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The first and most significant documentation of Damien Hirst's iconographic spot paintings documented in this comprehensive publication spanning his career. Every spot painting Hirst has produced is included in this substantial publication, with over 95% of them illustrated. Hirst has said' I started them as an endeless series like a sculptural idea of a painter (myself). A scientific approach to painting in a similar way to the drug companies' scientific approach to life. Art doesn'r purport to have all of the answers, drug companies do. Hence the title of the series - The Pharmaceutical Paintings' and then the individual titles themselves Acetaldehyde (1991), Albumin Human Glycated (1992). In the spot paintings the grid-like structure creates the beginning of the system. On each painting no two colours are the same. This ends the system; it's a simple system. No matter how i feel as an artist or a painter, the paintings end up looking happy. I cn still make all the emotional decisions about colour that i need to as an artist, but in the end they are lost. The end of painting. And i'm still painting: am I a painter? Or a sculptor who paints? Or just an artist? I don't know. It's not important. But it's very important that there is an endless series or enough to imply an endless series.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1234146 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-14
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 1024 pages