Hirst, Damien - What Goes Up Must Come Down (1994) - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: What Goes Up Must Come Down (1994)
• Artist (if known): Damien Hirst
• Media or other details:  plexiglass, ahir dryer and ping-pong bat
• Publisher / Gallery: Tate Gallery, London / Collection of the artist
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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NOTES:

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Stock No.: A565

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Damien Steven Hirst^[1] (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is the most prominent^[2] member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.^[3] He is internationally renowned,^[4] and is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.^[5][6] During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.^[7]

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works.^[8][9] He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. The best known of these being The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (clear display case). He has also made ""spin paintings,"" created on a spinning circular surface, and ""spot paintings"", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.

In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist^[10] by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries.^[11] The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction^[12] as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.^[11]

In several instances since 1999, sources for certain of Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised, both in written articles by journalists and artists, and, in one instance, through legal proceedings which led to an out-of-court settlement.^[13]

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