Artist: Damien Hirst (English, Born 1965)
Title: End Game
Date: 2000-2004
Materials: Glass, Stainless steel, human skeletons, and medical equipment
Size: 77 x 148 x 20
I really enjoyed my day at the museum. The talents of many artists were very fascinating. On my trip there many displays caught my eye and had me amazed. But this one piece in particular. Yes at first I saw it as a simple display. Ive never been in a surgery room, but I imagine this is what it would look like from what people I know describe it as. When I first saw it I thought to myself am I still at the MFA? and then I began to look for the title. The display of art was very detailed. It showed all sorts of surgical instruments. I had to stare at it and think if the display was abstract, representational, or nonrepresentational and when I finally decided I thought due to the title it was representational. The human skeletons were at one point the body, the life, to a certain individual. From the looks of the skeletons it shows one male and one female. With the title and the 2 bodies I thought about how life isnt always guaranteed tomorrow. Like when we all get sick we tend to run to hospitals but in the end no matter how many instruments the scientific world uses, if its the end of the game for you then thats where you will end.
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