Artist appreciation

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is currently the highest-paid living British artist, leading the Young British Artists Association (YBA), whose work explores the origins of life, Death and love, as the two most important elements, often appear in his highly controversial sculptures, paintings and installations. Skulls, dots and butterflies have long been the symbols of Damien Hirst.

The title of the item below, “I was you, but you will become me,” is a reference to a famous Roman epitaph. In the 17th century Dutch vanity in painting, the skull is seen as the most important subject material, and often with flowers and fruit and place in the middle of the picture. Damien Hirst added some playful and ironic skull symbols to the piece, combined with his signature diamond studs.

In 1988, Damien Hirst exhibited his polka dots for the first time, and it quickly became one of his most iconic series. The original creative inspiration comes from pharmaceutical companies for life science research methods, inspired by the artist tried to use a new kind of scientific way of painting, and record those by changing the color of the dot, location, size and the numerous unique arrangement. He said: “mathematics, through these dots painted, I seem to have found the most essential thing – the color of the artistic creation harmonious and perfect interaction with other colors.”

The LSD (LSD) (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)), painted in 2000 Lot ID: 119229 media: Lambda inkjet printing

An artist who is gradually drawn into the chain of capital. Early works “one thousand”, “unimpressed by the living to the dead at the time of the context is very fashionable.

Damien hirst. This work, funded by the sellers saatchi is 6000 pounds caught sharks in Australia, spent more than 50000 pounds of the cost of production. He has to save sharks in formaldehyde solution, and called the unimpressed by the living to the dead.

Just think if works simply referred to as the “shark”, the value of it and geometry. “The living to the dead indifferent” this sentence to express ideas moment remind viewers, you in the face of the bodies of the animals, because of the human and the loss of life. The work sold for $12m in 1992, making it the second most expensive modern and contemporary art in the world at the time.

When people ask Hirst why the work sold for such a high price, he explains: “It’s very simple. The seller is Saatchi, the broker is Gagosian, the buyer is Cohen, the artist is me. You have four of the biggest names in the art industry together, and you have the media, and you have unique brand value.”