British critics lash 'amateurish' Hirst paintingsDamien Hirst, once the enfant terrible en·fant ter·ri·ble n. en·fants ter·ri·bles One whose startlingly unconventional behavior, work, or thought embarrasses or disturbs others: The radical painter was the enfant terrible of the art establishment. of the British art world, has been slammed as simply terrible for his latest work, which he -- shock, horror -- painted himself. The scathing reviews were compounded by a new survey showing he has plummeted nearly 50 places down a ranking of the contemporary art world's most powerful movers and shakers Shakers, popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also called the Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name from the trembling produced by religious emotion, were also known as Alethians. . One of London's most traditional art galleries, best known for housing works by the likes of Velazquez and Titian Titian (tĭsh`ən), c.1490–1576, Venetian painter, whose name was Tiziano Vecellio, b. Pieve di Cadore in the Dolomites. Of the very first rank among the artists of the Renaissance, Titian had an immense influence on succeeding generations , will show "No Love Lost", a collection of 25 paintings, many featuring dark depictions of human skulls In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. and shark bones. But unlike the work which first brought him fame involving animals preserved in formaldehyde formaldehyde (fôrmăl`dəhīd'), HCHO, the simplest aldehyde. It melts at −92°C;, boils at −21°C;, and is soluble in water, alcohol, and ether; at STP, it is a flammable, poisonous, colorless gas with a suffocating , or more recent dot or spin paintings made by assistants, Hirst actually put brush to canvas using his own hands. They were presented this week, but critics were far from impressed. "The paintings are dreadful. Think Francis Bacon meets Adrian Mole... What are they doing in the home of such masters as Rembrandt or Poussin, Titian or Fragonard?" wrote a commentator in the Times newspaper. In the Guardian, a critic concluded: "At its worst, Hirst's drawing just looks amateurish and adolescent. His brushwork brush·work n. 1. Work done with a brush. 2. The manner in which a painter applies paint with a brush. brushwork Noun lacks that oomph and panache that makes you believe in the painter's lies. He can't yet carry it off." Sarah Crompton Sarah Crompton (1802 - 13 May 1881) was an English children's writer. Sarah Crompton was born in Birmingham, the daughter of J. W. Crompton, a merchant. She died in Birmingham. References
"The problems with the exhibition begin when you study the paintings themselves. Although they have impact as a group, individually many of the paintings simply don't pass muster. "Details are tentatively painted; compositions fall apart under scrutiny," she added. The criticism came as Hirst dropped from first place to number 48 in the space of a year in a Power 100 list publshed by the contemporary art magazine ArtReview. Hirst said earlier this week that he found it "quite funny" that art lovers were surprised he was creating paintings. "You kind of think that you've done all that formaldehyde work and then it's a real shock that you're doing something quite straightforward," he said. Rosalind Savill, director of the Wallace Collection Wallace Collection: see under Wallace, Sir Richard. where the paints are shown, added: "Damien Hirst wanted an intimate national museum to present his paintings that are much more traditional than what he had done before." The works date from between 2006 and 2008 and mainly belong to a Ukrainian collector. This is the first time they have been on public show in Britain. 
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