Hussein Chalayan and Post Modern Fashion

Hussein Chalayan

Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work, and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.

1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burkafashion, or are they art? What is the difference? Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion? 

Fashion

Hussein Chalayan, Burka (1996) 

Burkafashion is a set of words put together. The term burka is an Arabic term formed by the Islamic. Burka may also be referred to as Burqa which is a garment worn by women over their faces only showing their eyes and is traditional garment worn over their bodies also to cover their skin except their eyes.

A Burka can also mean Caucasus a traditional man's coat made from felt or karakul. Burka is also a district in Baghlan province, Afghanistan. So Burkafashion is a style which he formed to put together with a traditional piece and mix it with post modern style.

For the Burka Fashion style, I think that he is trying to play with the official seriousness of the cultural tradition and challenging its tradition not to produce an uproar but to broadcast the meaning of the 

Burka transitioning into post modern work, but in my opinion I see that this is art and fashion because fashion is a part of creativity which relates to the artistic mind ones self concious into developing work.

                         Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords, 2000

 Afterwords is a term related to Epiloque which is a short speech or poem in this case shown through art work/ fashion at the end of a literary work. (Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus (p.277)

For the 'Afterwords' fashion/art work , I feel that this piece is an artwork because you can use it for display for an event but i don't see it as something you would wear out or formal because of its look and structure, this seems as it was made for only art to see but not to be worn out or bought. Putting the viewer in the position of reading what this really means and how the discomfort of wearing this piece would make you feel. To me this piece is giving the viewer something to think of, its telling you a story with few detail but a lot of structure. 

In viewing both of the works and researching the meaning of the words and reading the image, this gives me a different perspective of what is fashion? what makes fashion? what is the difference, I see that the meaning of a piece of work defines its category, fashion or not fashion, it depends on the meaning. For example the Burka, i don't think you'd see someone walking around revealing their bodies and wearing it as a fashion trend. I think fashion is something that can be worn out and where people will see you wearing. The difference between the to in my opinion is that fashion art can be anything but for fashion in general it is things people wear for others to see and be comfortable and isn't as unusual as the Burka and Afterwords. 

2. Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?

It is still art because they are regenerating ideas from another but instead developing it to relate to their theme and nothing is original, the ideas of arts has to have come from something. Forms of art can be developed through simple things and things already created. I don't thing the meaning of art changes if it is used to sell products, i see that it is also selling the art and the designs attracting people and finding out the meaning of it. 

3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?

Post Modern, Contemporary, Modern and Hyper Reality. They might have been inspired by Chalayn's work by the meaning behind the piece or either the grasping concept of his work. They may be using clothing but they are also using DNA which involve the people in it. I think the approach they are taking from Chalayn's ideas are from the tradition within which grasps the true nature of what is within and unveiling it to the viewer.

Hussein Chalayan, still from Absent Presence, 2005 (motion picture)

4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now(2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?

In my opinion I think it is the artist's piece because without the artist the work wouldn't have been made and also he created the idea of what should happen what it should look like and also instructing the helpers what to do. Why ? because he is the artist and creator of the work. When ? when he has thought of the creation and helps develop the idea, an artist must have help with something. It all depends on the artists creation and whoever thought of it and instructed it , they are the true artist. The one who gets it done or tells them how to. But on the other hand there is still a chance that the artist isn't the only artist, there are those who helped. 

Reference:

http://www.aims.org.af/maps/district/baghlan/burka.pdf

Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus (p.277)

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/chalayan.html http://www.husseinchalayan.com/blog/ 

http://www.husseinchalayan.com/#/home/

http://www.slideshare.net/cjmcd/the-history-of-the-burqa

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Caucasus

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epilogue

Post-Modernism - Ai Weiwei and Banksy

1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.

• The term is used in philosophy, literature, social sciences and architecture.
• It is composed by two parts 'post' and 'modern'. Post is Latin for after and modernism refers to the modern period.
• Is associated with relativism. Relativism is the idea that "anything goes"
• No grand narrative, a history, story . One has left the idea of a grand narrative.
• Belief in one truth, or universal criteria, has been substituted by a number if "small stories" and a diversity of criteria.
• Social constructivism, reality is created by social reality, there is no objective knowledge or absolute representation of reality.
• Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality
• a style and concept in the arts characterized by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions.
• relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: 'It [a roadhouse] is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock

2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.(page 24)
"The post modern artist is "reflexive" in that he/she is self aware and consciously  involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a de-constructive manner, "de-masking" pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness."

