Included in the exhibition are more than three hundred paintings, including the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; the smallest Spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring less than a square inch (1996); a monumental work comprising only four spots, each sixty inches in diameter; and the most recent Spot painting (completed ...

Since 1986, Damien Hirst has produced over 1,000 spot paintings. The dots, which may appear machine-made but are each done by hand, celebrate technical precision and the simple joys of color.

Oct 29, 2024 · Endless dots and colour combinations - Damien Hirst ’s Spot Paintings are a defining feature of the controversial artist’s career. But how many spot paintings are there exactly? Hirst estimates to have produced around 1400 spot paintings since the genesis of …

Sep 20, 2024 · Damien Hirst’s complete Spot Paintings are duly documented in a comprehensive publication spanning his career from 1986 to 2011, titled “The Complete Spot Paintings”. Every spot painting the artist has ever produced is included in this book, with more than 99 percent of them illustrated.

The Spot paintings (1986–), of which there are now more than one thousand, present multicolored spots on white or near-white grounds and are painted by hand in glossy house paint. With these works, Hirst sought to paint as a machine yet allow for the subtle imperfections of …

Jun 12, 2013 · Damien Hirst’s spot paintings — some with dots about the size of pinholes, others 60 inches across — have long been celebrated, and disdained, for a certain anonymous, machinelike industrial...

Nov 27, 2023 · Endless dots and colour combinations - Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings are a defining feature of the controversial artist’s career. But how many spot paintings are there exactly...

This comprehensive volume features every Spot painting Hirst produced between 1986 and 2011, with over 99 percent of the works illustrated. The book is organized chronologically by year, and by classifications within each year.

Feb 2, 2012 · In Hirst’s Spot Paintings, the value of each individual “spot” of pure, unmodulated color becomes determined by the different color values of the spots adjacent to it.