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WOW proof! are in particular written for suffering readers. paintings could be a portray, a drawing, a sculpture, virtually something. it will possibly cling on a wall in a gallery or it might probably stand on best of a hill. learn about a few of Britain's best-known glossy artists and be encouraged by means of a few of their outstanding artistic endeavors.
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It shocked the art world by selling for £111 million, breaking all records for an art sale. He is also responsible for the world’s most expensive piece of art, For the Love of God. It is a platinum cast of a human skull, covered with more than 8,000 diamonds, and has real human teeth. It is worth £50,000,000. Like Anish Kapoor, Hirst also played a part in the London 2012 Olympic Games by creating a British Union Jack flag as a centrepiece in the closing ceremony. Polly Morgan never thought of becoming an artist.
Another one of her works, Embankment, filled the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. This time, she had taken casts of the insides of cardboard boxes. Damien Hirst may be the most recognised British artist working today. He is known for making art that can be seen as shocking. He is Britain’s richest living artist and is said to be worth £215 million. He was born in Bristol but grew up in Leeds. He did not do very well at school and was often in trouble. He saw art as a way of expressing himself. For one of his most famous works he placed a four metre long dead shark in a glass tank and kept it in a liquid that stopped it from rotting.
Almost all of Gormley’s work is based on the human body. He often uses casts taken from his own body to make the pieces. The figures are made from materials that can withstand being outside in all weathers. In 1998, a work called Another Place was installed at Crosby Beach, near Liverpool. Gormley’s figures stand in different places up and down the beach, looking out at the horizon. The sea even comes in around some of the figures and they can be seen standing out of the sea. Again, like The Angel of the North, many of these figures were dressed up by local people and the public grew to love the artwork on show.