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The Dead (Westminster blue, silver gloss) - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2009 - MyArtBroker

The Dead (Westminster blue, silver gloss)
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Foil Block

Edition size: 15

Year: 2009

Size: H 72cm x W 51cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Meaning & Analysis

The print, made in 2009, is part of the artist’s The Dead series which is composed of thirty-one prints. Like many of his other artworks, death is the central theme of the series, as represented by the skull. Unlike other series, such as I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am (2007), and Memento (2008), Hirst incorporates bright and vibrant colours into the prints, countering the sombre tone often associated with artworks that deal with death.

Hirst has had a long-standing interest in questions of life and death. When the artist was sixteen, he used to go to the anatomy department of Leeds Medical School to produce life drawings of the cadavers he encountered there. Hirst also created artworks out of dead animals and insects, such as his iconic installation, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) which was a 14-foot long tiger shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde.

  • Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

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