Chicken
1999
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on Somerset wove paper
Dimensions
image: 149.38 × 78.42 cm (58 13/16 × 30 7/8 in.) sheet: 153.67 × 101.44 cm (60 1/2 × 39 15/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington, DC)
Accession Number
2015.19.3221.7
Art Historical Context
Damien Hirst'sChicken* (1999) is a striking color screen that exemplifies the provocative spirit the Young British Artists (YBA) movement of which Hirst was leading figure. Born in1965, Hirst gained international notoriety in 1990s for his bold explorations of, death, and consumerism often using animals in preserved or forms to confront viewers with mortality's raw. This large-scale work, measuring nearly 150 x 78 cm in its image area, features the titular bird rendered in vivid hues on luxurious Somerset wove paper, a mundane subject into a meditation on fragility and vitality. Printed using...