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today's artistical-world the use of anatomy and
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interest in the subject still continues. Damien
our
has continued the trend producing some of the
Hirst
expensive works of art for any living artist.
most
diamond-encrusted skulls to large sculptures,
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is prepared to remind us all of our own mortality
he
the same way that his predecessors have in the
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past.
past renaissance masters such as Leonardo Da
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to modern artists such as Hirst, the art of
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holds a mirror to our never-ending
anatomy
with the human body. It reminds us of all
fascination
our complexities, our strengths and reminds
about
that underneath our own skin, we are all the
us
work of Da Vinci, Vesalius and the many others
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us to understand the complex nature of our
helped
They were prepared to challenge ideas that
bodies.
gone unchallenged for 1300 years. Because of
had
the advances in modern-day medicine has
this,
at an accelerated pace. They challenged a
advanced
world that still saw the dissection of man
scientific
only as barbaric but a challenge to God. Over
not
art of anatomy is more than just the images that
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produced by artists. It reminds us that in order
were
advance further medically, the need for
to
is absolute. Art is more than a pencil
collaboration
"From diamondencrusted
skulls to large
sculptures, Hirst is
prepared to remind us all
of our own mortality in
the same way that his
predecessors have in the
past."
same.
time that attitude has changed.
drawing or a painting, it can also be a scalpel to.