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For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. [1]
The term "yBa" was already used in 1994 [8] and later used by Simon Ford in a feature "Myth Making" in March 1996 in Art Monthly magazine. [17] Art dealer Jay Jopling began to represent YBAs Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and Sam Taylor-Wood, whom he married in 1998.
Brachycephaly (derived from the Ancient Greek βραχύς, 'short' and κεφαλή, 'head') is the shape of a skull shorter than average in its species.It is perceived as a cosmetically desirable trait in some domesticated dog and cat breeds, notably the pug and Persian, and can be normal or abnormal in other animal species.
YBA or yba can refer to a number of things: Young British Artists, a movement of British artists in the 1980s and 1990s; Yala language, a language spoken in Ogoja, Nigeria, by ISO 639 code; Young Buddhist Association, an association of Buddhists in the U.S. Banff Airport, an airstrip near Banff, Alberta, Canada, by IATA code
Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head binding is a form of body alteration in which the skull of a human being is deformed intentionally. It is done by distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying pressure.
Body piercing – permanent placement of jewelry through an artificial fistula; sometimes further modified by stretching; Ear piercing – the most common type of body modification
An infant would be bound between padded boards to cause a tabular effect in the growth of the skull. Another method was to wind a band tightly around the head for an annular effect. Both of these methods produced an elongated shape of the head. [ 2 ]
Skeletor (/ ˈ s k ɛ l ə t ɔːr /) is a fictional supervillain and the main antagonist of the Masters of the Universe franchise created by Mattel, serving as the archenemy of He-Man and usually depicted as a skull-faced, blue-skinned sorcerer.