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Damien Hirst (1965, Bristol, UK) is one of the most expensive living artists and the most prominent figure in the Young British Artists group.
His father was a mechanic and car salesman who left the family when Damien was 12. His mother was a Catholic consulting firm and amateur artist. She quickly lost control of her son, who was arrested twice for shoplifting. Damien Hirst attended Leeds College of Art and studied art at the University of London.
Hearst had serious problems with drugs and alcohol for ten years, starting in the early nineties.
Death is a central theme in his work. The artist's most famous series is dead animals in formalin (shark, sheep, cow...)
One of his first works was the installation "A Thousand Years" - a clear demonstration of life and death. In a glass display case, fly larvae emerged from their eggs to crawl behind a glass partition to food - a rotting cow's head. The larvae hatched into flies, which then died on the exposed wires of the "electronic fly swatter". A visitor could watch "A Thousand Years" today and then come back a few days later and see how the cow's head has shrunk and the pile of dead flies has grown.
At forty, Hirst was worth £100 million, more than Picasso, Warhol and Dali combined at that age.
In 1991, Hirst created "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living" (a tiger shark in a formaldehyde tank)
"I like it when an object symbolizes a feeling. A shark is scary, it is larger than you and is in an environment that is unfamiliar to you. Dead it looks like a living thing, and alive - like a dead one." Sold for $12M
Canned sheep cut lengthwise. A being "frozen in death". Expresses "the joy of life and the inevitability of death." Sold for £2.1m
"Separated mother and child". You can walk between them. In 1995, Hurst received the Turner Prize for it. In 1999 he turned down an invitation to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale.
Hirst had a big "medical" series. At an exhibition in Mexico City, the president of a vitamin campaign paid $3 million for "The Blood of Christ," an installation of paracetamol tablets in a medical cabinet. "Spring lullaby" - a locker with 6136 pills laid out on razor blades went at Christie's auction for $ 19.1 million
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The third major series of Hirst - "dot paintings" - colored circles on a white background. The master indicated which paints to use, but did not touch the canvas himself. In 2003, his dot pattern was used as an instrument calibration on the British Beagle spacecraft launched to Mars.
The fourth series - paintings of rotation - are created on a rotating potter's wheel. Hirst stands on a ladder and throws paint onto a rotating base - canvas or board. Sometimes commands assistant: "More red" or "Turpentine"
The paintings "are a visual representation of the energy of chance"
A collage of thousands of individual tropical butterfly wings is created by technicians in a separate studio
An interesting story happened to a reporter who had an old portrait of Stalin, bought at one time for 200 pounds. In 2007, he approached Christie with a proposal to put it up for auction. The auction house refused, saying that it did not sell either Stalin or Hitler.
- And what if the author was Hurst or Warhol?
- Well, then we would gladly take it.
The reporter called Hurst and asked him to paint Stalin a red nose. He did so and added his signature.
Christie sold the work for £140,000
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Damien Hirst(Eng. Damien Hirst, b. June 7, 1965) is a contemporary English artist. One of the most prominent members of the Young British Artists group. 1995 Turner Prize winner. 2010 estimates - richest artist in the world.
Biography and creativity
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol (England). Grew up in Leeds. His father left the family when Hearst was 12 years old, and his mother was unable to control her son. In his youth, he was arrested twice for shoplifting.
He studied at Leeds Art School and then (after a two-year pause) at Goldsmith College (1986-1989), which at that time was considered innovative and offered an experimental curriculum that attracted many talented students and teachers there. At this time, he was very fond of the work of Francis Bacon, which was reflected in his future works. Even before graduation, in July 1988 he curated the exhibition Freeze where, among others, his own installations were presented. It should be noted that this exhibition itself was in many ways a project of the 23-year-old Hirst and marked the beginning of both his own career and the careers of a number of other artists, many of whom were also Goldsmith alumni. Here Hirst was first noticed by the millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi, who was greatly impressed by the artist's work. A year later, at Hirst's second exhibition, he bought his work "A Thousand Years" and offered financial assistance in the creation of future works.
installation "A thousand years" was a kind of system illustrating such global processes as life and death. The theme of death - Hirst's key theme - already occupies a dominant position in this work. The installation consisted of a container of fly eggs, a rotting cow's head, and an electric fly swatter. The eggs hatched into larvae, crawled to the food (cow's head), turned into flies and died when they came into contact with the fly swatter. Over time, the installation changed - the head became smaller, and there were more and more corpses of flies, and the viewer, coming to the exhibition again, saw the entire process described above in dynamics, observing not only the life path of the flies, but also the result of this process.
With money from Saatchi, Hirst created a work called "The physical impossibility of death in the mind of the living". This work was a dead four-meter shark in formaldehyde. She laid the foundation for a number of similar installations, one of which - "Separated mother and child"(literally from English. “Mother and child. Divided») - was presented at the Venice Biennale and brought Hirst international fame. Here the viewer sees creatures “frozen in death”, something frightening and repulsive, something that is no longer alive, but still retains its easily recognizable appearance. So, for example, in front of the conditional viewer of the installation “Physical Impossibility…” there is no shark, it has already died and only its shell remains. But the “dead” is perceived by the viewer only as “inanimate”. He sees the "former living", interpreting the new object through the prism of what it once was, and not guided by what it is now.
