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Damien Steven Hirst (/ h ɜːr s t /; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. [1] He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of a preserved tiger shark submerged in formalin in a glass-panel display case.
The leading figure of the Young British Artists, Damien Hirst is one of the most famous artists of his generation. Since the late 1980s, his work highlights the deep links between art, science and religion, whose common fund is the human experience and death.
One of the late-20 th century's greatest provocateurs and a polarizing figure in recent art history, Damien Hirst was the art superstar of the 1990s. As a young and virtually unknown artist, Hirst climbed far and fast, thanks to Charles Saatchi, an advertising tycoon who saw promise in Hirst's rotting animal corpses, and gave him a virtually ...
- British
- June 7, 1965
- Bristol, England
Few artists share Damien Hirst's power to shock and invigorate the debate surrounding contemporary art. The enfant terrible of the 1990s YBA era, Hirst is today one of the most successful artists in the world.
Jul 20, 2023 · Damien Hirst with the Coast Paintings, 2019© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2023. Presented by HENI, Where the Land Meets the Sea has opened at Phillips’ London galleries on Berkeley Square. The show has also launched a drop on the HENI Primary digital platform.
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Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
