This review by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian is just glorious.
Seriously - Mr Hirst - I am talking to you. It seems you have no one around you to say this: stop, now. Shut up the shed. I say this as a longtime admirer, not an enemy. No encounter with a contemporary work of art has ever thrilled me like the day I walked into the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 and saw a tiger shark's maw lurch towards me. But these paintings are abominations unto the lord of Art. They dismantle themselves. Each of these paintings - from the parrot in a cage to the blossoms and butterflies - takes on the difficulties of representational painting and visibly fails to come close, not merely to mastery, but to basic competence.
