“Art comes from everywhere…”
Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, is a 1991 artwork by Damien Hirst. You know it as that weird shark in a tank of formaldehyde. Hirst like most abstract artists, doesn’t always work in such radical, divisive, and innovative ways. In fact he is a highly trained and highly competent oil painter. For these works he has a fascination with medical and pharmaceutical themes. Here is an amazingly executed oil painting of an operating theatre in action. It was produced in 2007 and captures the caesarian birth of Hirst’s own son. You will seldom encounter the act of surgery so well represented in art. The technical, the mundane, and the humanity are all there to see. #babyphotos #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 