Essays on Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is one of the most expensive contemporary artists who became such because of topic of death and his own impudence. His works provoke both delight and disgust; collectors pay for them millions of dollars. How he manages to sell the dismembered animals rolled into formaldehyde for such fabulous sums – this seems to be a secret. But one thing is for sure – Damien Hirst is a talent who has his own unique style. In 1988, Hirst organized the exhibition of young artists called Freeze. A collector and promoter Charles Saatchi came to check young talents and their works. ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

Who would have ever imagined, in their wildest dreams that a simple splatter of paint, a solid coat of one single colour painted on a canvas, or even an infant like sketch that would take 10 seconds to complete, would in the right hands sell for millions and millions of dollars? Is this even possible in today’s vast and sweeping art market? It most certainly is, and records for highest priced artworks sold over the last century continue to be broken to this very day. However it is our intention to explore specifically as to why such simple ...