One smart guy--NA--I FIGURE A TRUMPETER WITHOUT A TRUMPET!
Tom, well, even that little number for me falls apart just on account, at a very basic level, the formal qualities are monstrously out: resulting in neither bad or good definitely not shark. It reminds me of the trumpeter without a trumpet. Just for example: the blue poking out at the bottom (way to pay); the brand text above lost to the color and sitting way back (these are basic painting concerns); if it had been a blown-up rendition--in the original Brillo style (following some of design logic of the original packet), then it'd be OK because package designers usually know what they are doing. Hirst has got to get all these notes right, right! It's meant to be a painting? If you intervene you do so with no knowledge (INNOCENCE IS NEVER GUILTY), or full knowledge (A smart criminal) Half knowledge just looks TOO bleak.
Mr. Hirst should already have all this under his belt. That he hasn't gives away the obvious--he's got better things to think about other than fooling around with a thought of some concerted effort towards an art that makes sense not only to the collectors but to those who spend their time making it.
Hirst is at his best when he or anyone else doesn't get too close to what he does--then, forever, it remains floating, impossible to critique.
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Tom, well, even that little number for me falls apart just on account, at a very basic level, the formal qualities are monstrously out: resulting in neither bad or good definitely not shark. It reminds me of the trumpeter without a trumpet. Just for example: the blue poking out at the bottom (way to pay); the brand text above lost to the color and sitting way back (these are basic painting concerns); if it had been a blown-up rendition--in the original Brillo style (following some of design logic of the original packet), then it'd be OK because package designers usually know what they are doing. Hirst has got to get all these notes right, right! It's meant to be a painting? If you intervene you do so with no knowledge (INNOCENCE IS NEVER GUILTY), or full knowledge (A smart criminal) Half knowledge just looks TOO bleak.
Mr. Hirst should already have all this under his belt. That he hasn't gives away the obvious--he's got better things to think about other than fooling around with a thought of some concerted effort towards an art that makes sense not only to the collectors but to those who spend their time making it.
Hirst is at his best when he or anyone else doesn't get too close to what he does--then, forever, it remains floating, impossible to critique.
- Brent Hallard 5-05-2005 5:13 am