Tracey Emin - Tent - Everyone I have ever slept with

[midnightcowgirl7272]

all these fellas she shaged must be blind right, she is a dog,no sorry if i had a dog that looked like her i would have the poor thing put to sleep.

[TheZoobearz]

This is shite. People think this is art.. eminent must be laughing all the way to the bank at you mugs

[TheAndrew633]

Shes just got a new Job..............Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy!!! Cant be that bad then!

[Flowmotion1000]

I'm tired of that old chestnut about Van Gogh and Beethoven etc not being understood in their own time.Is this meant to somehow vindicate anyone that is obviously not that good?

[bordereye]

@Flowmotion1000 I totally agree. By the way, great painters held Van Gogh in high esteem, and who criticised him never considered him cynical, greedy or talentless. Even Michelangelo was attacked by some of his contemporaries, but nobody ever said he wasn't a serious painter! Please, let's not compare these giants with the likes of Tracy Emin.

[tadhgmccabe]

@Flowmotion1000 I totally agree with you. As to Manet and Van Gogh, they built on the great traditions of art and extended the boundaries of expression in original and exciting ways. Contemporary art, very specifically, in the person of Duchamp, set out to destroy and eliminate the idea of Art. The idiots that followed, thought he was making a new art and duly took refuge in an 'Art Form' that has no standards and no way to gage whether it is good or bad.

[TheForza1000]

Emin is a chancer ..a rich chancer...

The futurist movement was controversial in the early 20 century and inspired a generation...Emin's talentless bs does the exact opposite...

People who buy this junk deserve to lose their money....

[ColeFried81]

DANG 1:32 0.o

Look at those things!

[BrisbaneGoFish]

She made a shitload of cash.

Frankly I never caught on to her art, maybe I had not fucked enough people at the time..

[colinclarke1000]

My ex girlfriend had a tent with all the names of blokes she'd been with....but billy smarts circus wanted thier big top back!

[tescocadaver]

Jodie Marsh missed her period!!!!!!!!!

[philipdarby5]

her tits have more talent than her

[bille77]

tracey = terrible

[nanacalisa]

i like her work

[Rik274]

In a recent article, Lynn Barber made a fool of herself by saying that Tracey Emin should be made a dame. Whatever next - Dame Katie Price? I almost felt like writing to the pope and suggesting that he should canonise Jade Goody.

[ALEKHINE1927]

Tracy Emin demonstrates that any shit can pass for art...

[jackinla8]

self-masturbation on public display

[MrsJosephMerrick]

In a word: CRAP. And, well, crap......There are better artists out there who deserve some recognition...Her socalled art is just what art is these days, its all about. Money, and who you know, and basically pretentious bollocks...and no talent, except to have a big mouth. Sorry, rant over. And did I mention she cant draw??I still think thats important, through being able to draw properly,or at least reasonably well, your can expressive yourself truly.

[toomuchluggage]

@MrsJosephMerrick It's ironic then, given you've chosen to communicate your feelings through writing, that you can't spell, punctuate or structure a paragraph properly.

[MrsJosephMerrick]

@toomuchluggage I most certainly CAN write correctly - but my gander was up, and I was having a rant...And what the hell has that got to do anyway with the fact that this woman is a pretentious baggage?

[toomuchluggage]

@MrsJosephMerrick Well, you were having a go at Emin for not being able to draw. You said you thought that was important, which is fair enough: craft skills are important in artistic expression.

Me, I care about the craft of written expression. I just thought it was funny that your comment - which criticised someone on the basis of their craft skills - was itself poorly crafted.

I mean, 'your can expressive yourself truly'? There is so much that is wrong with that sequence of words.

[MrsJosephMerrick]

@toomuchluggage Poorly crafted? - or just creative? Its deliberate emphasis on my part. :)

[MrsJosephMerrick]

@toomuchluggage Ooop! I just reread the orig comment I made - THAT WAS A TYPO!!!!!I thought you were referring to the order of words! Do you honestly thing think Id write expressive in that sentence???Im always doing that, never check myself.

[figbat1]

see damien hirst.

[Andrew279144]

Modern Art = "I could have done that" + "Yeah, but you didn't" = "Why should anyone give a shit?"

Me, me, me, myself and I + me, me, me.......

What a load of pretentious, self-interested, crap.

[lesterclaypool1]

That self satisfied smirk that's always on her face says all that you need to know about this woman.

[MSXXY69]

I think the tent is a great work of art. It makes you think about the moments in your life that were filled with love and closeness to another human being. What deeper purpose could an artwork possibly have? Not all her work is great, but this tent alone is a great idea and just watching this really touched me. There is an arrogance, ignorance and apathy towards modern art which I find very irritating. If you are frustrated with it, feel free to buy a canvas and try to be the next Da Vinci.

