Sentences with phrase «spin paintings»

It took me another five years to come to a solution, and that was to make spin paintings.

His series of spin paintings, for instance, have been produced at a rate of 60 per year for the past three decades.

Hana Al - Saadi making spin paintings with Damien Hirst.

A Damien Hirst spin painting embellished with diamonds and butterflies, and a Kaleidoscope «Psalm» painting are on display as part of this group exhibition.

He copied pulpy images to paint nurses before Richard Prince did; he made spin paintings before Damien Hirst.

Tate Modern are currently exhibiting some of Hirst's spin paintings as part of their major Damien Hirst survey (until September).

In a similar manner to the rotating spin paintings unveiled at the exhibition, and the tri-vision billboard «The Problems with Relationships» (1996), there is an implied endlessness to the movement incorporated into the works.

In August, Hirst's importance as a British artist was recognised with the inclusion of his Union Jack spin painting in the Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremony.

In 1996, the exhibition «No Sense of Absolute Corruption» (Gagosian Gallery, New York) included spin paintings which rotated mechanically on the wall — Hirst's response to being repeatedly asked which way up they should be installed.

Some time after watching the Blue Peter episode, Hirst attended a school fête where he had the opportunity to try his hand at spin painting for the first time.

Ironically, it was within a similar context that Hirst would launch his own spin painting practice: having produced a number of early examples in his Brixton studio in 1992, the following year he set up a spin art stall with fellow artist Angus Fairhurst at Joshua Compston's street fair A Fête Worse than Death.

David was like a child, childish and childlike, when he came to see me in the studio and we made a giant spin painting together.

But that chart suggests the Contemporary market had little movement over a period of rapid growth (and it shows the enormous body of Spot paintings tracking at the same rate as the much less valuable and popular Spin paintings:

Four heart - shaped spin paintings with butterflies were auctioned in aid of Hirst's dedicated charities: Strummerville; Survival International; Kids Co; and Demelza.

The works chosen played like the Side A of a Hirst Greatest Hits record: sharks in formaldehyde, pill jars in medicine cabinets, drippy spin paintings, all the»90s classics.

A Damien Hirst spin painting closed the Olympics.

The gallery's Hirsts, including a 2007 spin painting priced at 250,000 pounds ($ 406,500), were in a closet.

The exhibition at Art Basel will include rare vintage prints and a selection of objects by Andrei Monastyrski, conceptual photographs by Valie Export, and two rare spin paintings by Alfons Schilling.

What is there to those empty spin paintings, enlarged versions of the pseudo-art made in funfairs?

The contingency of Damien Hirst's spin paintings point to the foundation of gestural abstraction, which places significance on techniques such as dripping, dabbing or flinging paint onto the surface of a canvas.

I could joke I made my first spin painting in Ocean City, New Jersey on the boardwalk in 1958 because the origins of the little spin machine must be buried somewhere in a popular reaction to abstract expressionism.

Executed in 1995, the same year that Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize, it is one of the only spin paintings to rotate mechanically on the wall, causing its kaleidoscopic surface patterns to shatter across its vast circular form.

YBA Artist Damien Hirst has told of how the inspiration for his iconic spin paintings were inspired by an episode of the Kids TV program Blue Peter.

Also on display are works from the spot and spin painting series, a «Kaleidoscope» painting and the vast formaldehyde sculpture «God Alone Knows» (2007).

You made spin paintings before Damien Hirst and then you stopped painting in the 1980s.

Hirst accompanied Hana on a tour of the studio before giving her the opportunity to make a number of spin paintings.

A Hirst spin painting, titled Beautiful, Whirling, Artists for Peace and Justice Painting, could be had for $ 130,000, and a giant jacquard tapestry version of Close's Self - Portrait (With Cigarette) was up for grabs for $ 250,000.

On the occasion of the sale, Hirst writes: «I love making spin paintings with kids, I've got a spin machine that I take to my kids» school and get all the kids doing them, the joy of making them is what somehow makes them great art, all those crazy moments throwing paint around.

It appears in the ability of Laura Owens to spin painting into unsettling myths.

As we first told you about here, Hirst's show, which will run through September, is a retrospective of his most famous pieces including spin paintings, skulls, and formaldehyde pieces, but none -LSB-...]

For the event, the notorious performance artist Leigh Bowery transformed Hirst and Fairhurst into clowns, and visitors were invited to create their own spin paintings, signed by the artists upon their completion.

Hana Al - Saadi made spin paintings with the artist after winning Qatar Museum Authority's competition to create an artwork inspired by Hirst.

They included a series of rotating spin paintings, such as «Beautiful, cheap, shitty, too easy, anyone can do one, big, motor - driven, roto - heaven, corrupt, trashy, bad art, shite, motivating, captivating, over the sofa, celebrating painting» (1996).

Three Hirst «spin paintings» are included in the exhibition, because, as the gallery explains, they «point to the foundation of gestural abstraction, which places significance on techniques such as dripping, dabbing or flinging paint onto the surface of a canvas.

In addition, there were a spot painting and a spin painting, plus the fly piece Saatchi purchased in 1990, «A Thousand Years» (1990).

Two spin paintings and a formaldehyde piece are currently being exhibited ahead of auction in London

A spin painting donated by the charitable trust founded by Hirst, entitled Beautiful Terminal Velocity Through Wormholes in Summertime Painting (2008), is to be auctioned at MTV RE: DEFINE's 2015 event, curated by The Future Tense in aid of The Staying Alive Foundation and Dallas Contemporary museum.

Two Hirst spin paintings — one made with Bowie — and a fish in formaldehyde are included.

The Hirst works chosen for inclusion are: the key «Mental Escapology» work «The History of Pain» (1999); a triptych of new paintings «Nothing Matters / The Empty Chair» (2008) and «Self Portrait Mexico» (2007 — 2008); the early print piece «With Dead Head» (1991); and the spin painting «Beautiful Quetzalcoatl Dysphoria Painting» (2007).

The spin paintings have two negatives which equals a positive.

The eleven major works presented included unique sculptures and a number of works taken from Hirst's three most recognisable series: the spot paintings; the spin paintings; and «Natural History».

The rotating works were constructed partly because Hirst was fed up with being asked which way the spin paintings should be hung, and partly to combat his sentiment that «the moment they [the spin paintings] stop, they start to rot and stink.»

These spun paintings conceal most of the painting inside them and act as strands of DNA that would unravel without the weight of their fixture's weighty history.

The paintings are a development of his spot paintings which, along with his animals preserved in formaldehyde and his spin paintings, are among Hirst's most recognisable works.

He also was recognized for his abstract «spin paintings» in the mid-1980s, well before his they became the claim to fame of his colleague Damien Hirst.

Chance methods have been explored in art by numerous artists such as Jackson Pollock and Damien Hirst in his «Spin Paintings».

Coloring fans of all ages can immerse themselves in themes and motifs found within some of the artist's most enduring series, including anatomical models, butterflies, medicine cabinets, spin paintings, color charts and kaleidoscope paintings.

Now that I am painting more directly I wonder if all the paintings that I've done, like the spin paintings, are about a sort of imaginary mechanical painter, like a machine that paints.