My definition:
Post modern artist are creators of work that relate to themselves in some way and also show who they are through their works and show it in different ways of revealing what is inside of themselves. 

3. Use the table on pages 47 and 48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.

Hyper reality, image saturation, simulacra seem more powerful than the "real": images and texts with no prior "original". "As seen on TV" and "as seen on MTV" are more powerful than unmediated experience.

Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness, subversion of earnestness.

Use this summary to answer the next two questions.

4. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post-Modern.

'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei

"Hyper reality, image saturation, simulacra seem more powerful than the "real": images and texts with no prior "original". "As seen on TV" and "as seen on MTV" are more powerful than unmediated experience."

Considered to be post modern with these features because the logo on the ancient artefact was notice more then the artefact and more powerful.

Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynast Urn.

"Play, irony, challenge to official seriousness, subversion of earnestness." 

In this work of his he shows this feature because he opposes the history of the antique and challenges its official meaning and this was shocking to some who knew of the history of the object. Which is a serious thing. He used history from his culture and challenged official seriousness of the object. 

6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.

'Flower Riot', Banksy

In the 'Flower Riot' by Banksy, he uses colour and comic like featured form to emphasize post-modernisation. This can be defined as post modern from the opposing images and relativity to society that the image is perceiving. The hoodlum figure is portrayed by holding flowers and this isn't a regular thing for a person like that to hold and you don't see someone dressed like that holding a bouquet that is colourful. Both figures contradict one another and also the meaning of what you see and what it actually means. Sending a symbolic message of war and conquering it with peacefulness.

Los Angeles (2008), Banksy

In the work 'Los Angeles' Banksy, he uses the ancient human form of cave man years to emphasize history of the earth and the present with the food tray. Past and present which are opposites of one another. This is showing post modernism from the philosphy view of things and he shows within his work the nature and reality of existance. In other words seeing we once were cave people and showing the formation of how we came to be and if we were still formed like this. 

Bibliography:

http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/78/DevastatingHistory
http://melroseandfairfax.blogspot.co.nz/2011/04/banksys-riot-painting.htm
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/postmodernism?view=uk 
http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/postm-body.html 
Ruth Reichl, Cook's November 1989; American Heritage Dictionary's definition of "postmodern 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/03/11/how-china-conquered-the-art-world.html
http://theworldsbestever.com/2008/02/new_banksy_pieces_surface_in_l.php
http://timmarshall20.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/postmodernism-style-and-subversion-1970-1990-at-the-v-a-20th-century-toys-boys-and-girls/l
Saugstad, A. (2001). Postmernism: what is it, and what is wrong with it? Retrieved 9 October, 2007 from: http://goinside.com/01/1/postmod.html
Witcombe, C (2000) Modernism & Post Modernism. Retrieved 29 January, 2004 from http://witcombe.sbc.edu?modernism/modpostmod.html
ALVC Resource book

Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'

1) What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?

Claymation is an animation of fine grained earth which is 

moulded into figures that are placed in certain position and captured on film each time the figure is re-positioned in a way that would make the figure seem like it has movement when images are put together animation.

2) What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?

The Surrealistic Garden of Eden is made of two different meanings. "Surrealistic" is a combination of inappropriate or distorted images, something in a dream. This is a combination of images that are misplaced and put in odd places or made specifically to twist your thoughts of what it actually is. As for "Garden of Eden" this is where the opposite of surrealistic is shown, the Garden of Eden in biblical terms was "the Garden of God" where paradise was.God had placed Adam and Eve there and forbid them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil but they disobeyed what he had told them and were deprived from the Garden of Eden. So putting Surrealistic and Garden of Eden together explains how twisted and distorted her work is with the opposite scenery of how a garden is meant to look. We usually see gardens as relaxing and peaceful but she shows the opposite. "All that is natural goes awry" , Awry means A twist to one side something negative. And "All that is natural" is words that symbolise the living and the things that have life and that are real. To put those together that would give the meaning that the things that have life and that are real and are living will end up going wrong or end badly. For this we understand that Djurberg's art theme represents death and pain, so "All that is natural goes awry" is stating that all the living things will end up on one side which is death.

3) What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?

