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Which British artist is famous for his spot paintings?
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The British artist famous for his spot paintings is Damien Hirst. He began producing these pieces in the 1980s. One example, the 2005 painting Xylene Cyanol Dye Solution, is striking for its machinelike uniformity and almost childlike simplicity, a seeming rebuke to the idea of the artist-as-genius. Hirst is the most prominent of the Young British Artists, or YBAs, who began exhibiting together in warehouses and factories in the 1980s. Hirst is known for his use of unconventional materials and “shock tactics” in his paintings, prints, sculptures and other works. On 1stDibs, explore a selection of Damien Hirst art.
1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025
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DAMIEN HIRST - THE CURRENCY. Original work The Currency Project. Dots. Colors
By Damien Hirst
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAMIEN HIRST - THE CURRENCY: 6274. NOBODY SHOULD HEAR IT
Date of creation: 2016
Medium: Enamel paint on handmade paper
Edition: 5.149 unique works on paper
Size: 21.5 x 30 cm
Conditi...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
DAMIEN HIRST - EMPRESSES: SUIKO Limited Modern Butterflies glitter red
By Damien Hirst
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Damien Hirst - THE EMPRESSES - SUIKO
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite and screen printed with glitter.
Edition number: 1191/3310 (1.657 ph...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Glitter, Panel, Giclée, Screen
DAMIEN HIRST - THE EMPRESSES - THEODORA - Limited edition Contemporary Modern
By Damien Hirst
Located in Madrid, Madrid
THE EMPRESSES - THEODORA
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite and screen printed with glitter.
Edition number: 1226/3315 (1.566 physical + 1.7...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Glitter, Panel, Giclée, Screen
Rhodotorulic Acid. Woodcut in colors. Signed.
By Damien Hirst
Located in Paris, FR
HIRST Damien (1965 - )
Rhodotorulic Acid. Woodcut in colors. Signed.
Provenance : DTR Modern Gallery, New York.
About Damien Hirst (Artist)
British artist Damien Hirst is widely considered the enfant terrible of contemporary art. He is the most prominent of the so-called Young British Artists, or YBAs, a group, largely composed of Hirst’s classmates at Goldsmiths, in London, that began exhibiting together in warehouses and factories after 1988 and is known for the use of unconventional materials and “shock tactics.”
In the 1990s, Hirst said, “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.” And indeed, he is notorious for piquing critics and baffling the public with such pieces as his signature glass vitrines containing dead sheep or sharks in formaldehyde, and his diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God.
Working primarily in sculpture, Hirst takes after French modernist master Marcel Duchamp in his use of ready-made objects and materials, which he combines to ironic effect. He often creates in series, as with The Cure (Violet) and The Cure (Turquoise), both from 2014, which are among several pill paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
The Empresses
By Damien Hirst
Located in Norwich, GB
DAMIEN HIRST (BORN 1965)
Taytu Betul, from 'The Empresses' (H10-5), 2022 signed in pencil on the publisher's label affixed verso, stamp-numbered,
laminated giclée print with screenpr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Panel, Digital, Giclée
For the Love of God (with diamond dust), Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Damien Hirst (1965)
Title: For the Love of God (with diamond dust)
Year: 2009
Medium: Silkscreen, glazes, and diamond dust on wove paper
Edition: 591/1000
Size: 12.75 x 9.5 i...
Category
Early 2000s New Media Figurative Prints
Materials
Glaze, Screen
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