Talk:For the Love of God

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Actual Sculptor[edit]

Isn't it a bit inaccurate to say that this piece was made by Hirst when someone else sculpted it, someone else sourced the diamonds, and someone else put it all together? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lumiras (talk • contribs) 18:24, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jay Z[edit]

Jay Z used an image of 'For the love of God' as a backdrop for one of his songs for his performance at the Roskilde Music Festival 2008, does anyone know if it was a one time thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.220.14.194 (talk) 23:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most expensive?[edit]

Kongthin Pearlmich's The Man Delusion may now be the most expensive artwork by a living artist - though there's little on the internet about him. Anyone know any more? Malick78 (talk) 09:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Make big triptych sculpture of Christ on the cross.
Loan to church, claiming three others exist, and getting gullible people to repeat "one of which has been offered to the Vatican and another has gone to a private collector, reputedly sold for nearly £70 million."
Profit!!

Talk is cheap, it all seems like a hoax/art stunt possibly by artist Michael Knighton; see BBC article. The result is a solid work of performance art built around a merely OK sculpture... just like Hirst's skull ☺ -- Skierpage (talk)

This sculpture is a symbol of the immense vacuousness and contemptible state of our being. truly sad, wikipedia is meant to enrich that knowledge of humans, not to abdicate the ability to use one's brain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.89.56 (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Funding[edit]

Just curious if anyone knows what kind of foundational funding this workpiece required and received? Aditya.m4 (talk) 09:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

None whatsoever, i think. Johnbod (talk) 15:08, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tate exhibition 2012[edit]

Do we know who has lent the skull to the Tate? JeffreyBNewman (talk) 19:35, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Owner[edit]

So who owns it now? --184.161.146.190 (talk) 19:44, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Media reporting and reviews" section problems, partly fixed[edit]

The whole "Media reporting and reviews" section was messed up.

In 2010 Piero79 added a lot of unrelated stuff. I don't see any connection between Leeds 13's performance art stunt in 1998 and this 2007 sculpture, why is it there? There are a literally hundreds of earlier far more noteworthy art pieces where press coverage is part of the art, for example John and Yoko's 1969 Bed-In and Ant Farm's 1975 "Media Burn".
There are several statements citing essays by Robert Preece linked on artdesigncafe (aka "Art Design Publicity"?) that claim to be reprints from Sculpture (magazine) (not available online). They're all about the piece so I don't think it's self-promotion and may not be "OMG Hirst is awesome" PR, but it leaves the Wiki page unbalanced. Later someone removed the <ref> citations while leaving the statements.
The arbitrary mention
artist as celebrity publicity maker extends back to Andy Warhol, and even Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso
is mere opinion, and the citation supporting it (another "Art Design Publicity" reprint) redirects to a blank HTML document.

I restored the citations and rephrased, and after some reflection deleted the Leeds 13 sentence and the grab-bag mentions of "artist as celebrity publicity maker". Are there {{howthehellisthisrelated}} and {{toomanycitationsfromonesource}} article tags? -- Skierpage (talk) 00:32, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]