The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is one of Hirst’s earliest outputs but among his most notable – this piece exhibits an Australian tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde and is just one among many of his works that tackles the taboo surrounding mortality;
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Damien Hirst
Hirst has stated that "The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact." In keeping with his tradition of using animals and insects throughout his art, Hirst received acclaim for his Butterfly Paintings – a series for which he fixed the bo
Read More The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is one of Hirst’s earliest outputs but among his most notable – this piece exhibits an Australian tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde and is just one among many of his works that tackles the taboo surrounding mortality;
« It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something. »
Damien Hirst
Hirst has stated that "The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact." In keeping with his tradition of using animals and insects throughout his art, Hirst received acclaim for his Butterfly Paintings – a series for which he fixed the bodies of dead butterflies onto monochrome, gloss-painted canvasses. Hirst was among the Young British Artists movement alongside the likes of Emin, Bulloch and Gillick and counted artists such as
Jeff Koons and
Francis Bacon among his influences. (
Artist website)
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