DAMIEN HIRST "DUMPLING: LAST SUPPER" SCREENPRINT, 1999Damien Hirst is arguably the most successful living British artist. Since the late 1980s, he has created installations, sculptures, paintings, prints, and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, and life and death. He established his reputation, as both an artist and curator, in the 1990's with a new generation of creators knowns as the Young British Artists (YBAs). Hirst has become one of the art

to find items relevant to the ancient "history" of General Idea

"Blue Suds"

the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation

he does not fit neatly in to the categories normally used to describe post-war abstraction

this photograph rewards viewers who take their time to not only absorb the visual information but their implications as well

dinner parties

When joined together

Titled and numbered in pencil

While voluminous and intricate

screenprints

with a hand-written title at the top

informed by early encounters with French modernism and a deep engagement with the everyday world