The Different types of feelings and vibes that Djurberg comes face to face with us is mostly directed strait to life and death. Some feelings that show through Djurberg's "Towering Clay Flowers" is Pain, Anger, Fear and also pleasure. These emotions that are within her work confront us with how we could see the other perspective of living things and how the beautiful can be ugly. Pain, Anger and fear are the most obvious vibes you get from the artwork. She confronts us with these emotions to change our perspective of how the living natural things of the earth are non-living, also reminding us of death and that it is always on the other corner.

4) How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?

Djurbuerg show's the negative side of children stories and is showing the original reasons and meanings for the "children stories" and to why they were created. She focuses more on sending out a message of seeing beyond what the story is saying rather than listening to what is said in words and imagine it clearer for you to imagine what is behind the true words and think of the negative side of things. Leaving you question what is in-front of you rather than leave it as it is. When seeing her work she gives a different perspective of a child stories for more mature audience to understand what she is doing. 

5) There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?

I think that designers are trying out new styles and ways to bringing things out into the world and the art industry. In this time the innocent are not so much innocent , people now can see through things and people. Seeing the real thing behind the fake things, giving them the chance to be able to view things for what it will be in the future or what it actually is, for example a Flower is beautiful and has a nice scent of smells but for someone who has allergies from flowers may see it has harmful and this is another way of seeing the innocent things and making it seem disturbing. The world has alot of positive things but also negative, I think designers are just trying to bring that out more and make people realize with their own eyes what is really in-front of them. 

6) In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?

In my opinion I think Djurberg's work was chosen for the Venice Biennale because she showed a new form, style of art movement and was a different style that intrigued people in that time and also was very different to what other artist were doing. Another reason why her work was interesting is the theme she chose to portray in her works and giving her audience a vibe and feeling whilst looking at her work and trying to understand what she is trying to bring out in her work.

7) Add some of your own personal comments on her work. 

In this work of hers I like the media she has used to bring out the birds and the colours, enlarging the size of birds and playing around with their colours and making them look more interesting and fantasy like. 

© Nathalie Djurberg The Parade, 2011 Installation view: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2011. Courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Photo: Gene Pittman

Bibliography:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/clay

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/animation.html

Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus(2007), Harper Collins Publishers , (P. 806, 57)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden

Photos "Towering Clay Flowers" :

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nathalie-djurberg#!/photos/47242/1

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nathalie-djurberg#!/photos/47242/5

Photo "The Parade":

http://artnews.org/newmuseum/?exi=33236

The Social Status of the Artis - The Renaissance and now

Self Portrait in Fur Coat (1500)

Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer's 'Self-Portrait in Fur Coat' (1500) shows a significant change in the way that the artist views and portrays himself. ;

1. Identify aspects of Durer's self portrait that show a changing view of the artist's view of himself as an individual.

The way that Durer has portrayed himself in the painting shows pride and wealth. He used the posture of how he has being portrayed to symbolize his power, he had made himself look almost Jesus like in the painting with the long hair and beard. For that is how people imagined Jesus to look like. The view of himself that he gives is that he is the best and that he views himself as an individual with skill and intelligence of a high master. Comparison between him and Jesus is made in this painting.

2. Explain how the artist's social status increased during the Renaissance period. Briefly explain why this happened.

Durer's social status increased during the Renaissance period because of the painting of himself which was viewed around. The reason for him being noticed was because of the renaissance period people were religious and the shift of humanism had just begun to sin into the world. People were in shock that Durer would paint himself Jesus like, that is how he became to be well known.

3. Comment on Gavin Turk's work in relation to individualism, status of the artist and egotism.

Knob (1997) Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk's individuality is based around the theme concept of pop art and old vintage style. He brings out his individualism with the concept of using himself in the art works an making it relate towards him. The egotism shown in his works are of his name and his posture of how he relates himself within his work to show that he can be the work and make it based about him. He became well known for his equating with famous people.

4. Comment on Damien Hirst's use of his work and the media for self promotion.

Damien Hirst and Maia Norman (1995)

Damien Hirst uses his work to promote not only himself but the media used in his work. He uses his work in a way that the wealth will be attracted to and also finds ways to attract people to his art by remaking something that has been done and making it something of his own but using media that the world has now thought of as priceless and something that will always grab peoples attention. the self promotion that he gives himself is not a serious matter to him but i think while reading more and studying into this matter Damien Hirst is showing his personality more with his art and being out there rather than not been seen and only focusing on the art when you can find out the artist himself and how the art works were to be.

5. Find 2 images of work by any artist or designer that reflect some of the ideas of individualism, self promotion or egotism that have been discussed on this blog. Upload images to your blog, title and date the work, identify the artist/designer and comment on the work in relation to the question.

"Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali"
1931
Oil on canvas

This work seeks deep within what time is and what was. The memory of being remembered and to be forgotten. Dali shows individualism from what he has painted from his mind and thought, he shows a personality and skill that can only be comprehended by that fact of having individuality. As personality has shown of interest and style that is different to ordinary painters/artists who seek for persistence in skill and technique and in what really is true than what isn't possible. Salvador Dali was really famous from all his works because it was different and showed a unique style of individuality. Being different was what made him famous in his art.


"Roy Lichtenstein - Drowning Girl"
1963
Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas


Lichtenstein's individual aspect of art was based around the style of pop art and focused more on the variety of comics and typography and colour. He used the old style of comics to create his own art works of stories that show emotion and also keep that comic style in it. Bases around the women's life and vanity that is skin deep within some women. He seeks the interpretation of how women see themselves. He divides himself in the art with his scenarios and the emotions that are put in the artwork. He became a well known pop art artist and with his creativity of making the comic book strip style more famous than ever and keeping it in style and changing it into a new form of art.

6. How do you think artists and designers are viewed in Western society today?

I think artists and designers are viewed as individuals in society today, because of the new expression and style that they give and not only the look has changed the personality and meaning of what artists and designers produce. They play a big role in modern society and have got people to focus more on what the art means and have now understood the meaning of artists and designers in our time. They are accepted more now than before and can find more to do with their interest now and are able to produce artworks any how with the acceptance of people today.

Reference:

Notes in ALVC- Renaissance and Humanism (Durer)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

http://www.authenticsociety.com/about/ThePersistenceOfMemory_Dali 

http://www.artsz.org/lichtenstein-pop-art-drowning-girl/

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/self/

http://radicalart.info/ego/statements/index.html

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG7733481/Maia-Norman-Damien-Hirsts-Californian-girl.html

Humanism and contemporary sculpture.

Ron Mueck's sculpture and Humanism

Mask II (2002) Ron Mueck

A girl (2006) Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck has become internationally recognised for his unique sculptures, which replicate the human figure with unrivalled technical skill. His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.

1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and explain how it is evident in his work. 

Exaggerated in comparison to reality, extremely realistic in detail. In form which comparison to reality is made more realistic to than it really is but with a difference that is impossible to be true. 

2. Mueck says he is not interested in making life size sculpture. Find out why he is more interested in working with the scale of the figure which is not life size, and mention 2 works which use scale that is either larger or smaller than life.

He expresses the need of wanting to make adjustments beyond the physical image and to maximize the appearance and emotional expression of his sculptures. He finds it more interesting to dramatise the feeling of how an image should be seen and also wanting to allow people to look into the sculptures and realize that there is more to be seen within the skin.

Ron Mueck has never made a life size figure because it never seemed interesting to him. Quote" We meet life sized people every day". Ron mueck makes us realise that imagination can be played with and brought into the lif like things of our normality and how things can be configured.

Ron Muecks shows in the 2 sculptures that size can be changed and emotions can be expressed further with size to be bigger and seen or to be smaller and more detailed.

In the "Big Man"                                     In the "2 old woman"

3. Define Renaissance Humanism , and identify which aspects of Humanism can be seen in Mueck's work.

Renaissance Humanism is an outlook of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than supernatural spiritual matters, the pass through from the medival culture forming to humanist. Expression of forming art from within ones self.

The aspects from where Humanism can be seen in Ron Mueck's sculptures are seen from the way he uses different techniques and skill of process and development into the sculpture. The facial and body details are a way of showing expression and naturalism that has been focused on and dramatised to the human eye. Ron Mueck's freedom of art shows that humanism is shown all over his work from size, detail and subject, to have chosen the media and subject to what his interest is in and to express it.

4. Research and discuss one of Mueck's sculptures that you might find challenging or exciting to experience in an art gallery. Describe the work, upload an image of the work, and explain your personal response to the work. 

I find that Ron Muecks "Crouching Boy" is one of the most interesting sculpture of his works i have come across. He uses alot of depth in this and also gives the illusion as the boy cannot fit in the room and i like how he uses the space around him to seem as if he is enormously oversized in height. The facial expression that the boy gives seems like he is afraid or is hiding and also how his body is close to his feet and crouching like he is afraid and in hiding.

The level of skill that Ron Mueck has is inspiring to me and to others, the way he uses the materials and space to make the sculpture become life like but hyper real is a amazing. 

