| 1999
|
It
was a revolution waiting to happen. The latest daring group of
artists ... says that painting is the best thing ... calling themselves
the Stuckist movement
Dalya Alberge, The Times, 26.8.99.
|
2009 |
I
always thought painting was the best thing to do.
Damien
Hirst, Financial Times, 16.10.09
(quoted from No Love Lost book, p. 63)
|
| 2000 |
artists
who want a return to tradition ... The Stuckists"
The Times, 4.3.00 |
2009 |
what
now counts as radical is a return to tradition. Hirst has been painting.
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The
Times, 14.10.09. |
| |
| 1999 |
The
manifesto of the Stuckists ...
says that they want "to advance the cause of painting"
Dalya
Alberge, The Times, 26.8.99. |
2009 |
I
think painting’s back
Damien
Hirst, Bloomberg, 14.10.09 |
| |
| 1999 |
The Stuckist is not a career artist but rather an amateur ... who
takes risks
The
Stuckists manifesto, 3.8.99. |
2009 |
it's
not really about ability, it's about guts
Damien
Hirst, The Daily Telegraph, 13.10.09. |
| |
| 2000 |
art
is ... about addressing the shadow and making friends with wild
dogs
Stuckists
Remodernism manifesto, 1.3.00 |
2009 |
I
find painting cathartic
Damien
Hirst, The Independent, 14.10.09 |
| |
| 1999 |
So
what is Stuckism? The group's manifesto proclaims it "bitterly
opposed to ... conceptual art, minimal art"
Rose
Aidin, The Sunday Times, 1.8.99.
|
2009 |
Conceptual
or minimal art seems a bit dead
Damien
Hirst, Time Out, 13.10.09 |
| 2002 |
the
Stuckists ... on Thursday, they will proclaim the death of conceptual
art by staging a funeral procession in which they will carry a coffin
to the White Cube
Dalya
Alberge, The Times, 20.7.02. |
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|
| |
| 1999 |
The
Stuckists ... pillory "any art which features dead animals
or tents" ... which has "shown itself to be lost in
a cul-de-sac of idiocy"
Dalya Alberge, The Times, 26.8.99. |
2009 |
Conceptual art, abstraction, they're total dead ends.
Damien
Hirst, The Observer, 6.9.09 |
| 2000 |
the
Modernist school ... declined into formalism and abstraction
Stuckists
Handy
Hints manifesto 11.4.00 |
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|
| |
| 1999 |
So
what is Stuckism? The group's manifesto proclaims it "bitterly
opposed to Brit Shit"
Rose
Aidin, The Sunday Times, 1.8.99. |
2009 |
You
start thinking ... why are you making more of this shit
Damien
Hirst, The Observer, 6.9.09
|
| |
| 1999 |
Against ... hedonism and the cult of
the ego-artist.
The
Stuckists manifesto, 3.8.99 |
2009 |
I
definitely believed I was going to live forever ... you've got to
get off the table and stop shouting "yeahhh".
Damien
Hirst, The Guardian, 13.10.09.
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| |
| 1999 |
The
Stuckist is opposed to the sterility of the white wall gallery system
The
Stuckists manifesto, 3.8.99. |
2009 |
You
get a bit bored of putting art in contemporary art galleries, it's
just a big white space isn't it?
Damien
Hirst, Daily Mail, 13.10.09. |
| |
| 2002 |
I'm
mainly talking to people who
aren't yet born with my work
Billy
Childish (Stuckist co-founder),
The Observer, 24.3.02 |
2005 |
in
a way you make art for people who haven't been born yet
Damien
Hirst, The Independent,
16.10.05 |
| 2006 |
you’re
working for people not yet born
Damien
Hirst, Time Out, 20.11.06
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| |
| 2000 |
The
painting of pictures has endured since the Lascaux caves
The
Stuckists, An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas
Serota, 26.2.00. |
2009 |
there's
an unbroken line all the way back to the cavemen
Damien
Hirst, The Daily Telegraph, 13.10.09. |
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