Tracey 'talentless' Emin at it again

This piece of junk cost the BBC 60 grand.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1424098,00.html?gusrc=rss

 

60 grand for a metal bird atop a wooden stick...

 

i think so.. good is'nt it.

 

[size=-1]Julian Treuherz, Keeper of Art Galleries for National Museums Liverpool says: “Tracey’s sculpture will bring a new dimension to an area of Liverpool already rich in great historic buildings and historical associations. I am really pleased that we have been able to help Tracey realise this imaginative and intriguing work of art.”[/size]

ok, slightly ott ..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/02/17/capculture_traceyemin_feature.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4293245.stm

 

60 grand is a bit much...but i think it's funny that the bbc have paid for it...haven't seen it until the unveiling...and it's the tiniest thing...she's obviously having a joke at their expense...but that doesn't mean she's talentless or stupid...if someone offered you 60 grand for a piece of art...wouldn't you do as little as possible? i know i would...

i hate the way everyone judges tracey emin on her previous work instead of the work she is presenting...i hate when anyone judges someones talent on what they have done previously...music, art, writing...whatever it is...she's found a way to make money and earn a living and she's taken it...regardless of what people think of her she's earning 60 grand for that little statue...

the only way i can make sense of it in my head is jealousy...people may not like what she does...but in the back of their mind they are thinking "i wish i'd done that before she did"

 

I think she's talentless because everything I've ever seen her produce has been shite. She even sounds like she's struggling for any kind of artistic interpretation of her own junk!

No, my particular dislike for Tracey Emin is based on the fact that I think she's an obnoxious, thick, ignorant gimp.

 

my kinda girl..i want too have sex with her many many times .. her tits are great ...

 

Not funny at all when you consider how the BBC is funded

 

And now she has three

 

yeah my head will be the one in the middle .. lovely

 

c'mon, I'm sure even she has some standards

 

hi.. long time no see... nope she has no standards at all...perfect , i bet she a right dirty cow.:X

 

I'm sure you'll be very happy together. Perhaps you could lie in bed (not in a gallery of course!) reading extracts from the Daily Mail to each other? Or at least looking at the pictures

 

My objection to this is not that she's getting loads of money for producing crap, since if someones going to pay for it its up to them, but the fact that its the public (or at least those with a TV licence) who have paid for it. If she'd produced it and donated it, or was displaying it in an art gallery, or some rich person had paid for it out their own money that I wouldn't see anthing wrong, although I would think that anyone paying thousands for that would be a bit of an idiot, but like I said it would be up to them. Just glad I don't have a TV licence.

 

When it comes to artists of the status of Tracey Emin, you are not just paying for the piece of work... you are paying a premium for the name associated with it... this is the way the art market works... it is worth 60 grand because some dickhead is willing to pay that much for it... Thatcherite free market policy in action... the price for her work has been inflated by an entire series of dickheads who have been willing to pay extortionate money to "own" a piece of her celebrity and infamy... and, in doing so, have only increased the worth of her celebrity and infamy so another dickhead has then bought into the idea of her... and so on and so forth...


To get into a discussion of the artistic worth of her work of something else entirely... art is such a subjective matter that is will ultimately become a slagging match of "I'm right and you're wrong, so there" banality...

Fly...

 

Money grabbing ignorant gimp. The so called 'work' is pure shite. Ditto for Damian Hurst too and 'Brit-art' in general.

 

I don't have strong views on her... she just bores me if anything...

 

Nice to see the BBC is funding art in this country, although there choices and the end Emin product is really to my taste. But it makes me think that there is some hope for my mind numbing dabbles in art.

 

That was my first reaction to this story too. I think it's incredibly valuable and important for public money to be spent in this way, I applaud it wholeheartedly. Part of the reason I do so is because it almost seems calculated to annoy so very many people for whom Emin is the symbol of everything decadent and empty about contemporary art. As such the BBC shows itself to be an entity which values ideas which emanate from the culture around it, which is precisely why we pay for it.

The price tag obviously represents a premium paid for the work of such an "important" (or at least "fashionable") establishment artist as Emin. I'm more than happy for the BBC to spend public money in such a silly, silly way. I have no strong opinions on the piece itself - but if it were a little closer to me I would certainly make an effort to go along and see it.

 

ok just on the talentless thing.....

i like emin as stated in previous post...but even for those of you who think she is talentless....she's talented enough to get someone to pay £60,000 for a piece of work. shes got it sussed when it comes to sales, even if it is only sales....talking bollocks about something to make people see it as a work of art....shes good enough to be paid shit loads of money, even if the work 'lacks talent' in itself. at the end of the day shes got tons of money and if she got tons of money through being talentless - respect