Artist Damien Hirst showers cherry blossoms over Paris

Damien Hirst presents a series of 30 paintings at his first museum exhibition in France at Foundation Cartier. Cherry Blossoms, Hirst's series, is a blend of Impressionism and Pointillism styles of painting. (Photo: AP)

According to Foundation Cartier, Hirst enjoyed making the series. He not only felt good making it but also liked completely being lost in colour and paint in his studio. This series, for Hirst, was an attempt towards imaginary mechanical painting and away from minimalism. (Photo: AP)

Born in Briston, UK, Hirst grew up in Leeds and eventually moved to live in London. In many of his collections, including the Cherry Blossoms series, 56-year-old Hirst dives into the themes attached to life and death. (Photo: AP)

Working on the series for about 3 years, Hirst finished a total of 107 canvases in November last year. He, along with Foundation Cartier General Director Hervé Chandès, chose the on-display 30 paintings. (Photo: AP)

Talking about Cherry blossoms, according to Foundation Cartier, Hirst says, "They’re about desire and how we process the things around us and what we turn them into, but also about the insane visual transience of beauty—a tree in full crazy blossom against a clear sky." (Photo: AP)

Using bright colours and creating a floral landscape, Hirst describes his Cherry Blossoms series as 'extreme', 'twisted by love', 'decorative' and 'messy and fragile', as per Foundation Cartier. (Photo: AP)

The British artist initially began working on the series with an idea of the cycle of rebirth. Out of 30, two of the artist's paintings have a direct reference to Japan and how in spring Japanese get together and cherish the Cherry Blossoms. (Photo: AP)

Hirst adores dots as a pattern of painting. This can not just be seen in the Cherry Blossoms collection, where he has used dots to represent flowers, but also Hirst has used a hint of dots in several of his paintings over the past years. (Photo: AP)

Hirst has made a documentary with Foundation Cartier while creating the Cherry Blossoms series. The documentary, set to launch in the end of July, would show Hirst talking about idea, how he created his paintings and the series in all. (Photo: AP)