For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. [1] Damien Hirst Damien Hirst: For the Love of God TateShots 11 April 2012 Damien Hirst: For the Love of God The YBA discusses his iconic diamond-covered skull For the Love of God 2007 For the Love of God 2007 is a life-size platinum cast of an eighteenth century human skull, covered by 8,601 flawless diamonds, inset with the original skull's teeth.
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Damien Hirst (b. 1965) , Spin Skull Christie's
Art World Turns Out the Diamond Skull That Damien Hirst and White Cube Said They Sold for $100 Million in 2007 Still Belongs to Them The work appears to have been inside a storage facility in London for 15 years. Artnet News, January 26, 2022 Victory over Death, 2008 Weng Contemporary €25,000 Damien Hirst Damien Hirst Damien Hirst at Tate Modern: the making of my diamond skull - video The artist reveals his thoughts behind the construction of For the Love of God, his £50m platinum and diamond. Just days earlier the British artist Damien Hirst unveiled a platinum human skull covered in 8,601 diamonds and offered it for sale for £50 million, or close to $100 million. But if.
Damien HIRST (1965) Skull, 2009 Spin painting sur carton 71
Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965, Bristol, England) British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality. Considered an enfant terrible of the 1990s art world, Hirst presented dead animals in formaldehyde as art. 50 Crown jewel or kitsch novelty?. Hirst's skull. Photograph: AFP Securing an interview with God himself would be easier than setting eyes on Damien Hirst's latest work, For The Love of. A £50m Damien Hirst diamond-encrusted skull will be shown in Turbine Hall to accompany a Tate Modern retrospective of his work from 4 April. For the Love of God will be displayed until 24 June.. In memento mori: Modern expressions. British artist Damien Hirst's sculpture For the Love of God, a life-size platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds and inset with the original teeth, made headlines as possibly the most expensive piece of art ever made.Themes such as the fragility of life, defiance of… Read More
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Damien Hirst (b. 1965) , Spin Skull Christie's
Damien Hirst's skull tasteless? That's the point Critics who didn't like it missed a trick - the diamond skull shattered the pretence that the market has no bearing on 'serious art' Jonathan. 1. The most expensive work of art by a living artist Hirst has claimed in interviews that For the Love of God cost him a colossal £8 million to finance, but the final figure actually reached the even greater sum of £15 million.
Damien Hirst sends a chill through the art world.. The answer, pictured here, is a life-size platinum skull set with 8,601 high-quality diamonds. If, as expected, it sells for around $100. Damien Hirst explores the symbolism of the skull and the futility of decorating plastic skulls in an attempt to make death more palatable.. place but also a bit out of place there are many unanswerable questions in my family and that's one of them I think the skull is a really great symbol because it just doesn't give you any answers in it.
Damien Hirst Skull Spin Painting (2009) Available for Sale Artsy
For just over a month (November 1 - December 15, 2008), Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum acquired a new art chapel, an almost pitch-black, 30-square-meter room housing Damien Hirst's spotlighted skull, For the Love of God (2007). I entered the space after taking part in what was almost a procession. By Scott Reyburn Jan. 21, 2022 LONDON — "He's a talented artist, but this? Really ?" said Alan Baldwin, an art collector, looking down recently at a fluffy black sculpture of a spider with bow legs.
