Because She's Female!
According to BBC Scotland, Tracey Emin believes she is attacked more because she is a woman (CLICK). What an idiot! It's because she's arrogant, overvalued, overpaid and rubbish. Ms Emin, take a look at this detail from a painting by one of the world's finest living artists, Rowena Morrill, and eat your heart out. She's a woman and a genuine and brilliant artist and nobody is attacking her. Somebody please send Ms Emin a copy of The Art of Rowena by Rowena Morrill and Doris Vallejo (2000) so she may learn what true art is (CLICK for copies at Amazon.co.uk). To visit Rowena's beautiful website click the title link. And watch the graphics.
posted by Unknown @ 2.8.08
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Beautiful work - No doubt about it,
but does this type of Art make you think about existence or do you just loose yourself in its crafty illusions?
Hi, Lennard
I lose myself in its crafty illusions, if it's good enough. That's the whole point of art, whether it's a painting, a sculpture, a song, a symphony or a movie. It takes you away from humdrum existence: Is the dust thick enough for me to get the vac out? Or in Tracey Emin's case: Should I make the bed?
Art has been hijacked by people who want to get a message across. So much of it is propaganda. In western art that's traditionally Christian propaganda, but modern advertising has pushed traditional propaganda into a backwater. Now it's baked beans and new cars.
How well the message is put across is part of the art, which I can appreciate, but I don't care about the propaganda. It's the art that counts.
The relatively new notion that artists are philosophers with a gallatic reality to impart is complete cobblers. It's merely a form of snobbery designed to lift certain artists from crafsmanship status to an elite class.
Sorry, I don't buy it. But if you can find some deep meaning in a urine-soaked unmade bed littered with condoms, go for it!
Well, some fine reflexions on the subject.
personally I always had a soft spot for "Brit art" - It was still "no craft" conceptualism but they added some off beat humor to it, making it less stuffy and academic.
Maybe it was just that they were the same age as me, hung out with rock stars and made millions that attracted me...
I was never quite sure what Brit Art was, and I'm still not. I think it was a mixture of psychodelia and punk. Like bell-bottom trousers, most of it looked silly when the fashion died out, but some great LP (Long Player record) covers were produced at that time. Did the advent of CDs kill Brit Art? Did it just fizzle out? Or did it simply get boring?
It was rebellious and stuck two fingers up, which seemed great at the time. Banksy and cartoonists seem to be the only ones doing that at present. The trouble is, if they hang around for long enough, like Gerald Scarfe, they get knighted or receive OBEs or something and are absorbed into the Establishment!
Well, it's always been hard making a living from saying "fuck you all!"
(except if you are a stand-up comedian), I suppose most artists would welcome an invitation to join the establishment and get rich...maybe it's all down to the increasing lack of cheap slum housing and un-skilled jobs in the Western world?...
Rebellion ain't what it used to be!
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