Description
The edition, named Fruitful, shows brilliant, unique subtleties from Hirst’s new arrangement of Cherry Blossom works of art. Portraying bloom trees in full blossom, the series is inspired by Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, and the Pointillist advancements of Georges Seurat.
The new restricted version prints show close up subtleties of the thickly layered and brilliant spots of paint from segments of the huge scope canvases.
Cherry Blossoms. The result of over two years of intense work in his London studio, the series is part of Damien Hirst’s career-long investigation into painting and his desire to return to the pure immediacy of this element of his practice.
The Cherry Blossoms reinterpret, with playful irony, the traditional subject of landscape painting. Hirst combines thick brushstrokes and elements of gestural painting, referencing both Impressionism and Pointillism, as well as Action Painting. The monumental canvases, which are entirely covered in dense bright colors, envelope the viewer in a vast landscape that traverses the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. Cherry Blossoms are at once a subversion and homage to the great artistic movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are part of the pictorial investigation carried out by Hirst since the start of his career, which explores color, beauty, perception and the role of the artist.
