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“Hirst treats colour as inventory — every spot a different shade, never repeated on the same canvas, the pharmacy as a colour theory.”
Damien Hirst
Painter · Contemporary · b. 1965
British artist whose spot paintings, butterflies, and spin works arrange household-gloss colour into pharmaceutical grids.
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“Hirst treats colour as inventory — every spot a different shade, never repeated on the same canvas, the pharmacy as a colour theory.”
British artist whose spot paintings, butterflies, and spin works arrange household-gloss colour into pharmaceutical grids.