Damien Hirst Fiona Hall For the Love of God Paradisus Terrestris‚ Lotus 2007 1998 Visual Analysis of ‘For the Love of God’ and ‘Lotus’ Damien Hirst’s ‘For the Love of God’ is platinum casting of a human skull that is encrusted with high quality diamonds but has a feature of human teeth. The sculpture reflects the idea of death but tries to distinguish the difference between the negative side of death and the positive. Hirst wanted his work to be very positive even though it was
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Alecia Nadzan #192634 Image Analasys Lichty MTD Damien Hirst: The Tranquility Of Solitude (for George Dyer) The Tranquility Of Solitude is a three dimensional work of art by English contemporary artist Damien Hirst‚ debuted in 2006 at the Gagosian Gallery in London. Hirst uses dead animals in his “fineart‚” something that once shocked the art world. Is this “artwork” an ostensible farce operating on shockvalue alone? Or‚ could a lasting meaning to be derived from the artists creation make a
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Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War‚ and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu‚ Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944‚ and his son‚ producer Damien Parer‚ was born posthumously. He was also the uncle of Australian politician Warwick Parer and film-maker David Parer. He was cinematographer for Australia’s first Oscar winning film‚ Kokoda Front Line
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Damien Steven Hirst (born June 7‚ 1965‚ Bristol‚ Eng.)‚ British assemblagist‚ painter‚ and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty‚ death and rebirth‚ and medicine‚ technology‚ and mortality. Considered an enfant terrible of the 1990s art world‚ Hirst presented dead animals in formaldehyde as art. Like the French artist Marcel Duchamp‚ Hirst employed ready-made objects to shocking effect‚ and in the process he questioned the very nature of art. In 1995
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At Damien Memorial School‚ what makes us different‚ unites us. We may all look the same on the outside due to our uniforms‚ but we are all different people on the inside. As a freshman entering high school at a new school‚ I was very scared. I pictured high school filled with cliques consisting of nerds‚ jocks‚ and the popular people. And honestly‚ this made me feel very nervous. But it turned out to be completely different. Although Damien does have cliques‚ unlike other schools our cliques link
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have chosen to explore is ‘Turquoise Marilyn’‚ which is Acrylic and Silkscreen on Linen created by Andy Warhol‚ 1964. The second artefact is ‘For the Love of God’‚ which is platinum cast of a human skull‚ studded with over 8500 diamonds‚ created by Damien Hirst‚ 2007. While I think these two artifacts offer multiple topics of interesting similarities I want to focus on the impact that society‚ technological developments‚ economic factors and formal innovations had on the artists. The main question
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Humanities “Bring Forth the Fruits of Righteousness from Darkness” The artist of whose work I observed was Damien Hirst. He was born June 7 1965 and is an English artist‚ entrepreneur and art collector. The piece of art I observed was “Bring Forth the Fruits of Righteousness from Darkness”‚ it is a gloss covered canvas covered by real butterfly wings and household paint. It is set up to resemble three stained-glass windows from a gothic cathedral. The piece is on display at the Cleveland Museum
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Damien Hirst is no stranger to playing with morbid themes based on death‚ human self-destruction‚ and a somewhat forced mortality. “You try to avoid death‚ but it’s such a big thing that you can’t. That’s the frightening thing‚ isn’t it?” He often stresses that people are generally too concerned about what’s going on in between- nobody takes into consideration the start or the end‚ and just are happy to remain floating somewhere in the middle of these two points. In his early career he spent time
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diseased. Many famous people have gone to the poor and helped them. But today‚ I want to inform you of one particular special man. St. Damien of Molokai is a saint not many Catholics know about. He was born in Belgium on January 3‚ 1840. He was originally called Jozef De Veuster before he became a brother. He was the seventh child and was born into a farming family. St. Damien went to school until he was thirteen. Then he worked full-time on his family’s farm. Once he was old enough‚ he joined a religious
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When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories‚ a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft‚ his milieu‚ and his soul. Moreover‚ one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays‚ political tracts‚ biographies‚ and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson
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