96. My favorite artist / form of art is ___. Perhaps you are dumfounded by Damien Hirst’s pieces or the sculptures of Rodin set your heart ablaze. Maybe you are more of a painting fan with Dali’s surrealism topping your favorites. 97. If my life were made into a movie, I’d l...
Damien Hirst, British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality. Hirst employed ready-made objects to shocking effect, and in t
Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-born British advertising executive who was perhaps best known as a collector of contemporary art. His brother Maurice was a full partner in his advertising concerns. Learn more about Charles’s life and career, including informatio
Lee Bontecou was an American artist whose work ranged from dark, dramatic abstract constructions to softer, transparent natural forms, evoking a correspondingly broad range of response. Bontecou studied art at Bradford Junior College (now Bradford Colleg
A memento mori, in art and religion, is a symbolic trope or meditative practice that serves as a reminder of mortality and the transitory nature of life. The notion of “remembering death” (Latin: memento mori) appears throughout European history. Other
Sherrie Levine, American conceptual artist known for remaking famous 20th-century works of art either through photographic reproductions (termed re-photography), drawing, watercolor, or sculpture. Her appropriations are conceptual gestures that question
art collectorCharles Saatchihad already sparked controversy when it opened at the Royal College of Art in 1997. The public protested the inclusion ofcontentiousartworks byTracy Emin, Marcus Harvey, andDamien Hirst, but Ofili’s work had not been singled out during the uproar. In theUnited ...
provocative, and transgressive, often portraying sexual acts and reproductive organs. Critics are seldom lukewarm in their response to her. LikeDamien HirstandSarah Lucas, she is considered one of the YBAs (Young British Artists; also known as the BritArtists) who came to prominence in the ...
Like other up-and-coming artists known as YBAs (Young British Artists; also known as the BritArtists)—including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin—Whiteread was scorned by many reviewers. Whiteread’s next major project was Ghost (1990), which bumped the scale of her sculpture up to room size....
The art market is the physical or figurative venue in which art is bought and sold. At its most basic, an art market requires a work of art, which might be drawn from a very wide range of collectible objects; a seller; and a buyer, who may participate di