Damien Hurst

Damien Hurst is known as one of the young British artists and has many opinions about his work. In most of his art works, he combines animals and tanks, and most parts of his works, in my view express his feels and understanding of life.



Damien Hurst created the widely acclaimed 'freeze' exhibition in 1988 while still a student at Goldsmith college. This show launched the careers of many successful young British artists, including his own. Hirst graduated from Goldsmiths in 1989, and has since become the one of the most famous living British artist after David Hockney.
In 1991, Hirst brought forth 'In and out of love', an installation for which he filled a gallery with hundreds of live tropical butterflies, some spawned from monochrome canvases on the wall. With 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' (1991), his infamous tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery. This is what made him well known.
Damien Hurst has lots of interests life and death which are well expressed in his works. His work also focuses on alienation and family hood. This is show in one of his main works of a half cut open cow in a tank.
Damien Hurst his expressed many areas of life that some people find offensive because these are areas concern them and in some cases challenge there ideas of thinking, similarly like most modern art of themes of sex, rape and death he is considered to be one of the greatest of modern artist and is why I like his art work.