标题: 2013.05.12艺术家Damien Hirst [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-4-20 15:54 标题: 2013.05.12艺术家Damien Hirst Released On: 12 May 2013Available for over a year
Kirsty Young's guest this week is the artist Damien Hirst.
Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; his art - using sharks, maggots, butterflies, glass, formaldehyde and even sometimes paint - is not. His best known works have become iconic symbols of contemporary culture and his exhibitions and auctions attract attention the way a carcass attracts flies.
Growing up in Leeds his mother was something of an early artistic influence - she had dots painted on the front door and whenever Damien said he'd finished a drawing, she'd lay another sheet of paper down and tell her son "carry on."
He once said, "People don't like contemporary art but all art starts life as
