There are also big, brightly colored, machine-made spin paintings that rotate, and grids of painted multicolored dots, all of which Mr. Hirst has done before.

A sparkling small gouache harbor scene by the Impressionist Arthur Melville in which water and boats are abstracted into multicolored dots and dashes reflects his focus on optical perception and evokes a world made of logically behaving elementary particles.

The air was full of multicolored dots, all going up into the stratosphere.

While most of the work was scrubbed off or painted over, surviving only in photographs, the show's subway-car door by Michael Tracy, with abstract multicolored dots bubbling up, offers a close-up glimpse of an artist's elaborate effort.

Reinforcing the sense of deja vu are all-over images of multicolored dots impastoed on paper and on two irregularly shaped boards.

Bloomingdale's offers silk scarfs printed with multicolored dots ($65) or Christmas tree ornaments ($54).

She toggled something on her board and the equation rippled off the monitor screen, replaced a moment later by an ice-white curve and a matching scatter of multicolored dots.

It showed a map of Japan, many of whose cities were marked with multicolored dots.

Hundreds of feet tall, it stood against the western edge of the blunt cliff-face: a spinning chiaroscuro of multicolored dots like the phosphene aura of a migraine.

But they form only part of a large body of diverse work - paintings of multicolored dots; cabinets filled with medical equipment; sculptures in which commonplace objects are displayed in skewed or gravity defying ways - that all has to do with, Hirst observes, people's "blanket refusal to accept decay."