File:Hirst-Beautiful.jpg

Summary[edit]

Beautiful revolving sphincter, oops brown painting by Damien Hirst (2003). Household gloss paint on canvas, 72" diameter.

Shown in Hirst's first museum survey, The Agony and the Ecstasy,at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in 2005.The Guardian, January 11, 2005

400 x 372 pixels, 19.3KB. Low resolution, Fair Use of image. Retrieved March 20, 2006

Fair use in Spin art[edit]

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Fair use rationale in 20th-century Western painting[edit]

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4. The image is a low resolution copy of the original work, and of such low quality that it will not affect potential sales of the art work.

Fair use in Western painting[edit]

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Fair use in Damien Hirst[edit]

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Fair use in History of painting[edit]

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