Damien Hirst’s Shark Explained
March 8, 2023
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (aka The Shark) shot Damien Hirst to fame amid a tidal wave of acclaim and derision.
March 8, 2023
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (aka The Shark) shot Damien Hirst to fame amid a tidal wave of acclaim and derision.
November 23, 2022
Relational Aesthetics or Relational Art in its essence is creative practice that blurs, or eliminates, the line that divides artist and art from audience.
November 7, 2022
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” One could speculate that for as long as there has been art, there has been appropriation.
September 26, 2022
John Baldessari was an American artist who was often referred to as the “Godfather of Conceptual Art,” the “Master of Appropriation” and a “Surrealist for the Digital Age.” His conceptual artworks and 50-year long body of work redefined modern art, fundamentally altering the way the world views art. He did this by practicing, creating, and teaching…
September 22, 2022
Investigating Installation Art One of the hottest trends in art exhibitions of the early 2020s was the immersive exhibition. These showcases, in which works by later nineteenth-century masters like Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh seemingly come to life in all-enveloping spaces, dazzled audiences by engulfing each visitor in the beauty of each work of…
Image from Sworders’ March 14, 2023 sale.
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