I wanted to bring up artist Damien Hirst because he is the richest artist in the world with a net worth of over $300 million and has some high brow art that reminds me of DADA. Kind of like the readymades of Duchamp, Hirst takes things from nature and turns them into art. He uses the corpses of animals and puts them into tanks filled with formaldehyde among other forms of more contemporary art, like a diamond incrusted skull. In 1988 Hirst debuted his rolling exhibition called Freeze with friends from Goldsmith College in London. They focused on disturbing the art world like the DADA movement and surrealism did in the earlier parts of the century. In 1991 Hirst really disturbed the art world by showing The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living which was a 14 foot tiger sharked suspended in formaldehyde:
He continued his work with dead animals in his exhibit called Natural History Series, where similarly to the shark, he put cows, sheep, horses, zebras and even unicorns into a formaldehyde box. Sometimes these animals would be split in half or cut up where people could see the insides of them. His art is revolutionary and is the new Readymade.
