Damien Hirst

Forever is a newly released limited edition print that features bright, abstract details from Damien Hirst’s new series of Cherry Blossom paintings. Depicting blossom trees in full bloom, the series is inspired by the work of Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh and the Pointillist innovations of Georges Seurat. The print shows close-up details of the densely altered and colorful dabs of paint from the sections of the large-scale canvases.

The Cherry Blossom paintings were recently the subject of Damien Hirst’s first museum exhibition in France, at the Foundation Cartier. The catalogue explains that “The series reinterprets, 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 colours, envelope the viewer in a vast floral landscape moving between figuration and abstraction. The Cherry Blossoms are at once a subversion and homage to the great artistic movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are integral to the pictorial exploration long carried out by Hirst.”