Body detail is one of the most fascinating arts i see of this work. Use of dimension and shadows.

  

"Crouching Boy"

Reference websites and books used at the end of your blog.

http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?start=21&num=10&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=610&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=LCsRu4bPNtOMjM:&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/61513809&docid=nlMLH9j84WCt0M&itg=1&imgurl=http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/61513809.jpg&w=500&h=382&ei=_Il_T6-IBOr2mAWqwr2OCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=817&vpy=199&dur=2438&hovh=196&hovw=257&tx=179&ty=143&sig=101228893083411305350&page=2&tbnh=138&tbnw=158&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:21,i:13

http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=610&tbm=isch&tbnid=nb4TATAkYXve4M:&imgrefurl=http://artboom.info/sculpting/ron-mueck-hyper-realistic-human-sculptures.html/attachment/ron-mueck-hyper-realistic-human-sculptures-14&docid=TmGuN7TtHkJL-M&imgurl=http://artboom.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ron-Mueck-Hyper-realistic-Human-Sculptures-14.jpg&w=1200&h=1600&ei=pX1_T47QNYPRmAXixMCHCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=108&vpy=221&dur=521&hovh=259&hovw=194&tx=117&ty=286&sig=101228893083411305350&page=3&tbnh=121&tbnw=90&start=48&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:48,i:255

http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag03/jul_aug03/mueck/mueck.shtml

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/816457/ron_mueck_australian_hyperrealist_sculptor/

christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/ron-mueck/

Damien Hirst's work 'For the Love of God' and Mercantilism

For the Love of God(2007) Damien Hirst

1. Describe the work, giving details of the form and materials. 

Damien Hirst uses Platinum and diamonds that have been encrusted into a skull formed object
There are 8,601 diamonds encrusted into the platinum skull, he used real human skull from the 18th century which he bought from London.
-
2. What does the work mean? What is Damien Hirst communicating in the work?


Damien Hirst's art focuses around the subject of death and he follows up on his artwork by using the same theme and idea. The "For the love of god" was his remake of another piece of work he found interesting which was based around a Mexican art work which focused on the deoration of a skull. He then decided to recreate his own style that was on death because it was a heavy subject.
-
3. How does Hirst's diamond encrusted skull relate to Mercantilism and to conspicuous consumption?


The diamonds encrusted into the skull relate to Mercantilism because of the pricing and antiquity of it on its own. Diamonds are thought of as being a merchandise and are of a high standard with how much it would be worth. The skull itself is a merchandise, the 18th century skull holds the past and other historical aspects which would cost a fortune and for Damien Hirst to put the two of diamonds and skull together to conjoin was an interesting idea which revolves around the antiquity of the piece.
-
4. How much did the work cost, and how much was it sold for, and who bought it?


"For the love of god " was sold for 50million in euro's.His work was sold anonymously and has not given out information on who bought the skull.


-
5. What are some of the differing opinions of the journalists in the newspaper and blog articles?
   What did they think of the work?


"Richard Dorment, art critic of The Daily Telegraph,  "If anyone but Hirst had made this curious object, we would be struck by its vulgarity. It looks like the kind of thing Asprey or Harrods might sell to credulous visitors from the oil states with unlimited amounts of money to spend, little taste, and no knowledge of art. I can imagine it gracing the drawing room of some African dictator or Colombian drug baron. But not just anyone made it - Hirst did. Knowing this, we look at it in a different way and realise that in the most brutal, direct way possible, For the Love of God questions something about the morality of art and money."






-
6. Based on your research, what is your opinion of the work, as an object or a work of art.


Damien Hirst has a very unique way of thinking how to contribute how criticism is like now days and found a way the media would be intrigued in the making of his art work and idea. not only did he involve media but grabbed the attention of the people in high riches who are familiar with this type of work and focused the artwork more around the merchant of the piece and also created and an object from an historical artefact and made it worth more than it already is including an expensive supply of diamonds which attracts the gazes of eye upon his work with how the world sees art and objects of how expensive it looks. I see his work as art and also an object of jewels.

References:



www.telegraph.co.uk › Culture › Culture News
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/.../01/hirstsskullmakesdazzlingde
boingboing.net/2007/06/02/damien-hirsts-diamon.html 
www.gagosian.com/artists/damien-hirst/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God#Media_reporting_and_reviews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God#cite_note-Yahoo_Music-6
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/magazine/03Style-skull-t.html