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RE: What TV show did you last watch?
(26-07-2022 20:40 )hornball Wrote: SKY ARTS - Mad Tracey from Margate
As you might imagine, this is an intimate, although not brand new, portrait of the life of Tracey Emin! Yes it featured that infamous piece 'unmade bed' which made her name (still highly questionable as an artwork in my view), but also in fairness to her, highlighted the relatively broad areas of 'real' art she excelled in - not least her sketches - which, it was said, actually showed her inability as an artist. I actually think that it features some of her best work, and for what it is worth, has a greater level of 'legitimacy' than is the case with Banksy.
Nobody questions that seeking to shock - too simplistic in describing Emin's work I believe - is perfectly legitimate. It is the creative merit that I question most, like Eugenie Scrase and the impaled tree trunk on railings that she had the cheek to put 'on show' some years ago for a competition run by C Sattchi! I recall actually that it was T Emin who described it as 'Genius' If you haven't seen it look it up.
Caught up with this at last - possibly one of the most charmless and talentless people to walk the Earth. I might go so far as to describe her as the Lori Buckby of modern art, but that might be a bit too harsh (on one of them).
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RE: What TV show did you last watch?
(31-12-2022 15:28 )Doddle Wrote: (26-07-2022 20:40 )hornball Wrote: SKY ARTS - Mad Tracey from Margate
As you might imagine, this is an intimate, although not brand new, portrait of the life of Tracey Emin! Yes it featured that infamous piece 'unmade bed' which made her name (still highly questionable as an artwork in my view), but also in fairness to her, highlighted the relatively broad areas of 'real' art she excelled in - not least her sketches - which, it was said, actually showed her inability as an artist. I actually think that it features some of her best work, and for what it is worth, has a greater level of 'legitimacy' than is the case with Banksy.
Nobody questions that seeking to shock - too simplistic in describing Emin's work I believe - is perfectly legitimate. It is the creative merit that I question most, like Eugenie Scrase and the impaled tree trunk on railings that she had the cheek to put 'on show' some years ago for a competition run by C Sattchi! I recall actually that it was T Emin who described it as 'Genius' If you haven't seen it look it up.
Caught up with this at last - possibly one of the most charmless and talentless people to walk the Earth. I might go so far as to describe her as the Lori Buckby of modern art, but that might be a bit too harsh (on one of them).
Charmless...Talentless?? Surely not!! Yes she is hysterical at times on the mic, but not charmless........and, compared to some others who get lauded on this platform as 'leaders' of the night shows in terms of their 'performance', way ahead!
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