The theme of death, which sometimes turns into the theme of the transience of life, runs like a red thread through all the work of Damien Hirst. In 2007 he creates a work called "For the love of the Lord!", which is sometimes called "The Diamond Skull of Damien Hirst" and who became known as most expensive piece of art living author. This work itself is a copy of the skull of a European 35 years old, made of platinum and fully encrusted with diamonds. In the center of the forehead of the skull is a pink diamond. The creation of this work cost Hirst 14 million pounds.
Despite the conceptual foundations of Hirst's works, it is difficult to deny the deliberately scandalous nature of many of the artist's works. Following dead animals in formaldehyde and the most expensive work of art in the world, we should mention the installation "In and Out of Love" or in this case "Inside and Outside Love"). Dolls were attached to canvases on the walls, from which butterflies appeared. Entering the room, the spectators found themselves among these insects that flew around them, landing both on the spectators themselves and on fruit containers placed in the same room. The exhibition was held at the Tate Modern gallery and lasted 5 months. During this time, she attracted more than 460,000 visitors and became the most visited solo exhibition in the history of the gallery. Later, information appeared that 9,000 butterflies died during the exhibition and this caused protests from a number of environmental organizations.
Damien Hirst's painting can be classified as geometric abstract art (example: series Spot paintings) and (example: series Spin paintings)). The "Spots" series consists of paintings depicting circles of the same size but different colors (the color never repeats) arranged in a lattice pattern. The Rotations series consists of paintings that were created by pouring paint onto a rotating canvas. Hirst is also the author of a number of paintings that bring us back to the theme of butterflies: the Butterfly Color Paintings series consists of works where dead butterflies are attached to the paint that has not yet dried, which become the basis of the composition.
Damien Stephen Hirst (eng. Damien Hirst; June 7, 1965, Bristol, UK) is an English artist, entrepreneur, art collector, and the most famous figure of the Young British Artists group, who has dominated the art scene since the 1990s.
The Sunday Times estimates that Hirst is the richest living artist in the world, with a net worth of £215 million in 2010. At the beginning of his career, Damien worked closely with the famous collector Charles Saatchi, but the growing differences led to a break in 2003.
Death is a central theme in his work. The artist's most famous series is Natural History: dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) in formaldehyde. Signature work - "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (eng. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living): a tiger shark in an aquarium with formaldehyde. This work has become a symbol of the graphic work of British art in the 1990s and a symbol of Britart throughout the world.
Butterflies are one of the central objects for expressing Hirst's work, he uses them in all possible forms: depiction in paintings, photographs, installations. So, for one of his installations “Fall in love and out of love” (In and Out of Love), held at the Tate Modern from April to September 2012 in London, 9,000 live butterflies, which gradually died during this event. After this incident, representatives of the RSPCA Animal Welfare Foundation subjected the artist to harsh criticism.
In September 2008, Hirst sold the complete Beautiful Inside My Head Forever at Sotheby's for £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a single-artist auction.
Damien Hirst was born in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. His father was a mechanic and car salesman who left the family when Damien was 12 years old. His mother, Mary, was an amateur artist. She quickly lost control of her son, who was arrested twice for shoplifting. Damien first studied at an art school in Leeds, then, after two years working on construction sites in London, he tried to enter Central St Martin's College of Art and Design and some college in Wales. As a result, he was admitted to Goldsmith College (1986-1989).
In the 1980s, Goldsmith College was considered innovative: unlike other schools that recruited students who failed to get into a real college, Goldsmith School attracted many talented students and resourceful teachers. Goldsmith introduced an innovative program that did not require students to draw or paint. Over the past 30 years, this model of education has become widespread throughout the world.
As a student at the school, Hirst regularly visited the morgue. Later, he will notice that many themes of his works originate there.
In July 1988, Hirst curated the now-famous Freeze exhibition in the empty Port of London Authority building on the London Docks; the exhibition featured the work of 17 students of the school and his own creation - a composition of cardboard boxes, painted with paint latex paints. The Freeze exhibition itself was also the fruit of Hirst's work. He himself selected the works, ordered the catalog and planned the opening ceremony.
Freeze has become a starting point for several YBA artists; in addition, the well-known collector, NATO propaganda curator Charles Saatchi drew attention to Hirst.
Hirst graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1989. In 1990, together with friend Carl Friedman, he organized another exhibition, Gamble, in a hangar - in an empty building of the Bermondsey factory. Saatchi visited this exhibition: Friedman recalls standing with his mouth open in front of Hirst's installation called A Thousand Years, a visual demonstration of life and death. Saatchi purchased this creation and offered Hirst money to create future works.
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