Damien Hirst at TATE MODERN

Damien Steven Hirst is not only an artist, but a successful entrepreneur as well. Although there are some controversies about his work, he is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artist and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist.

I am not care about whether his work is successfully well done, but indeed, his works are full of controversies that he made into full play, we could hardly find out the boundary between beauty and ugliness, virtue and evil, renascence and death.  When the butterfly stops in your shoulder, you would think do the butterfly comes from the carious cow head?

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works.  He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde.

He has also made "spin paintings," created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.

Hirst has been praised in recognition of his celebrity and the way this has galvanized interest in the arts, raising the profile of British Art and helping to recreate the image of "Cool Britannia” But there has been equally vehement opposition to Hirst's work. Brian Swell said simply, "I don't think of it as art ... It is no more interesting than a stuffed pike over a pub door. Indeed there may well be more art in a stuffed pike than a dead sheep."

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