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Very true Marjorie.
Part of me thinks Emin can draw-very loosely, and much of the time on this site we talk about being looser in our drawing and painting, as something to be aimed at. Maybe we should all have a go at drawing this way and see what happens.
I don’t like her work and do think that she tries to offend and shock people, but as they say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’m sure the fact that Emin has designed the new doors will bring people flocking to see them and therefore the gallery itself.
I do like to play devils advocate!
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You make a very good point Marjorie, there is I difference in say you don’t like it and calling it rubbish
I personally don’t call anyone’s artwork rubbish no matter how much I dislike it, my simple view is that someone has created that from nothing ie a blank sheet of paper etc it come from their mind and it’s how they interpreted what they imagined.
That’s how artists have , still do and always will work , it’s her style of art but not my taste . If I had the marketing skills I would be doing the same with my artwork and I’m sure others would be say much the same about me and my work ,ohh maybe they are already . One think I have learnt over the past year running the Inspiration from Artists Thread is to look at many different types of work and accepting that even if it not to my taste and I don’t like it’s still a work of art and in there somewhere there is a good bit of artwork even if the overall work is disappointing.
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I think it fair to say that the dislike of a certain female is the result of her attitude, fame and fortune rather than her Quixotic tilts at art. We are all as we are and do the best we can and a member of society with less talent than others gets encouragement rather then disdain from their fellow artists. Controversy always occurs when someone blatantly seeks publicity by waving the red rag under the matador's (plural )noses with unmade beds, soiled underwear, piles of house bricks stacks of firewood or neon flashing lights, how can you categorise art from artful except by title? "Professor of Post-it-note indiscretions", perhaps? (-:
On with it...
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by Jim Morris
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I have to agree with Peter about this painting. I think she's got so famous she can throw out anything, I suspect people who buy it are into investments rather than art. I've read and heard that she has drawing skills, but I hope the image above isn't representative of it.A bit like the people who "invested" in car number plates - greater fool theory? It was "a thing" here for a time, haven't heard of it since Covid and then our cost of living crisis.
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A cruel tongue, that Sylvia. But unfortunately all too accurate in its comments.... The painting is without doubt a lovely thing, and Tessa has raised a point about our pensions that I hadn't really thought through .... truth to tell, I don't care all that much about stellar values unless we take the case of someone like Vincent van Gogh, who sold virtually nothing in his career and died depending on the support of his brother and others who came to his aid: his work now raises millions, if not more - despite the fact that he could only afford pigments which faded or turned brown very often, to the great detriment of his sunflower paintings.... if collectors had coughed up a bit of cash at the time, the paintings would be in better condition than they are for collectors today; which is, at least, ironic. This is why some of us say - buy art by today's artists; invest in a genuine Bickley, or Sylvia Evans, while you have the chance to do them some good! It's too late to help Klimt, Modigliani, Monet, Rénoir, van Gogh, but it's not too late to help those of us slaving in our garrets (I'm sure Alan and Sylvia have very nice garrets!) today.Spot on Robert, can't resist adding my 2 cents worth. For some years have been doing just that, buying original paintings done by local living artists, bought because I like seeing them on my walls, not worried about monetising them. Someone can do that once I'm dead.