+Damien

Hirst

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Life of Damien HirstBut the answer to how to live

is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're

doing that anyway. However you intellectualize it, you

still just live.

- Damien Hirst

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Went to Leeds School of Art for a foundation course.

Went to Goldsmiths College for the BA Fine Arts Course.

Graduated in 1965.

Born in Bristol, England in 1965

Brought up in Leeds.

+While still a student, Damien Hirst devised and organized an exhibition called “Freeze”

Damien’s pieces of art were displayed along with 16 of his fellow students.Charles Saatchi began to collect Hirst’s

work after this exhibition.

He showed great growth in art when he switched from installation art to paintings.

The info of his life is written like a data being told , I need your personal views and reactions as well.

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Work of Damien Hirst

+Predominant theme: death Damien Hirst’s central, though not exclusive

theme has been an exploration of mortality.

Hirst has modified his approach to this theme with wit, flamboyance, verve and originality.

His most famous works include The Natural History series; in which dead animals are presented in a grotesque manner.

No one has fully understood this array of corpse displays. But everyone who has physically experienced it (first-hand) believes it has a powerful visual image that is “unmatched by any description of it”.

This, many people believe, is the reason Damien was short listed for the Turner Prize in 1992

The words are not entirely yours you've e picked up sentences and put theme here, I cannot see if you have actually understood anything here

+For The Love Of God

• Made using a real, human skull

• Used 8,601 diamonds. • The idea of the title

came about when Hirst’s mother said to him “For

the love of God, what are you going to do next?”

• The title is meant to be iconic and ironic.

• Conveys the transience of life and the

Archeology inspiring his art?

Hirst maintains that the diamonds are insignificant

Use of real, human skull seems very sadistic for a man who’s so influenced by the Bible.

+Natural History Series: Away From The Flock

• Corpses of a sheep a tank with formaldehyde.•Although he doesn’t know the meaning of it, Hirst has a compulsion for beauty.• He transforms an organism- which is lifeless- and he retrieves its lost vitality.

• He forces us to focus on the sheep, an animal that been provides us with food and warmth, transforming it from the mundane into something “special”.•‘Away from the Flock’, is a term associated with religion, specifically Christianity.

The sheep in seems

oblivious to its fate and appears to

be prancing with life.

+No Love Lost (Painting)

Diamond shapes and

lines makes it interesting

Hue: Blue-blackIntensity: Varies

Value: A combination

This background is very boring for an

artist like Hirst. Although, it

intensifies the skull in the

middle. Gives a strange feeling of electric currents

Positive spaces in the center, and negative near the borders

The skull is in the center, so that balances the painting out a little. Asymmetrical because of the sudden, yellow color

Focal point: skull

Contrasts with the background colors

+Bibliography

http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html

http://anthropology.net/2007/06/01/damien-hirsts-diamond-encrusted-skull-jeweled-skulls-in-archaeology/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0vL0V1Vklo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ6isqr2OY

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/H/6043/artistName/Damien%20Hirst/recordId/87212

Accessed: 2 November 2011