Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel. 
120 x 96 cm. 
2021. 
Edition of 1067. 
From The Virtues series.
Mint condition in its original packaging.
 
Loyalty to a superior was the most distinctive virtue during feudalism. Inazō Nitobe asserts that bushidō Loyalty is unlike its Western counterparts in that the interest of the family and its members are one and the same. Bushidō also conceives of the state as existing before the individual and therefore the individual is born to the state. As such, he exists to live and die for the state or ‘the incumbent of its legitimate authority’.
 
Damien Hirst (born 1965) rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his striking works of art. He was a key member of the Young British Artists, won the Turner Prize in 1995 and challenges perceptions and the limits of art. Hirst has also challenged the art market; in 2008 he held an auction with Sotheby’s and sold over 200 pieces of his work direct to the public by bypassing galleries, earning £111 million. He explores themes of life, death and religion, and has created thought provoking artworks including various animals in formaldehyde and For The Love Of God, a diamond encrusted human skull with 8,601 diamonds.