2007年2月15日 · The toy manufacturer, Humbrol, later sued Hirst because Hymn is an exact replica of their 14" Young Scientist Anatomy Set designed by Roman Emms. Resurrection is simply a skeleton suspended in a crucifixion pose by two panes of glass.

Hymn, a twenty-foot-tall painted bronze anatomical model, transforms a childhood educational toy into a monumental sculpture and is emblematic of Hirst’s playful nature. A desire for order and a humanized science are embedded in a group of spectacular wunderkammern (cabinets of curiosities) that make visceral the themes of absence, longing ...

2024年5月14日 · The Anatomical Angel (2008) is a striking sculpture by Damien Hirst, depicting a winged figure with exposed anatomical structures. This piece symbolizes the intersection of life and death, science and spirituality, while showcasing Hirst’s fascination with the human body.

2018年10月21日 · I ask myself if progressing through these mental steps is precisely what Hirst intended the viewer’s experience to involve. Whatever, he plays on our squeamish fascination for things scientific, forensic, visceral and medical and does so …

The artwork, entitled “Hymn,” is a creation by the artist Damien Hirst, and it is associated with the Conceptual Art movement. This piece is an installation that vividly presents an anatomical subject rendered in a monumental sculpture. The artwork features an enlarged representation of the human body, focusing on its anatomical structure.

2013年10月8日 · Called “The Miraculous Journey,” it consists of 14 monumental bronze sculptures, by the British artist Damien Hirst, chronicling the gestation of a fetus inside a uterus, from conception to...

Since emerging onto the international art scene in the late 1980s, Damien Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death.

Damien Hirst (British, b.1965) ... The more celebratory work 'Hymn' (2000), a polychrome bronze sculpture, reveals the anatomical musculature and internal organs of the human body on a monumental scale. Hirst has had exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world. He received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin in 1994 and the Turner Prize ...

2015年6月18日 · The Anatomy of an Angel (2008) is a striking marble sculpture created by Damien Hirst, one of the most popular contemporary artists worldwide. It is a large-scale sculpture made of Carrara marble. It depicts an angel, creating in this way an obvious reference to the classical statues of the past.

Anatomy of an Angel is a contribution to the collection by British artist Damien Hirst (born 1965). His use of painting, drawing and various installations explore the relationship between art, beauty, religion, science, life and death. Anatomy of an Angel is hewn in Carrara marble and the artist's first sculpture in this material.