Damien Hirst – The Beautiful Paintings

The Beautiful Paintings, the revolutionary new artwork from Damien Hirst that blurs the boundaries between digital and physical art creation using generative and machine learning algorithms.

Marking the newest iteration of Hirst’s iconic Spin Paintings, known for their energetic splashes of colour, The Beautiful Paintings gives collectors the opportunity to choose their own combination of colours, styles, shapes, sizes, and mediums to generate unique artworks and titles.

Using The Beautiful Paintings dashboard, Hirst gives collectors the opportunity to choose their own combination of colours, styles, shapes, sizes, and mediums to generate artworks and titles. Although collectors can select these variables, the final output always has an element of randomness, just as in past Spin Paintings. Each artwork in this series will be unique.

Collectors can choose from countless combinations of colours to create their own palette. The expressive colour names themselves were generated using machine learning, including names like Himalayan Waters, Interdimensional Cloud and Tangerine Pine.

The Beautiful Paintings dashboard features 25 different artwork styles to choose from. The wide variety of styles shows the unexpected movements, paint splatters, and colour interactions of his traditional Spin Paintings, but also explores new directions that build on his previous body of work.

The optional ‘Blur’ functionality can be applied in combination with any style to emphasise the motion of different paint splashes radiating out from the centre of the canvas as it spins. Collectors can also select the canvas shape of their generated artwork. Works can be produced in a square or circular format, two of the most common shapes already used by Hirst in his Spin Paintings series, each of which are available in four different sizes.

Finally, machine learning is used to create playfully long and descriptive titles, which follow the existing naming convention for Spin Paintings. The titles start with the word ‘Beautiful’, end in ‘Painting’ and reference the chosen style. Collectors can choose to regenerate a new title for the same artwork.


Medium: Giclée print on poly-cotton artist canvas mounted on a birch plywood stretcher
Date: 2023
Dimensions: 100 (Diameter)
Edition: 1,463
Sign: Hand-signed