Follow-up Spot Painting Mockery

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No one so bitter as a lover scorned, the mockery (deserved) of Damien Hirst's Spot Paintings continues.  Here are a bunch of random facts about the series:

1. Hirst has made an estimated 1,400 spot paintings since 1986.

2. Gagosian's The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 contains over three hundred.

3. Hirst himself has painted five.

4. Hirst thinks those five are "shit." via

5. Rachel Howard paints the best spot paintings: "The best person who ever painted spots for me was Rachel. She's brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel." via

6. Hirst is still making spot paintings, despite announcing he would stop in 2008. via

7. Hirst threatened to sue British Airways for copyright infringement after the airline used colored spots in an advertisement. via

8. Tensions with longtime patron Charles Saatchi boiled over when Saatchi formally exhibited a spot-covered Mini Cooper that Hirst had painted for charity. Hirst does not list this retrospective on his CV. via

9. Hirst has made an editioned "paint by numbers" spot painting kit, containing a blank canvas, numbered dots, and numbered tins of paint. These unpainted spot paintings sell for more than the painted ones, and they generally remain unpainted. via

10. The earliest paintings in the Gagosian show are in the Madison Avenue location because that location has "more of an old-master feel." via

11. An assistant once painted five yellow spots in a row. Hirst told him this was insufficiently random. "We had a big fight," Hirst admits. "Now I realize he was right, and I was wrong." via


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