[BearGryllsChills]

Im openeing my own Exhibition at the Tate Modern this weekend!

It involves Tracey Emin artworks and a blowtorch!

[thenobody1234]

im so in love with her work.

[KnockoffNigeI]

Good is where you find it, this kind of self consciously arty stuff i call Institutional High Art. Its supported and propagated by individuals and institutions that are seeking ennoblement, they're looking for something special, something that has value. That's why it has to be priced far beyond its material worth, the money is symbolic of the value they hope to attain. They remind me of the faithful giving money to the cynical money changes to offer up a burnt offering in the temple.

[NotNamedJones]

I actually love modern art, but I think the problem (and Emin is part of this) is that the serious art establishment now values gimmicks and "fresh" ideas over basic quality. Modern art from its beginnings with impressionism up to the 1970s always had a sincerity in which the artist took a valid idea and learned to articulate it, which I think is the definition of good art. The more contemporary stuff (YBAs) is way too much about shock value.

[thequantumcollapse]

@NotNamedJones The problem is that the focus of Art has shifted from being an expression and embodiment of humanity, to a purely commercial exploit of the zeitgeist of the moment. Even the god of the YBAs himself, Damien Hirst, said that his work (and the contemporary art scene in general) is all about marketing, and that meaning and aesthetics are secondary. With this kind of weird--if not downright faulty--logic as the driving force, it's no wonder a lot of so-called modern 'art' is such crap.

[ortonomics]

This woman's feeble half-hearted and thoughtless concepts embody everything miserably inbred and self-loathing about modern art. Dystopian postmodernism is driving modern society off the ledge. Pathetic.

[SuperBananafication1]

By slept with it doesn't neccessarily mean sexual. I think she's cleverly played on societies hypocracy. It was their curiosity and interest in sex that caused them to take interest in this, like it caused you haters to view this video. The same people who judge her for the work are the same people who jumped straight to perversion and assumed sex. They're just as bad as her. We all are deep down. Just she has the bal;ls to do it.

[claymars]

sloaches humanoid sloaches

[kingdomofdalriada]

TRACY EMIN - Please make some art by severely harming yourself.

[sail1948]

Artistically bankrupt rubbish. A dog turd in a frame would have more credibility as art.

[mahound9]

Has anyone caught that moment at 1:02, when the woman looking at the tent realizes that she has a huge whale-tail on display?

[LEOSAYSAYS]

wow...I'm not the biggest Emin fan, but some of these comments are awful

[MIDJOBZ]

I think she was a prostitute in her past, look how fucking messed up this woman is!

[MIDJOBZ]

Tracey emin as an artist has probably been badly critisised in the whole history of art... Im suspicious that she just knew an idiot that let her in the art career and destroy art for the world... piss off you shit bitch money robbing slag,,, her personality reminds me of mr burns in the simpsons.

[loolfactorie]

What a cunt.

[mongreleye]

she was in the right place at the right time with the right backers. same as damien hirst not a good artist at all.... a good buissines person. just an old slapper

[mrmrscosanostra]

so..basically, she's a slag?.

[ohbiggles]

@mrmrscosanostra no.

[MIDJOBZ]

Fuck off you silly bone idol bitch, everyone knows that she made it through a couple of celebrity contacts. Talentless working class scum bag who is pretending to be elite, no matter how much money she has you cant buy class or talent

[mikeymana]

@MIDJOBZ i agree she has little talent, but what a judgemental, self-righteous thing to say, u sound like a complete cunt.

[jblacktree]

She isn't Modern Art and her worth has nothing to do with the worth or validity of anyone else's product. She's just bad. A poor artist. Predictable and under-thought and cynical. Baquiat is great. Serra is superb. She's bad. Not between her and Sistine Chapel or her and DuChamp. And no, art isn't "anything" you say. She's proof of that.

[whersWaldo]

lol the women sees shes on cam lololo

[TheAndrew633]

First, Art is for the artist, if the viewer engages with it great, if they do not, so what. Second, Art can be anything( see M Duchamp). Both Manet and Van Gogh were derided in their own lifetimes for not being 'acceptable'. Third, Art is about feelings, what the artist feels about the world about them.

Most comment about contemporary art originates from the tabloid press and half listened to reports. Before you speak go see the work and put it in context. Then have your say.

