It looks like this will be followed counting points ...

Artist Damien Hirst
Source: telegraph.co.uk

So how many paintings created with colored dots Damien Hirst? It may seem that this question is rhetorical, but no - the exact amount announced. Their 1365. All works were counted with colored dots from the mid-1980s, when Hearst first approached the subject, and to the present day.

some point - in fact the point, others reach a diameter of 150 centimeters. According to the artist, the point - "this is a mechanical way to avoid that a real person, he is sitting in a room in front of a blank canvas." The first few dozen "point" paintings Hurst wrote himself, then most of the work took over his assistants.

series of paintings with the points («spot paintings») - is one of the most popular Hirst. In 2012, for example, 11 Larry Gagosian galleries around the world held a one-off show "point "pictures . The most loyal fans, who visited all 11 exhibits, got one picture as a gift . "Point" of fans turned out to 128 people.

This fall, publisher Hearst, the company Other Criteria, published a catalog raisonné-all "point" paintings. But to dwell on this artist is going. According to his representative, James Kelly Hurst is now working on a painting with a very small dots, the total number of which is to reach one million. On the creation of a "point" of a masterpiece will take several years.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru