Mikayla Hardy
Elimination paper
Art 1-1:50 class
My top four choices where Damien Hirst,Van Gogh,Pablo Picasso,and Kara Walker.My
process of elimination started with Damien Hirst vs Van Gogh, but Damien Hirst became the
winner because he is internationally renowned,and is reportedly the United Kingdom’s richest
living artist, with his wealth valued at £215M in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the
1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions
came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.Death is a central theme in Hirst’s
works.[8][9] He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a
shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved in formaldehyde. The best known of these was The
