Damien Hirst spent about $20 million on putting 8,601 diamonds into platinum cast of a skull from an actual person. He was European and lived between 1720 and 1810. On this artwork his teeth are still showing, but the rest of him is covered with numerous of diamonds."I wouldn't mind if it happened to my skull after my death." - said Damien Hirst
A lot of people talks strongly about it, negatively or positively, but that's part of the job of an artist; to make people think or look at things in a different way. So, in the responses that it has provoked, it succeeds as a work of art.
Hirst's diamond skull is on the market for about $100 million, which will be a good return on the artist's investment as he spent about $20 million on putting the thing together. That's an $80 million dollar idea!
