I didn’t say I don’t like it, and I don’t know if there’s anything to get, is there? (Genuine question)
I’m not a hugely imaginative or creative person, but do recognise the quality of some artwork, and the talent needed to produce it.
Some ‘art’ on the other hand wouldn’t appear to require very little artistic talent. Unless something like this Hirst work has a hidden message or a picture within a picture etc then it it just a load of geometric shapes to me, and where’s the value in that, anyone could have produced it, it didn’t take a ‘special mind’.
I find art on the whole a totally pretentious and snobby afair, used mainly as a tool to boost ego’s and belittle those who don’t get it.
I just don’t get chucking a load of paint on a canvass, or a load of shapes, then making a statement about it representing something or other, or being “whatever you want it to be” etc.