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The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art holds an exhibition "Damien Hirst. Cherry Blossom.".
Visitors will see a cycle of paintings that the author - a contemporary art star and the richest artist of our time - created over the course of three years.
Hurst worked on Cherry Blossom alone, without any helpers in anything, and finished the cycle this past November. The artist said in an interview, "Cherry Blossoms are beauty, life and death. They are extreme - there is something almost vulgar about them... They are decorative, but belong to nature... They are bright, messy and delicate" - this is a quote from the Cartier Foundation website. Hirst also said that he was inspired by painters of the past, above all Pierre Bonnard, his landscapes with blossoming trees. He also joked that when he painted only trunks, his canvases looked like failed paintings by David Hockney, obviously recalling the huge landscape "Tall Trees near Worter" and the series "The Coming of Spring" by the living classic of English painting.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris.
Visitors will see a cycle of paintings that the author - a contemporary art star and the richest artist of our time - created over the course of three years.
Hurst worked on Cherry Blossom alone, without any helpers in anything, and finished the cycle this past November. The artist said in an interview, "Cherry Blossoms are beauty, life and death. They are extreme - there is something almost vulgar about them... They are decorative, but belong to nature... They are bright, messy and delicate" - this is a quote from the Cartier Foundation website. Hirst also said that he was inspired by painters of the past, above all Pierre Bonnard, his landscapes with blossoming trees. He also joked that when he painted only trunks, his canvases looked like failed paintings by David Hockney, obviously recalling the huge landscape "Tall Trees near Worter" and the series "The Coming of Spring" by the living classic of English painting.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris.
