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Damien Steven Hirst (/ h ɜːr s t /; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of a preserved tiger shark submerged in formalin in a glass-panel display case.
One of the late-20 th century's greatest provocateurs and a polarizing figure in recent art history, Damien Hirst was the art superstar of the 1990s. As a young and virtually unknown artist, Hirst climbed far and fast, thanks to Charles Saatchi, an advertising tycoon who saw promise in Hirst's rotting animal corpses, and gave him a virtually ...
Since emerging onto the international art scene in the late 1980s, Damien Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death.
Jun 3, 2024 · Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965, Bristol, England) is a British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality.
Feb 25, 2022 · Damien Hirst (b. 1965) — the leading light of the YBA generation and one of the world’s most successful living artists — never fails to provoke a reaction. Combining a maverick sensibility with an unerring aesthetic instinct, he has created some of the most iconic and provocative artworks of the past three decades, and in doing so has ...
Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.
Damien Hirst. Actor: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. In his youth, Hirst was already considered a rebel, but his artistic talent also emerged. After graduating from school with a high school diploma, Hirst studied fine art at Goldsmiths College in London from 1986 to 1989.
Fact Paintings and Fact Sculptures sees Hirst as both artist and curator, presenting this deeply personal series of work through his own eyes. Throughout his storied career, Hirst has confronted the systems of belief that define human existence, from common trust in medicine to the seduction of consumerism.
Gagosian is pleased to present The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012.
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