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2007
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There was a period of time during the 1990s in England that dubbed certain young and budding artists the “Young British Artists” group. These artists dominated the art scene all throughout the 1990s and became quite noted for their unique artworks, on top of netting millions of dollars from their pieces. One artist from this group in particular would become well known within the art community the world over and would become not only an active artist but also an […]
There was a period of time during the 1990s in England that dubbed certain young and budding artists the “Young British Artists” group. These artists dominated the art scene all throughout the 1990s and became quite noted for their unique artworks, on top of netting millions of dollars from their pieces. One artist from this group in particular would become well known within the art community the world over and would become not only an active artist but also an entrepreneur and one of Britain’s most richest living artists. That artist is Damien Hirst, born on June 7th in 1965.
Hirst was born in Bristol, but spent most of his childhood in Leeds. Even at an early age, he was experimenting with different artistic mediums and generally was “different” from the other children his age. Eventually, he would go to school for fine art at the University of London and then go on to work at a mortuary for some time. It was during his time at the mortuary that he took a lot of inspiration from death and dying and incorporated it into his artwork, which established his name within the art community.
Hirst would also start to showcase his artwork in impromptu student galleries he organized himself in abandoned warehouses with fellow art students. This led to him being completely funded by Charles Saatchi for whatever artwork he created. He would go on to create his first “big” piece, which was the very famous dead shark in formaldehyde and cut in half, titled “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,” which went on to initially sell for £50,000.
This would bring in even more fame and notoriety for the unique installations and pieces that Damien Hirst created. All of them dealt with death and included sectioned cows and their calves, a dead sheep in formaldehyde, and other dead creatures. His exhibits became so controversial that public health officials for New York banned one of his exhibits for fear of guests vomiting and generally becoming sick.
During the 2000s, Hirst would continue to make his controversial pieces as well as focus on sculpture. Mostly recently in 2007, Damien Hirst created his “For the Love of God” piece which was a diamond encrusted platinum reconstruction of a human skull. This particular piece took 8,601 diamonds to complete and altogether had well over a million dollars worth of diamonds adorned to it.
Damien Hirst is still working and creating artwork to this day, as well as winning countless awards and being an overall controversial figure in the modern art community. However, his most recent works have included more traditional painting and woodcuts.
Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 Glass, painted steel, silicone, monofilament, shark and formaldehyde solution 85.5 x 213.4 x 70.9 in
Damien Hirst Dead Ends Died Out, Examined, 1993 Glass, painted MDF, ramin, steel, cigarettes and ash 60 x 96 x 4 in
Damien Hirst For the Love of God, 2007 Platinum, diamonds and human teeth 6.8 x 5 x 7.5 in
Damien Hirst Esculetin, 2012 2-inch woodcut spot Edition of 55 18.5 X 22 in.
Claes Oldenburg, known for his giant sculptures of everyday objects, died in his SoHo home and studio on Monday, July 18th, 2022. The cause of death was complications after a fall. Oldenburg was 93.
Oldenburg was born in Stockholm in 1929. His mother was a concert singer, his father a Swedish consular officer. The family moved to Chicago in 1936. He graduated from Yale in 1950, where he studied literature and art history. After graduating, he worked as a reporter in Chicago, then an illustrator in San Francisco. He became a United States citizen in 1953 and moved to New York in 1956, where he began his long and successful sixty-year career as an artist.
This year’s Armory Show will again be taking place in venues across New York. The Javits Convention Center, which became internationally famous at the start of the pandemic, has been expanded and will be the new permanent home of the Armory Show. Many galleries will be participating online because of travel restrictions.
One of the most dynamic shows is the Art on Paper exhibit, at Pier 36. In March of 2020 we were at Pier 36, along with more than ninety galleries, to celebrate paper-based artworks, which are our passion and main focus at VFA. That was when the city began to shut down in an effort to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The venues opening their doors for Armory Week this year have implemented some new social distancing policies, including timed arrival slots and mandatory face coverings at certain venues.
Damien Hirst’s show at this year’s Venice Biennale has, once again, created a storm of love-it-or-hate-it critiques.
There was much the same uproar when Hirst had his first major exhibition at the 1993 Venice Biennale. There he presented Mother and Child Divided, a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in separate display cases.
Damien Hirst has created a fictional museum, with works of fantasy, based on a myth that he created. What he would like viewers to do, is to suspend their beliefs and enter the world that he has created as if they too are seeing the works from a 2,000-year-old art collection that has ebbs dredged up from the bottom of the sea.
