tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post7574833870327046377..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Art values - gold standard or more derivative rubbish?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-61704967081998822132008-09-15T16:26:00.000+00:002008-09-15T16:26:00.000+00:00I just wanted to say how much I like your painting...I just wanted to say how much I like your painting (do you call CP work "paintings"?) at the top of the page. It's so ethereal and warm and misty and lovely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60847511965804075072008-09-15T15:04:00.000+00:002008-09-15T15:04:00.000+00:00Call me a cynic, but people have always been foole...Call me a cynic, but people have always been fooled by fashion - i.e. liking what they are told to like! Hirst is in fashion and will appeal to those who have more money than sense and want to make safe choices to impress their peers (fellow bankers!). If the bubble is going to burst, now would be a likely time, but I really doubt it will happen. The art world has always been full of controversy and artists with dubious talent that for some reason or other had greatness thrust upon them. I find it sad that his art can sell for silly prices and yet artists are now being advised to lower what are (generally) already pitiful prices for their work. I do agree with Hirst that there is a strange resistance to the idea of artists making money. I think artists themselves are complicit in this.Felicity Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11145205761346733464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-86455302403740677422008-09-15T14:53:00.000+00:002008-09-15T14:53:00.000+00:00i think that with the collapse of the housing mark...i think that with the collapse of the housing market, both here in the Uk and Us<BR/>the speculators just latch on to anything at the moment and that is why you get all these extremes.<BR/>interesting post<BR/>can i add something that may interest you.<BR/>i think you mentioned http://amberas.blogspot.com<BR/>in one of your recommended blog posts sometime back. well she has fallen foal of Blogger and is understandably upset at being censored, for showing a painting of pregnant woman (nude)<BR/>censorship in the arts is always regretableChris Bellingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775262082794047737noreply@blogger.com