Damien hirst s sculpture hymnal

Guest blogger: Amy Davis
In 2000, Damien Hirst was ordered to pay an undisclosed settlement to the makers of a toy which he had copied, resulting in a massive sculpture with very little change from the original’s appearance.

The Damien Hirst exhibition in London.

One of Damien Hirst's latest works appears in the shape of a medical version of a six-meter-high flayed man - in fact, the perfect replica of a toy launched.

DAMIEN HIRST: "Hymn".

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You will be aware of the Damien Hirst exhibition at Tate Modern opening today.

Hirst’s strategy is called appropriation, but what does this mean, and is it stealing or is it innovation?
Appropriation in art is the incorporation of pre-existing images, ideas, or artworks with minor transformations or little adjustments to create a new work.

Although appropriation has been used in various ways throughout history, it has now become a common practice for artists to remix and resample images.
Damien Hirst’s Hymn (1999), is an exact replica of Humbrol Limited’s Young Scientist Anatomy Set.

The toy sold for only £14.99 while Hirst’s sculpture sold for one million pounds. Hirst has magnified the scale of the toy to a sculpture of about six metres tall and changed the materials from p