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Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates; Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. DACS 2013Damien Hirst’s “Mickey.”People see a lot of different things when they look at a Damien Hirst spot painting.
Candy dots. Pills. And now they can conjure Mickey Mouse as well.
Mr. Hirst was asked by Disney to come up with his interpretation of the cartoon character – which will now be sold for charity.
The result is “Mickey,” household gloss on canvas, which shows a jumble of Hirst’s colored spots against a white background – including big black dot ears, a red dot mouth, and yellow dot feet.
Together, they depict a rather bouncy Mickey Mouse — a jauntiness in contrast to Mr. Hirst’s dead shark swimming in formaldehyde or his platinum human skull paved with 8,601 diamonds.
“Mickey Mouse represents happiness and the joy of being a kid and I have reduced his shape down to the basic elements of a few simple spots,” Mr. Hirst said in a statement.
The painting will be auctioned for Kids Company, a charity that helps vulnerable inner-city children and young people, at Christie’s in London on February 13.
Disney said Mr. Hirst was the latest in a line of artists to be inspired by the famous mouse, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg.
Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Europe called Mickey Mouse “an icon of cartoon and consumer culture and one of the classic designs of the twentieth century.”
Disney said there are no plans for a Hirst Donald Duck.
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