Various arguments on the ethics of Damien Hirst's art
Damien Hirst's collection of dead animals and human fragments, either already dead or killed for his art, make up quite a bit of complaints from animal rights groups, and people who think about ethics and whatnot. Here lies the article from artnet, in which they counted every animal and animal fragment used in Damien's art (which involved the slow process of counting every single butterfly on Hirst's Kaleidoscope Paintings (2012) ( http://www.damienhirst.com/texts1/series/kaleidoscope ) : https://news.artnet.com/art-world/damien-whats-your-beef-916097 The count tallied up to 913,450 animals (though that includes forty-seven pork sausages and the skeleton of an extinct wholly mammoth). It ends with this quote from Hirst, which he said sometime in 1995 when they gave him the turner prize: "It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, a twisted imagination, and a chainsaw." Here's another one, from the Telegraph, entitled "Dami
