Damien Hirst, 'Virtues: Courage', Print 2021
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
Damien Hirst's 'Courage', created in 2021, is part of his Virtues series.
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Giclée
Damien Hirst, 'Virtues: Courage', Print 2021
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
Damien Hirst's 'Courage', created in 2021, is part of his Virtues series.
Giclée
Damien Hirst, 'Virtues: Courage', Print 2021
By Damien Hirst
Located in Miami, FL
Damien Hirst's 'Courage', created in 2021, is part of his Virtues series.
Giclée
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H 55.5 in W 45.75 in D 2 in
The Virtues 'Courage', Limited Edition 'Cherry Blossom' Landscape
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
The contemporary pop art cherry blossom landscape ‘Courage' is one of the eight from the iconic ‘Virtues’ series by Damien Hirst, the laminated giclée print on aluminum panel was cre...
Laminate, Panel, Giclée
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H 47.25 in W 37.8 in D 0.79 in
Damien Hirst, Courage (The Virtues, H9-2) - Signed Print, Cherry Blossoms
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, b. 1965) Courage (The Virtues, H9-2), 2021 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Dimensions: 37 4/5 × 47 1/5 in (96 × 120 cm) Editio...
Giclée
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 his paintings, prints, sculptures and other works.
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 referencing Andy Warhol’s embrace of mass production.
Belonging to Hirst's ongoing series of “spot” paintings, begun in the 1980s, the 2005 piece Xylene Cyanol Dye Solution is striking for its machinelike, industrial uniformity and almost childlike simplicity, a seeming rebuke to the idea of the artist-as-genius.
In addition to making art, Hirst has launched stores that sell editioned works (Other Criteria), a restaurant (Pharmacy2) and even his own London museum (Newport Street Gallery).
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Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
Fierceness and fragility coalesce as the British artist revisits a cherished motif — the butterfly.