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Hogwarts is REAL.
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I have never seen any of his pieces in person, but I do like his animal works in which the animals are cross sectioned, and then juxtaposed with other animals or their other halves. I like The Golden Calf, where the calf has been fitted with golden hooves and horns. And I dare say it, I like The Broken Dream.
I do not quite see the difference between these works with animals and with the butterflies (except of course the allegations of using endangered butterflies). And for once, the money is not going to him, it is going to charity.
The use of already dead animals to make a statement within art is okay by me. Butterflies are a symbol of recovery and regeneration which is why I assume they are being used for a Lance Armstrong bicylce. They represent the survival of cancer and regeneration and flourishing of the body.
I do not support killing animals for the sole purpose of art. I'm looking at you Guillermo Vargas; purposely starving a dog while it is tied to the wall in an art gallery, in order to make a statement about how all the starving street animals go unnoticed... yeah not so much.
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In all, I collected 242,235,122 pounds of game. I was able to carry 12 of it back to my wagon. PETA was mad, but you should have seen how the local Native Americans reacted.
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That "you were only able to carry x pounds back to your wagon" crap always annoyed me. I was like, can't I get my lazy-ass family to help? Make a second trip, perhaps? Share with other wagons? Buffalo cookout party at my campsite tonight! Be there or die of dysentery.
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I kind of think using them for something beautiful is better than letting them rot.
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It's presumptuous of us to believe humans have the right to use the corpses of other creatures. Would you not be disgusted if he covered the bike in cat fur or human skin, even if those cats or humans died a natural cause? I mean they're just rotting there, so why not?
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*I'm not trying to bitchy or combative, if you could hear my tone it would be "gentle inquisition".
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But I'm really surprised by the statements here about Hirst as an artist. I don't like everything he's done, but he has definitely created some interesting and beautiful things. Modern art pushes the envelope. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes it's stupid. Sometimes it's cruel. Sometimes it's purely for shock value. But sometimes it makes you think something completely new and see beauty in ways you've never experienced, and in things you've never thought of as beautiful. His segmented cow, which I've seen in person, was so fascinating and incredible on so many levels. I didn't perceive it as trying to be shocking at all, and I found a great deal of meaning in it, as a vegetarian and someone who cares about animal rights. (As far as I'm aware, the animals aren't killed for the artwork. If they were, I would have a problem with it on those grounds, of course.) I just feel like a lot of the things being said here in terms of his art and his "lack of talent" could be said about almost any modern artist, and it strikes me as a little intellectually dangerous.
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