Hi Lu, Suggest you ask "the artists representatives". Sounds like THEY let the artist down - and by having "representatives" I'd say the artist let themsleves down too - so we'll never know in this urban-myth-based-on-a-fact-like example.
Always difficult to recognize art when you can't see (hear / feel) the craft / skill directly in the result - and with a lot of Tracy Emin's work - the one's that make the scandalous (marketing) headlines - that's almost non-existent, so no-one should take anyone's word for it. Having seen collections of her work - more than just the headline pieces - I'd say she does produce crafted and imaginative art - a mixture - pictures / sculptures / installations / unclassifiable, representative and abstract. And I'm just a tourist at Tate Modern - no expert. Picture hanging on a wall - no context or history ? What you see is what you get, you like it or you don't, you think it's art or you don't - if it's a joke, it might be a good one, so laugh ? So back to Tracy Emins - if you came across her unmade bed placed in front of you as "art" - you might at least ask yourself "What the **** ?" and if you were curious and paused to look at it for even a few moments asking yourself "So, why is this a piece of art then ?" I think she'd say "mission accomplished" and move on to her next project. Ian On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Louise Pryor<[email protected]> wrote: > John mentioned in another post that my dad used to run a colour separations > business in the Bay Area. He told us a story last weekend about a time when > they were doing colour seps of some famous artist. His work was crayon on > long sheets of newsprint. Long slashes of color - some of the sheets of > paper were 20 feet long, and they had them rolled up and laying on tables, > waiting to be scanned on the huge scanners. The plant manager came in one > day and freaked out because these things were apparently worth hundreds of > thousands of $$ - they had 20 or so to scan, and they had to lock them up in > the safe. One of the jokers working there started tearing off long sheets of > newsprint of his own, slashing them with crayon, then he copied the > signature and added them to the stash in the safe. When the artists > representatives came to pick up his originals they were confused by how many > there were. But just shrugged and took them all. > > So - how do you tell if that is a work of art on your wall, or just a joke? > > Lu > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
