The Virtues Control H9-8
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About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *The Virtues Control H9-8* distils the artist’s enduring investigation of belief systems into a work of striking optical intensity. Built through a rigorously controlled process, the composition deploys a calibrated field of colour and rhythm—its serial structure echoing the logic of scientific charts while remaining emphatically painterly. Hirst’s use of repetition and measured variation generates a sense of pulsation across the surface, drawing the eye into a dynamic interplay between order and sensation. As part of *The Virtues* series, the work carries cultural resonance: it stages an encounter between moral taxonomy and contemporary image-making, asking how values are organised, codified, and perceived. Visually commanding yet conceptually precise, it exemplifies Hirst’s ability to translate big philosophical questions into immediate, immersive experience.
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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