Money or Art?

Cornelia Parker is an installation artist. She challenges physics and investigates private/public spaces through her art. Parker experiments with Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991).

“as an individual I am very moved by the politics and the ethics of environmental issues, but I can’t do that in my art.” Cornelia Parker.

Unlike other modern artists Parker does not use her art as a statement. The purpose of Parker's art is not to earn the money which is found in the exclusive world of modern art today, but develops a subject which involves experiments. Her interest in the materials potential creates the art. For example, Damien Hirst's pickled sharks are arguably not art. His diamond skull, "For the Love of God" is priced at £50,000,000. 

There is little or no thought involved in sticking diamonds on a skull. It is almost as if Hirst is taking advantage of the art world as he knows himself his art is pointless. Art to him is a business and it soon loses the purpose which drove Hirst to pick this career. This man has no respect for his own art. 

Hirst led an art movement called the  YBA's (Young British Artists) and in this also, was Tracey Emin. Her art has also become commercial. Many of the artists in this movement now earn huge amounts of money and no respect for their work as an individual artist.