Winner of the Turner Prize

[cruella]

Did anyone see the winner of the Turner Prize this week. It was a man dressed as a bear, walking around a room for two and a half hours. Is that really art?

[paddywak]

Of course its not, poor old Turner must be spinning in his grave having his name associated with some of the rubbish they call art these days

[jno]

that was an earlier performance piece, he won the prize for something else.

[pastafreak]

I had thought he had won it for the walking bear ("Sleeper") also but it was for an installation called "State Britain" look at this: http://www.gaurdian.co.arts/gallery/2007/may/08/tu rner?picture=329813894

[loublou1971]

I thought that paint splashed onto canvas was silly, well at least for the amounts of money they charge. I did think that the Turner Prize was for the most outrageous thing they could do. I didn't realise it was serious.

[sukiv]

The guy's art is still to cheap to buy now , so hurry and invest before It skyrockets as the Turner effect takes over!

[Octavius]

In my personal opinion, no. Working down the road from Hamleys I see people walking around in various costumes, including bears, nearly every day. It seems if you give it an obscure title and have been �trained in the arts� that almost anything can be seen on one side of the fence as the remarkable work of a genius, but on the other, the crap production of a limited mind for inane self-promotion and pretentious recognition in the ambiguous myriad of the modern art world.

At best, his installation of the collected �demonstration stand� of the man who protested against the war outside parliament for a number of years and which I passed and yelled encouragement a number of times, was considered a political and artistic �coup�. In my mind, he effectively stole someone else�s work and called his own art under his name. At least some of the �25,000 prize should have gone to the man who came up with the original idea.

Turner prize is meant to get you talking about �art� and in this it succeeds. The question that always remains, year on year is what the buck IS art. It appears if you are in the art world it is something radically different to that as opined by the general population. I guess, as with our TV, it is geared towards sensationalism for attention, rather than substance.