week Three- Damien Hirst's work 'For the Love of God' and Mercantilism
Research Damien Hirst's work For the Love of God (2007) in order to answer the following questions;
1. Describe the work, giving details of the form and materials.
2. What does the work mean? What is Damien Hirst communicating in the work?
4. How much did the work cost, and how much was it sold for, and who bought it?
1. Describe the work, giving details of the form and materials.
2. What does the work mean? What is Damien Hirst communicating in the work?
"The Love of God' was made to forward the idea of death. Damien Hirst's works mostly relats to the idea, death and this peice " the love of god" do relate to the idea of death but in a possitive way that people can think about the happy death. “Then I started to think — maybe that’s why it is a good thing to do. Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make something that laughed in the face of it.”
As Damien Hirst said "As an artist I try to make things that people can believe in, that they can relate to, that they can experience. You therefore have to show them as well as possible."
When I see this peice , it reminds me of Micheal Jackson because before his death, he was real famous as a "king of POP." The diamonds would symbolize the fame and money and the skull would be symblizing the death of Micheal Jackson.
3. How does Hirst's diamond encrusted skull relate to Mercantilism and to conspicuous consumption?
Damien Hirst's diamond encrusted skull does relate to Mercantilism because of the 8, 601 diamonds. In the past diamonds were only purchased by the high-class people that were able to use in trading and buying items that were mostly expensive. By the successful outcome of this piece, it has proven the mercantilism and also has forward the past history of how it was like between the 16-18th century.
4. How much did the work cost, and how much was it sold for, and who bought it?
Damien Hirst spent 20 million to make the "the love of god" and by the rumours , he sold it for 100 million, which makes th most expensive contemporary art work ever.
The piece is displayed at the White Cube Gallery in London.
5. What are some of the differing opinions of the journalists in the newspaper and blog articles?
What did they think of the work?
What did they think of the work?
"But attention is different from respect, and if you ask the man in the street he’ll tell you that Hirst became a billionaire by cynically exploiting our collective greed and stupidity." said by Richard Dorment. Damien hirst is seen as a negative person and a non-believer that doesnt have any religion.
"...he found a remarkably effective way to bring us face to face with death’s emptiness, its finality, its silence. Not all of the animal and fish pieces work, but when they do they are mesmerising." Damien Hirst was also known as a dark person that didnt quite see the positive side of the reality and Hirst only saw the four main things which was Death, Judgement, hell and Heven, alot of his works did refer to them.
"...he found a remarkably effective way to bring us face to face with death’s emptiness, its finality, its silence. Not all of the animal and fish pieces work, but when they do they are mesmerising." Damien Hirst was also known as a dark person that didnt quite see the positive side of the reality and Hirst only saw the four main things which was Death, Judgement, hell and Heven, alot of his works did refer to them.
6. Based on your research, what is your opinion of the work, as an object or a work of art.
In my opinion, Damien Hirst art piece " For the love of God" is the first and the most expensive contemporary art piece Ive ever heard. The idea of using real diamond into an old skull to make an art work was very creative. Not only its a successful piece of work, it also explains itself of the historical past of mercantilism. I think this piece is very unique in a way of the idea death.
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" For the love of God" (2007) by Damien Hirst, is a real-life human head skull with the influence of the mexican skulls encrusted in turquoise. The diamonds that is on the skull is set 8,601 high-quality diamonds.This peice of artwork turns out to the most expensive contemporary peice that have ever been created.
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