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I so agree Helen. How sad that the art buying public are being conned into thiis rubbish., I’m sure they know this picture is a con by an untalented/ unethical person , it shows what whitewash( @and marketing can do. When bought will the buyer sit in awe and admiration ,or will it go into a vault as an “ investment”? .personally I hope a very deep and dark vault.
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Omg eight deep dark vaults …there was a TV prog some years ago …too old to remember title but it was about a bunch of art students on a mission to be “ adopted “ ,Saatchi @nd Saatchi It was a reality show. These student# were put in@ life drawing class ,not one of th3m could draw the model.
Saying that my G Daughter has just got a first class honours degree in fine art . I went to the final exhibition…with Sam. And was quite taken aback with the exhibits. She can draw , she can paint I have taken her to life groups . Her talent is amazing. So somewhere it’s the tutors suppressing their talent. I did keep very quiet and praised her work. This is Sam at the exhibition a tad bemused with the exhibit. 
My granddaughter, painted this as part of her GCSE work. I think the expression says everything that we’re all thinking. I find it sad that art is judged by a name, not the work.
I love Sam’s expression, Sylvia.
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Emin is a professional artist (this does not imply praise) who early on dedicated herself to the cause of self-advancement, a degree of self-expression, and making money from both. She has been phenomenally successful in this. She does, in short, what she does, and for her own reasons.
It wouldn't surprise me in any way if art schools impressed her example on their students, since their job is to advance their careers. I'm not at all sure that this is all that art schools, colleges etc ought to be doing - but that's the merry-go-round that is the art market. Collectors who are really investors, auction houses that bid up the most commercial work until it reaches absurd proportions, dealers who do the same, tutors who encourage their students not only to produce sellable work but how to write a lengthy treatise devoid of concrete meaning as an 'artist's statement'. A 'mysterious' - in fact generally vapid - title for the work helps, too (as above). It's supposed to be deep - invariably, a better word would be 'dense'.
Even so, this is just surface froth - typical of the age we're living in, in which core values have come to be disregarded, or in which confidence in them has been lost. In that sense, I suppose you could say that Emin represents the Zeitgeist - and at the same time, all that many of us deplore in the current direction of art. Currents change, though - I wish Emin no ill, but it would amuse me considerably if those who have invested in her work saw the value of their investment plummet right through the floor in years to come.
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You mentioned art collages, Robert. My granddaughter (Lily) is in her second year at art college, she has told me they have studied works by Tracey Emin, along with Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville, the original member of the Young British Artists.
This year they are concentrating on portraits, hence studying Emin, Bacon and Saville. Lily is only young, just 17. However, she does have strong opinions.
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by Ellen Mooney
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Great painting from your granddaughter Sylvia. Robert has written far more eloquently than me and I certainly agree with his sentiments, particularly with his last para. Touch of the emperor's new clothes I think. Having said that I really like a lot of modern artists portraiture work so am not entirely bereft of admiring the new!