Art without Borders
Art without Borders
The era of the Digital Revolution has made an enormous impact on the artistic world. Artists can create their work and not have to wait to find a gallery to display it in or a buyer to see it and choose it. As soon as an artist creates a piece it can be displayed through many different arenas. Cell phones, YouTube, Instagram are just a few. Of course, the artist can also catch some recognition by creating their own blog, giving information about the piece that they want the public to know about and understand. It is easier for them to get their work recognized, respected, and even bought.
Damien Hirst is a Contemporary artist who was born in 1965. He is a British artist that dominated in the art scene in the 1990s. Damien is a wealthy man and is also a movie director. He is best known for his work (and earning his fortune) by encasing flies, sharks, farm animals, cigarette butts and medicines in cases. He then became notable for spot and spin paintings he produced in the 1990s-2000s with a team of assistants. Today I will be focusing on his spot paintings.
In response to Damien Hirst's work that represents diversity throughout, I have created my own spot drawing that represents the way I see the spots.
Most see Hirst's Spot painting as the simple shape known as a circle, which are all the same size in the same pattern. Don't get me wrong thats how I saw the painting too when I first looked at it. This inspired me to create my own spot painting that truly represents the diversity throughout these simple same-sized circles and compare it to us as humans. This drawing represents us as humans, demonstrating in a sense that we are all the same. However, we also have unique features that represent who we are. Unique features include our gender, our looks, our personalities, our roles in the world. Just because we are all human does not mean we are all the same. We are all diverse in our own ways and there is nothing wrong with that. That makes us who we are. As you can see in my drawing, those circles are all the same shape, size, and in the same pattern however they all represent themselves in a distinctive way.