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Alan Bickley

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I like it! I’m not going into the reasons, let’s just say that we all view and interpret art differently! I’m not interested in a photographic interpretation, this definitely isn’t that in any way… stating the obvious here… And no, the bed was pure garbage… I didn’t read the article in the Guardian, nor will I because it isn’t my political bias, but they’re also entitled to their opinions… good, bad or indifferent!

Sylvia Evans

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You are right Alan Tis up to the individual  but her name is like a red rag to a bull for me.    So yes each to their own    I also heard an interview  with her , needless to say I wasn’t impressed.   
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Peter Smith

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The point is though Alan that he didn't say 'I think this is the best thing since sliced bread', he said 'this is the best thing since sliced bread'. The difference is important.
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Marjorie Firth

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Peter, he’s an art critic, that’s his job. I think we know that it’s his “ opinion” and we can disagree without getting worked up about it. He also sees art “ in the flesh” which is very different from seeing it “ second hand”. It may make an impression, who knows? We certainly don’t, we haven’t seen it ( or perhaps you have?).

Martin Shaw

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I quite like it. It has a good feel
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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It's one of the best things she's done in this particular discipline - of course, she works in others, and in the others she doesn't generally do anything for me; though I quite liked her bronze doors.  I read Jonathan Jones' article - he's a man with whom I've often disagreed; he wrote an article on Maggie Hambling which went beyond art criticism into a vengeful rant.  But I agree with Marjorie and Denise that he's a critic; that's his job - the Hambling article was unprofessional, bad criticism, bad journalism; but it was an exception.   The Jesus piece has impact, is well composed, and very sorry chaps, but I like it, and agree with Alan and Martin - she will always divide opinion, I suspect.

Sylvia Evans

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The world would be so boring if we all agreed……..
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Peter Smith

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True, and it's been an interesting discussion. One more question....does the world really need yet another painting of that particular subject, regardless of who does it?

Tessa Gwynne

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Does the world NEED another painting of anything? Actually yes it does.  I don’t have a problem with this piece of artwork.  I am not an Emin fan.  Interesting and as Sylvia says thankfully we can agree to disagree!

Norrette Moore

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I usually try to check on an artists early work to understand why their later work is rated highly. Obvious examples are that of Picasso, Hockney etc. Sort of...they've proved they can paint, now they have latitude to experiment. I couldn't find much of Emin's work that offers that proof to me. However, I do like her as a representative of modern women artists. What I did find in my Google search, was this! https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/23/tracey-emin-unseen-paintings-bed-margate-first-time Where our J.J. is credited at the bottom with a book about the lady herself...
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Russell Edwards

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Well she has come a long way hasn't she since those early daubs! 'You can fool all of the people some of the time ...... etc.'
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Yes, well - she was in the right place, met the right people, had a lot of determination, made a lot of money.  Art DOES polarize - it always has, it always will unless AI swamps every individual voice and vision in a sea of tat: I don't get annoyed with Emin - much - because I see so many credulous admirers of what are obviously AI images (rarely here): I'm increasingly avoiding Facebook, because this rubbish is all over it, invading what were once interesting pages with their "van Goghs" and other grossly misrepresented artists; I can put up with anything avant garde - if it's any good it'll endure, if it isn't it won't - but people need to stop showering praise on stuff that looks initially bright and cheerful until you take a really good look at it.   In short: let us hold fire on actual artists, whether we like and appreciate them or not, and concentrate on the real threat to artists of all kinds everywhere, which is the march of AI - posterity, the process of time, will take care of the rest. 
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