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The Cure (emerald green, powder pink, victorian purple) - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2014 - MyArtBroker

The Cure (emerald green, powder pink, victorian purple)
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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72 x 51cm, Edition of 15, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 15
Year: 2014
Size: H 72cm x W 51cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Meaning & Analysis

The Cure (emerald green, powder pink, victorian purple) is one of thirty silkscreen prints that compose Hirst’s The Cure series. The series is inspired by modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. This theme is further explored by Hirst in his Eat the Rich series in which the artist depicts pharmaceutical packaging, as opposed to the products themselves, like he does in this series. Each print in The Cure series depicts a singular pill with ‘this end up’ written in faded, capitalised letters. The colours vary among the prints, with some bold colours that clash with one another, and others using various tones of the same colour. Each colour combination is unique, bringing dynamism to the series.

The bold and vibrant colours Hirst uses in The Cure (emerald green, powder pink, victorian purple), as well as the silkscreen printing technique resonates with the Pop Art aesthetic developed by Andy Warhol in the 1960s. Warhol clearly influenced Hirst’s work and Hirst’s repetition of the pill in The Cure series resonates with Warhol’s prints of Campbell’s Soup cans.

  • Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

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