Tracey Emin

[hellywelly4]

Tracey Emin has been made a dame. I just don't know what to say.  Anyone else have an opinion? 

[sandyRoe]

Her name will always be associated with the unmade bed.

What other work has she done?

[Peter Pedant]

she has er made her bed and must lie in it

[Ellipsis]

Here's one of her most public ones ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/art/2018/04/10/TELEMMGLPICT000159988119_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqTCCX6TN09Wsw953wy5SsXthC1is0rrp-PSgpUfsOYQU.jpeg

[Smowball]

What's it meant to show??

[Ellipsis]

It's at St Pancras train station, a famous meeting and departing point ...

[Smowball]

Ohhh lol

[Maydup]

The idea of Dame Tracey Emin is absolutely, but fabulously absurd! You couldn't write it. 

[Smowball]

AbFab lol

[Khandro]

It is important to separate the artworks of her and many of her contemporaries from artworks which are judged and appreciated solely for their aesthetic value and significance.

Her bed is of course intrinsically rubbish, but has become in some bizarre way a famous object from the British modern art 'scene' and so has become iconic, and as such accrued monetary value. 

Try to compare it not with say one of Monet's water lily paintings but with a signed and worn football shirt of Maradona, an item which would have infinitely more value (to some)  than its actual value were it not for its association.

 

I could write an essay but it's the wrong place & the wrong time, night night. :0)

  

[Smowball]

Night  night lol

[jno]

I liked Emin's tent a lot, and the unmade bed; the rest not so much.

[10ClarionSt]

I suppose it comes down to the age old question: What is art? My answer to that is that art is something that pleases it's creator. Others probably have a different view.

[Khandro]

She got the gong, not really for her artwork, but for service to the community.  She founded an art-centre in Margate (her home town I believe) which has brought many visitors to this, what was a rather depressed resort. 

[hellywelly4]

I didn't know about her raising money for charity.  That does make a difference. 

[sp1814]

Makes perfect sense. Like Vivienne Westwood - a true British icon. As a contempoary artist she's not my favourite, but it made me grin to see her enobled. 

Round of appluase.

[douglas9401]

I suppose 'dame' is appropriate as part of the pantomime.