http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/04/14/oh-no-its-the-death-of-british-art/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/04/14/oh-no-its-the-death-of-british-art/#comment-540 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:00:51 +0000 http://www.artistica.co.uk/2006/04/14/oh-no-its-the-death-of-british-art/#comment-540 I think quite the opposite. Quinn's sculpture is a striking work visually and Kate Moss will be remembered in the way that, for example, Sarah Bernhardt is. Quinn has created something that didn't exist before, and is reinventing figurative sculpture in a simple but original and effective way. It is the shark and the bed which will lose significance, once the hype goes and they are reduced to what they really are - mundane objects. I think quite the opposite. Quinn’s sculpture is a striking work visually and Kate Moss will be remembered in the way that, for example, Sarah Bernhardt is. Quinn has created something that didn’t exist before, and is reinventing figurative sculpture in a simple but original and effective way. It is the shark and the bed which will lose significance, once the hype goes and they are reduced to what they really are - mundane objects.

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