I Love You.
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Title |
I Love You. |
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Creator |
Hirst, Damien (English sculptor, installation artist, and painter, born 1965) |
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Date |
1994-1995 |
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Cultural Context |
English
British
European |
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Style/Period |
Young British Art
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Mixed media
Butterflies
Insects |
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Description |
"There was a lyrical quality to Hirst's use of butterflies' lifecycles, both in the 1991 installation In and Out of Love, and the related 1994-5 series of paintings, of which I Love You forms part." (Caption, p.231); "By contrast to [Richard] Wilson's late modernist exploration of phenomenological paradox, 1991 saw a younger British artist named Damien Hirst produce a striking analogue for the relationship between aesthetic and lived experience. Wilson's installation had been designed for its location (site-specific), but Hirst's In and Out of Love, located in a makeshift gallery space in Woodstock Road, London, temporarily brought together a variety of disparate 'materials'. It also required the spectator's physical movement. In an upper room the cocoons of exotic butterflies were attached to large white canvases. Heat from radiators and plants in 'window boxes' at the bases of the canvases encouraged them to hatch and flourish briefly. In a lower room a myriad of gorgeous butterflies were embalmed on a set of brightly painted canvases. The butterflies' wings, in a curious mix of insensitivity and poetry, were lapped in paint." (Excerpt, pp.228-229) |
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Material |
Mixed media
Gloss household paint and butterflies on canvas
Paint
Canvas
Butterflies |
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Measurements |
2.14 x 2.14 m |
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Technique |
Painting (image-making) |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Mixed media |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.230, fig.123b) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Jay Jopling (London). |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-15.jpg |
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