Damien Hirst
SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY
by Jerry Saltz
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man.
Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art,
Jeff Koons,
Marcel Duchamp,
Francis Bacon and Catholicism. He’s the Âworking-class hero who as a 23-year-old art student at the University of London’s Goldsmiths college organized “Freeze,” an exhibition of his artwork and that of 15 school chums.
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