Jun 1 2007Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God"

First!!! And nice skull!!

"Why feed starving children in Africa when you can glue diamonds to a skull? It just makes sense."

Oh, how I love your irony. And you're so damn right.

Because its not worth it to feed starving children in africa..thats why.

whos idea was it to have sex with green monkeys???

Actually, he used a real skull, not a platinum one. I'm sure the original owner is thrilled to now be diamond encrusted. He's probably like "Heh, and to think I was getting worried about spending those two pennies. Now I'm can pay Jesus to re-tune my goddamn harp. And I'll have enough left over for a bigger cloud."

Only if people died and went to heaven... *sigh*

get your religion, jesus, harps and clouds outta here! i mean it!
If i ever see you post in this site again i'll e-thug you.

you've been warned.

It's a platinum cast of a real skull:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ax86i3rbNVgE&refer=muse

Anyhow, that looks like it'd taste great.

I would say I'd skull f*** it but that would chaff

Imagine this was your face... you'd be ballin!

But then some nig-nog will probably jack your skull off your body and dangle it on a chain around his neck. Which would suck.

Coooooool... Bone Bling.

nig-nog. ha!

Also... I think Joe Mamma is related to hogkill [for those that remember him]... same pseudo-intellectual grumpiness.

The massive silver back gorilla lumber into a bar, his fists thumping as he plods up to a bar stool, and seats himself down with surprising grace. The bartender, still cleaning his glass, asks the gorilla, "So, what will it be?" The gorilla responds, "A martini, please" and place a $20 bill on the counter. The bartender, shocked that this mammoth ape just ordered a cocktail, decides to test the gorilla's intelligence. He returns to hand the gorilla one dollar in change and his drink. The gorilla glances at the dollar and puts it away. After the few moments of silence, the bartender says, "You dont see too many gorillas around these parts," the gorilla responds, "With nineteen dollar martinis, i see why."

I say we place bets.
Which rap artist will steal/buy it first to wear around his neck?

This thing is destined to one day end up in some far-out Indiana Jones type scenario. In the end, Dr. Jones will find out the little Asian kid died for something with no supernatural powers. And it was well worth it, annoying little jerk.

how is this creative?

lamzor, youd have to be a complete tool to buy that thing

"Oh, how I love your irony. And you're so damn right."

Not irony dude. Please review the meaning and try again.

I remember Hog-kill and I don't believe that I am anywhere close to him. I really don't even know where that came from. That would be like if I suggested you like to rape little boys because you are a Man of God. Look, whatever you want to do on your own time is your business. You don't have to answer to me but you will have to answer to Jesus. Pedo.

You would say something like that Joe. God, that makes me so hot and horny. I'm smearing the peanut butter on my balls right now for you.

I miss TypeKey.

*Paedo

i want one

#13, I'm betting on 50 cent...

Joe Momma used the latin prefix for foot as an insult. Why?

woah, f*** anumantium and all that shit, i want a skeliton made of THAT!

Gee mommy, so this is why it hurts to headbutt Mr. T.

...man, f*** this jibba jabba. I can find trinkets like this in the local cemetary. All I need is $5 and I can make the same...

You know what, fine, that's it. I'll admit it.
I'm the guy who took your mother's skull and smacked it against the counter at the jewelry store until something shiny stuck. I beeez sowwy...

Yeah, to quote my other favourite British artist, Banksy, "Sometimes I feel so upset that I can't even finish my second apple pie."

Joe, if I ever meet you, I'm going to pound your biggot face to a bloody pulp, you piece of shit. whose idea was it to have sex with green monkeys? ask your mother.

Y'know...I bet if you stuck a little clock in its mouth, Flava Flav would buy it to wear around his neck...

i fink its utter cunt shit my grandads better in bed so speed the f*** up and make a blue whale skeleton covered in dimonds have f*** on that damien my man

I'd say about 90% of you guys are acting like ass clowns right now. Holy shit. Someone's either being an unjustified biggot (green monkey?), an unjustified snob (it can be spelled pedophile or paedophile), or an unjustified religious Nazi (did it ever occur to you that #4 might be telling a hmm I don't know JOKE!? What a concept). I mean what the f*** people? Although I must say that I would love some of the crack that Fiona is on, wow.

if only Andy Warhol were still alive, he could piss on this and make it completely valid.

