Cubist Rendition of Damien Hirst

I chose this artist to represent my abstract cubism painting, because he has a really morbid personality in glorifying death through art, but at the same time tries to relate and connect it with human society as masterpieces that speak powerful words. Through research of understanding his personality and conceptualising on how to present those feelings the different elements of art, it all came down to drawing in canvas and painting in acrylic with a mixed media of plaster. At first I combined two abstract faces of his, one that is facing front and the other sidewards, and added shapes to create a form of distortion that is absolutely grotesque with injuries and diseases at its worst. Then came the suit that was two-sided to represent two perspectives of death in society, one where it is all perceived as something dark and terrible (as evident with the animal hinds and the hidden shark lurking behind), while the other represents a lighter and more appreciated tone as a reality in life (evident with the lighter tone of the suit and his famous Spot Paintings that give a sense of innocence). Then comes the frames covered with plaster in the painting from Damien Hirst’s famous steel-glass tanks where he puts decomposed organisms inside and preserve it with a solution known as formaldehyde. The formaldehyde solution is supposedly light blue, but that would actually ruin the whole theme that death is a mysterious element in society that is shrouded (associated mostly) with the darkness. The frames itself were covered with plaster to emphasise that it is an important piece to Damien Hirst’s artwork and crucial to storing death itself in a container (and I mean it literally!).