent. His brushwork lacks that oomph and panache that makes you believe in the painter's lies. He can't yet carry it off.

Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/6329047/It-couldnt-get-worse-for-Damien-Hirst.html
Reading Hirst's comments in this Saturday's Telegraph Review, in which he invoked his own name alongside those of genuine 20th century masters such as Bacon and Mark Rothko, you couldn't help feeling you were living in a world that had lost touch with some fundamental reality.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6872591.ece
The paintings are dreadful. Think Francis Bacon meets Adrian Mole.

liamofarrell.com

a quick thought on art Posted Wednesday, 16th of September

To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.Leo Tolstoyvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var [...]

the garden: a new oil painting Posted Friday, 11th of September

I have recently finished another oil painting. ‘The Garden’. Oddly, all the plants are poisonous. You will find Hemlock (little sprigs of white flowers bottom left) among them. Socrates was forced to take Hemlock for upsetting his fellow Greeks. The daddy of them all however would be the Castor plant (the red one mid right). [...]

Where is british art heading? are the yba's really dead? Posted Saturday, 5th of September

I attended a debate at the Mall Galleries Threadneedle Prize this evening. Where is British art heading? Are the YBAs really dead? Who or what is going to replace them? Attending were leading Brit artist Bob and Roberta Smith, writer and broadcaster Brian Sewell and realist painter and Threadneedle selector Jock McFadyen for a lively [...]