OMG. It is the most repulsive thing I have ever seen, both to look at and the whole idea of it. And yes I agree, why feed starving people, when we can look at a very repulsive piece of (and I say very loosely) artwork. Damion Hurst is NOT an artist in any sense of the word and if anyone believes his pretentious crap is a fool.

Maybe its point is to induce revulsion at obvious consumption?

Oh, wait, I have a better one.

Let me encase this thing in a bowling ball. It's value will skyrocket!!!!

"it can be spelled pedophile or paedophile"

A true demonstration of self-righteous ignorance. To summarise: wrong, sorry! Spelling it different simply to rebel against your origins doesn't make it right, it just makes you a wannabe Bad Kid.

This world would be so much better if everyone had my wits, personality, thirst for information and consequent knowledge.

Where did this guy get the money for all the diamonds, and whose skull did he make a cast of? Those are human teeth too, were they the teeth from the original skull? I don't understand the name of the piece being, "For the Love of God". This seems more to point to an idolistic portrayal of the basic human being. ( btw, underneath all the colors of skin, races, cultures, sexual orientation and politics, we are all equalized in death).

THE ASTRONOMICAL NEW HISTORY OF ART

Following Damien Hirst’s £50 million “For the love of God”, I have decided to put my painting “The eternal and infinite universe (94)” on the market for £50 million and one pence. This work, painted in 1994, November, carried a brief explanation of the universe as eternal and infinite, reasoning that the visible universe should be accelerating apart (in a way that also explained the ‘clumping of matter’ phenomenon). It also provided an explanation for Olbers paradox, in an infinite universe, in terms of basic physics. The painting was publicly exhibited first in Jan 1995 with a price of £7 million.
Gathering observations of supernovae about two-to-three years later showed the universe was accelerating apart (against all the expectations of astrophysicists) affirming the theory in the painting.
Naturally, if the universe is infinite and eternal (something we can never know for sure) then everything is ultimately unfathomable. Maybe that is why the universe becomes more understandable ultimately to an artist than to scientists.
The new price reflects the painting’s (not yet widely known) unique achievement in the history of art and the history of understanding the universe: two histories that should converge, as they do in this work.

Mark Bridger

WHY?!?!!

I LIKE EGGS :D

http://picserver.nl/v/R80XXM575ANU

Sorry but I would rather that the money was spent on starving chrilden in Africa although how much I love this peice of art the money would be better spent ON starving chrilden on AFRICA!!

#40, forget the skull I want to bid for that!

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la tontería humana?

yours 42 for 1000€ - i promise i'll donate 500 of it to starving children ;P

#40 LOFL

-hero

makes me want to make a diamond encrusted golf ball

Oh, man, this cracked me up. On the flip side, it makes me weep for the demise of our culture.

First nice skull!!! secondly anyone on this site crying feed Africa is a hypocrite!!! take the money for your computer-online service-starbucks or whatever your passion and send it to Africa!!! that way we dont have to listen to your wawa and can discuss the work of art up for discussion. As art it is COOL. I personally cannot afford it but I believe it was ment for show as with most gallery pieces

wow... we got a lot of racist bigots commenting on this blog.

go and die.

more like damien hirsts "for the love of GOLD"

Who ever wrote this is an arrogant dumbass bitch...or dude./

I've actually seen this skull in Amsterdam in the Rijksmuseum.
I thought it would be a load of crap but I saw it and it's absolutely beautiful !!!

I think that people are completely missing the point here.
"For the Love of God" is an exclaimation of disgust. The piece is an intended ironic dig at consumerism.

I think it's pretty brilliant personally. This is a piece that acctually INSULTS the buyer, and yet he STILL sold it for millions. Not bad for a guy who couldn't pass his GCSEs......

he actually sold it to a investment group of buyers - two members of this group were his gallerist and himself ;)

1st the statue is called for the love of god because his mommy said for the love of god what are you going to do next 2nd yes the skull is a real skull not a cast 3rd the teeth are origional 4th the skull is about 200 years old and lastly anyone who isn't here to comment on the art shut the hell up and go yell on youtube we dont want to read your stupid comments that have nothing to do with the work