Anatomy of an Angel, 2008
Anatomy of an Angel at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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Anatomy of an Angel

2008

Carrara marble, a sculpture that blurs lines between the classical and the scientific.

 

Questions

What connotations does the angelic form communicate?

The artist uses the classical pose to what purpose?

 

Back in the classroom. 

What does the artist communicate to the audience through this dissection?

Why are we encouraged to look beneath?

Wretched War – The Dream is Dead

2007

Bronze, a statue of a pregnant woman that has been decapitated.

 

Questions

What has happened to this piece?

A statement is being made but about what and why?

 

Back in the classroom. 

What effect does the decapitation of this piece have?

Wretched War – The Dream is Dead at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Wretched War – The Dream is Dead at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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Observe, Identify, Reason, Analyse, Measure, Modify and Reproduce, 2000
Observe, Identify, Reason, Analyse, Measure, Modify and Reproduce at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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Observe, Identify, Reason, Analyse, Measure, Modify and Reproduce

2000

Glass, stainless steel, steel, brass, silicone rubber, air blowers and plastic balls, a sculpture that encases white balls being blown by an air pump.

Questions

How does the artist engage with the audience through this kinetic sculpture?

What emotional changes occur between stillness and movement?

What might be the reason for siting this sculpture in this room?

Space, Time, Form, Matter, Substance, Change and Motion

2000

Glass, stainless steel, steel, brass, silicone rubber, air blowers and plastic balls, a sculpture that encases coloured balls being blown by an air pump.

Questions

How does this piece relate to the Colour Space Paintings?

Back in the classroom. 

What does the viewer gain from being able to see the inner workings of these sculptures?

When you remember this work how do you picture it?

Space, Time, Form, Matter, Substance, Change and Motion, 2000
Space, Time, Form, Matter, Substance, Change and Motion at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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Death or Glory, 2001
Death or Glory at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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Death or Glory

2001

Glass, steel, aluminium, skull, rubber tubing, compressors, ping-pong balls, paper and ink.

Questions

A skull references death, what do the plastic eyeballs reference?

What is the glass forcing the viewer to do?

How does Hirst integrate his views on death within this piece?

What Goes Up Must Come Down

1994

Plexiglass, hairdryer and ping -pong ball, a sculpture that produces the effect of a ball floating in mid-air.

Questions

How can the unseen be viewed as an essential part of this artwork?

What could the plastic ball be reference to in this work?

Back in the classroom. 

Hirst references scientific research throughout his work, create a piece to complement this series?
 

What Goes Up Must Come Down, 1994
What Goes Up Must Come Down at Houghton Hall, Norfolk
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