The whimsical chaos that comes with the season of cherry tree blooms is captured in Damien Hirst’s first-ever museum exhibition in France, “Cherry Blossoms.” On view through January 2, 2022 at Fondation Cartier, the artist considered the flower as a representation of beauty and life and death before taking to canvases of monumental size to litter them in dense clusters of bright pinks and greens. The series totals 107 canvases that were three years in the making, and the product of an evolution which began with works inspired by Abstract Expressionism, like Hirst’s 1986 Spot Paintings.