tate mordern exibition of damien hirst thursday 19th april
A brief summery about Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst was raised in Leeds but his place of birth
originates in Bristol and he was born in the year 1965. He studied art in
college at the Jacob Kramer college and and went on to graduate from goldsmiths
college he then later in his life went onto do an exhibition called freeze in
1988 causing him to come into the public’s eyes.
I found Hirst’s work represent the inevitability of death
and the cycles it takes from birth to the grave.
Hirst’s work often involves the use of dead creatures, staging
from the preserving of the entire creature, like the sharks in formaldehyde
to the calf
and fully-grown cow both split in half down their centres and which are bizarrely encased in glass so that the viewer can
walk between the two half’s viewing the animal’s
insides, as if you are going in through the front and coming out of the
cows rear end.
Another strange piece
of Hirst’s work is a huge black circle of dead flies which I find really creepy
as at first you don’t recognise that it is a circle of dead flies and find
yourself trying to picture what its until you realise that it is millions of
dead flies.
Most of Hirst’s works somehow show a representation
of death and rebirth, like the hall of butterflies and even the wall of
diamonds against a golden background, which could be interpreted in several
ways, two of which I found to mesh together, one of which my friend mentioned
and the other I noted. That the gold background could represent king minus, and
his gold, and the other of how a human’s greed for money and power lead to
death and sorrow in both cases
The most famous of Hirst’s works is the diamond skull made
from a platinum caste of a real skull and embedded with fifty million pounds
worth of diamonds, which reflect any light that hits it in rainbows of colour,
which I believe to be Hirst’s most impressive piece of art amongst all of his
works.
