The Virtues Honesty H9-5
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *The Virtues Honesty H9-5* belongs to the artist’s ongoing “Virtues” series, where colour, chance, and belief converge in a contemporary meditation on value systems. Executed through Hirst’s distinctive spin-painting process, the work’s concentric, centrifugal bursts of pigment are built through controlled rotation, allowing gravity and velocity to choreograph the paint’s dispersal. The result is at once exuberant and exacting: a luminous field where surface sheen, layered viscosity, and rhythmic movement create optical depth. By naming the composition after “Honesty,” Hirst links abstraction to moral language, reframing gestural painting as a cultural proposition—one that resonates amid today’s debates on authenticity, trust, and spectacle in the art market and beyond.
About the Artist
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
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