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2. + Life of Damien Hirst But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualize it, you still just live. - Damien Hirst

3. + Went to Leeds School of Art for a foundation course. Went to Goldsmiths College for the BA Fine Arts Course. Graduated in 1965. Born in Bristol, England in 1965 Brought up in Leeds.

4. + While still a student, Damien Hirst devised and organized an exhibition called “Freeze” Damien’s pieces of art were displayed along with 16 of his fellow students. Charles Saatchi began to collect Hirst’s work after this exhibition. He showed great growth in art when he switched from installation art to paintings. The info of his life is written like a data being told, I need your personal views and reactions as well.

5. + Work of Damien Hirst

6. + Predominant theme: death Damien Hirst’s central, though not exclusive theme has been an exploration of mortality. Hirst has modified his approach to this theme with wit, flamboyance, verve and originality. His most famous works include The Natural History series; in which dead animals are presented in a grotesque manner. No one has fully understood this array of corpse displays. But everyone who has physically experienced it (first-hand) believes it has a powerful visual image that is “unmatched by any description of it”. This, many people believe, is the reason Damien was short listed for the Turner Prize in 1992 The words are not entirely yours you've e picked up sentences and put theme here, I cannot see if you have actually understood anything here

7. + For The Love Of God Made using a real, human skull Used 8,601 diamonds. The idea of the title came about when Hirst’s mother said to him “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?” The title is meant to be iconic and ironic. Conveys the transience of life and the Archeology inspiring his art? Hirst maintains that the diamonds are insignificant Use of real, human skull seems very sadistic for a man who’s so influenced by the Bible. I like the annotations u’ve made to explain his work, after writing about the work you need to write your personal reaction to his work, your reaction too the artist was visible when you were talking about him in class, that should show in this as well

8. + Natural History Series: Away From The Flock Corpses of a sheep a tank with formaldehyde. Although he doesn’t know the meaning of it, Hirst has a compulsion for beauty. He transforms an organism- which is lifeless- and he retrieves its lost vitality. He forces us to focus on the sheep, an animal that been provides us with food and warmth, transforming it from the mundane into something “special”. ‘Away from the Flock’, is a term associated with religion, specifically Christianity. The sheep in seems oblivious to its fate and appears to be prancing with life.

9. + No Love Lost (Painting) Diamond shapes and lines makes it interesting Hue: Blue-black Intensity: Varies Value: A combination This background is very boring for an artist like Hirst. Although, it intensifies the skull in the middle. Gives a strange feeling of electric currents Positive spaces in the center, and negative near the borders The skull is in the center, so that balances the painting out a little. Asymmetrical because of the sudden, yellow color Focal point: skull Contrasts with the background colors

10. + Bibliography http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html http://anthropology.net/2007/06/01/damien-hirsts-diamond- encrusted-skull-jeweled-skulls-in-archaeology/ http://anthropology.net/2007/06/01/damien-hirsts-diamond- encrusted-skull-jeweled-skulls-in-archaeology/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0vL0V1Vklo&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ6isqr2OY http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a- z/H/6043/artistName/Damien%20Hirst/recordId/87212 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a- z/H/6043/artistName/Damien%20Hirst/recordId/87212 Accessed: 2 November 2011