Encrusted with nearly 9,000 diamonds and worth £50million, one is the latest work by the notorious artist Damien Hirst.
The other is mass-produced in China and costs a mere £128.
My Gosh. There are skulls made out of diamonds, rice, lentils, sequins, pearls, beads, plastic and fabric in every high street in the country so why did the daily mail decide to pick on a piece of chinese jewellry to point out damien hirst is a rip off merchant?
Lets face it - everyone loves skulls! I love the damien hirst skull, just not the price tag, it's probably a rather unethical art buy too. Last Monday, the former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor went on trial in The Hague for war crimes in which diamond trafficking played a major role. just four days before the hirst skll was unveiled
But if coincidence, is it fair to make the link? Should every starry-eyed young couple looking for an engagement ring have to worry about how diamonds are mined in Africa? Need Hirst feel guilty that Taylor allegedly supplied weapons to gangs terrorizing Sierra Leone in the 1990s in exchange for diamonds?
hmm. Watch this space for the 'answer back' object !
2 comments:
gee-yeah
interesting
I actually quite like the piece, Hirst has ackowledged that he's ripping off another artist (someone did a less ostentatious but similar idea recently, can't remember his name)-have you heard George Michael is buying it (and is a big random art collector)-crizazy!
His whole thing is Renaissance bizzle though, he has many apprentices churning his stuff out, he just has the 'vision' so to speak..
anyway it's late I'm rambling
l8r sk8r
x
yeah one of my brother's mates paint the dots in his paintings in a studio near stroud!!
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