Hughesy loses it

Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, has gone and attacked reknown Tate Modern artist, Damien Hirst, saying his work is "tacky" and "absurd" (Daily Telegraph, Monday September 8 2008).

If you look at Hirst's work, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living -- which Hughes stated as being "world's most over-rated marine organism" (which is just a complete load of crap for him to say) -- it's not tacky - different maybe, but considering the conceptual nature of Hirst's art, Hughes is a massive twat for calling it tacky.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

For the Love of God, 2007 (sold of $123 million)

Mother and Child Divided, 1993

Considering that Hirst is probably one of the best YBAs (Young British Artists) to merge out of Europe. To call his work absurd is slightly ironic, considering he aims to be a controversial artist.

My first ever blog-rant. But yeah, Hughes is a massive twat.