ArtLyst report that Hockney has condemed Hirst’s use of assistants to create artwork.
David Hockney has spoken out against Damien Hirst for using a large number of assistant to create his work. This was during his first public statement since being included in the 2012 nominations for the royal Order of Merit, in which he argued that it was ‘insulting to craftsmen, skilful craftsmen’ for an artist to employ others to create their artwork.
This opinion has been further broadcast in a new poster for the Royal academy exhibition of his landscapes which reads: ‘All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally’.
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