Picture "Butterfly Heart (Large)" (2020)
Picture "Butterfly Heart (Large)" (2020)
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limited, 1,698 copies | signed | dated | Giclée print on aluminium | unframed | size 70 x 73 cm
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Picture "Butterfly Heart (Large)" (2020)
Damien Hirst recently created this work to support the British National Health Service (NHS) during the Corona Crisis. The work, titled "Butterfly Heart", consists of strips of coloured butterfly wings, one of the artist's best-known subjects.
All profits generated by the sale will be donated to the National Health Service: "I wanted to do something to pay tribute to the wonderful work NHS staff are doing in hospitals around the country. The rainbow is a sign of hope and I think it is brilliant that parents and children are creating their own version and putting them up in the windows of their homes," the British artist states.
Hirst's "Butterfly Heart" is digitally numbered and signed.
Laminated Giclée print, 2020. Edition: 1,698 copies on aluminium composite panel, signed and dated on the back. Size 70 x 73 cm.
About Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst has made his persona into a brand – in fact, an extremely successful one. Today, the painter and sculptor is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary artists, he regularly exhibits in the world's important art houses and collectors sometimes pay astronomically high prices for his works.
He secured the public's attention at the latest with spectacular and provocative installations such as the animal cadavers preserved in formaldehyde. He has also kept himself in the (art) news with equally spectacular works, such as a skull set with 8,601 diamonds.
Hirst worked hard for his success. He was born in Bristol in 1965 and grew up in rather poor circumstances. He studied at Goldsmiths College in London from 1986 to 1989, organised the exhibition "Freeze" in 1988, which is considered the birth of the "Young British Artists", and received the renowned Turner Prize in 1995.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.