Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist.
Check his artworks...
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Anatomy of an angel
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Legend - a winged horse that has been partly surgically flayed, exposing muscle and bone.
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Myth - a unicorn which has skin removed from its legs.
Hirst said that the pieces were a continuation of his interest in the relationship between science and religion. "In a way science brings religion down to earth and to cut open mythical creatures and expose them as no different to mortal horses is somehow still magical. It's kind of like exploding a myth to make it real."
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The Dream - Unicorns in formaldehyde
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The Golden Calf - an 18-month-old, golden headpiece-wearing calf in a silicone and formaldehyde brew-filled tank plated in 18 karat gold and set atop a Carrara marble plinth
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I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds (a quote taken out of its context from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita) - consists of real butterflies and is 17 x 7 feet large
"I think I’ve got an obsession with death, but I think it’s like a celebration of life rather than something morbid. You can’t have one without the other," he said.
Butterfly paintings that consist of actual butterflies suspended in paint, or thousands of butterfly wings arranged in a mandala-like pattern.
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He bred butterflies in a box in his studio, put them live on the canvas, and let them die by landing in wet paint.. capturing the processes of their hatching and death in his work.
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Pigs Might Fly
Check his artworks...
[link]
[link]Anatomy of an angel
[link]Legend - a winged horse that has been partly surgically flayed, exposing muscle and bone.
[link]Myth - a unicorn which has skin removed from its legs.
Hirst said that the pieces were a continuation of his interest in the relationship between science and religion. "In a way science brings religion down to earth and to cut open mythical creatures and expose them as no different to mortal horses is somehow still magical. It's kind of like exploding a myth to make it real."
[link]The Dream - Unicorns in formaldehyde
[link]The Golden Calf - an 18-month-old, golden headpiece-wearing calf in a silicone and formaldehyde brew-filled tank plated in 18 karat gold and set atop a Carrara marble plinth
[link]I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds (a quote taken out of its context from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita) - consists of real butterflies and is 17 x 7 feet large
"I think I’ve got an obsession with death, but I think it’s like a celebration of life rather than something morbid. You can’t have one without the other," he said.
Butterfly paintings that consist of actual butterflies suspended in paint, or thousands of butterfly wings arranged in a mandala-like pattern.
[link]He bred butterflies in a box in his studio, put them live on the canvas, and let them die by landing in wet paint.. capturing the processes of their hatching and death in his work.
[link]Pigs Might Fly
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