Love and art

Mothers Love

Damien Hirst - For the love of God

 Damien Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is the most know for being a member of the group known as the Young British Artists.
Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected.

The sculpture 'For the love of God' consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. The skull's teeth are original, and were purchased by Hirst in London.


Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic is an Yugoslavia-born controversial performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades, Abramović describes herself as the "grandmother of performance art." She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body.

For one her projects Marina would sit at a table with another empty chair opposite. Any one could then go and sit opposite her and she would just look at the other person for 1 minute. That person then would somehow gain and show different emotions such as sadness.