When a mediocre Leonardo breaks all records,it’s confirmation that today’s buyers occupy no eye for the art itselfIf you walk around Mayfair or Manhattan at twilight and look up, you could glimpse a Damien Hirst spot portray through an apartment window. The simple circles of colour on a grid and a white background are recognisable and everywhere. There are more than 1000 in existence, or they occupy been exhibited all over the world.
The spot paintings are visually inoffensive; whether one catches your eye,it does not hold it. One works as well hung in the living room as it does in the boardroom. But whichever wall it does grace, even a child knows it’s a Hirst, or though painted by his assistants,even whether they can’t differentiate one work from another.
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Source: guardian.co.uk