[vitaminD11]

@TheAndrew633 these people have lost their idea of beauty, there must be beauty in everything. even in horrific things beauty is an ideal

[tadhgmccabe]

@TheAndrew633 If Art is simply for the artist, what is the point of putting it into a public arena and inviting the public to engage with it. You are really confirming the view that contemporary art is totally self indulgent. It insults the public by implying that if they don't like or engage with it, then they are lacking in some way. The hubris and stupidity of that widespread idea within the contemporary (non) Art world is breathtaking.

[pues13]

everyone hating on tracey doesnt know jack shit about state of contemporary art. + she has nice tits

[bufprochi1]

@pues13 that shit is a nice piece of art but she is old now. But still hey! she can do a cam show,

woop woop

[eltonjohntribute]

"I could have done that" followed by "Well, you didn't"

What is this, who can grab the mediochre idea first?

Well, I look at the Sistine Chapel and say "I couldn't have done that." That's why I look on it in awe and why I don't look on Emin's work at all if I can help it.

It isn't only a waste of your own brief time to tour cold white "galleries" looking at crap, it shows great disrespect for the great artists whose sublimely beautiful work we could look at instead. Fill your life with beauty

[icemachine79]

@eltonjohntribute The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel could be called mediocre since the subject matter isn't exactly original. I'm not calling it mediocre myself, but my point is that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. The Sistine Chapel profoundly affects many people, just as the works of Tracey Emin and other modern artists do to others. THAT is the point of art. Now you don't have to like modern art, but to deny that others find it beautiful is ignorant and insular in the extreme.

[Muskadash]

She's like a horrible kid in a playground having an extended, sweary temper tantrum. Fortunately for her, a lot of idiots are willing to pretend it's good, profound art and give her a lot of money to do it. Pathetic, and risible.

[scottishnationalist]

Tracy Emin is no more creative, than a Chimpanzee spread its own shit on a wall.

I personally would like to see Tracy Emin make art by harming herself.

[Muskadash]

Tracey Emin is crap. What's to respect about drunken sweary scrawls on paper and grotty 'confessional' exhibitionism. She's like some disturbed mental patient who has been fortunate enough to have been awarded a massive Care in the Community grant.

[marksbrisby]

Tracey Emin is my favourite artist, I really like her work

[tietajajoshua]

PEAR SHAPED FAG HAG

[lovemetu]

Tracey could flog sand to an Arab perhaps even do a dump on a canvas and convince some ''arty twit'' that it was art .......... oh I forgot she's done that already eg her masterpiece ''My first fag and shit of the day '' She is a Genius ?

[aaronfromhastings]

Just as a banknote is really only a piece of paper and not worth anything, just as gold has no practical use for most people, yet these things, and postmodern (conceptual) art are really forms of currency. After all, once you have the concept, there is ctually no point in creating the art. To create art also needs to be justified, and if the art is no more different or special than the generic concept then its creation has no value at all. It becomes a banknote.

[lovemetu]

ummmm ,well that is a very technical,educated reply ,without any swearing !!

My late father always said that to swear showed a distinct lack of vocabulary !!

[lovemetu]

Tracey is a cheeky little thing,with a funny little crooked smile and loads of charm in a funny way.She would have fitted well into Fagins gang as a female ''Artfull Dodger'' she posseses the gift of fooling naive so called ''educated '' people into believing anything she wants !! She could sell invisible coats to the wealthy and foolish alias Hans Christian Anderson ''The emperors new coat '' ,keep fooling them Tracey hehehe

[almanacofsleep]

To be honest love lovemetu shes not trying to fool any one. Her work is quite direct, the people who like her work do so because of this

[lovemetu]

Tracey Emin first came to public notice in 1997 following a late night live channel 4 discussion show in which she was completely drunk .She abused all her fellow guests on the show ,then suddenly got up and left stating that '' I wanna be with my mum'' and finishing with the words ''I dont give a fuck about it ''

[scottishnationalist]

Dear Tracy Emin,

If you are reading this could you please make art by harming yourself.

Thank you

[eltonjohntribute]

It isn't art. It's a public self-indulgent daydream. Art is where you create something other people want to relate to and be touched by. Emin's work repels people. How is that art?

I don't care who buys the stuff or how much for. They must have too much money to start with and at least TE has found a clever way of relieving them of their excess wealth. You must admire her for that.

I don't like the work or want to see it. It's not really "work" is it? That's an insult to people who work.

[stinkriverstudios]

YOU dont make the definition of art, dumb fuck, the artists do. You dont create something OTHER people want to relate to. You create art because you need to. Its in your soul and in your blood. A real artist could give a shit if other people "relate" to it or not. If they do and find the information useful, great. If people dont the artist moves on (or already has) to their next project. Fucking grow up and get some REAL education about the creative process and the people who practice it.

[aaronfromhastings]

You make me laugh. I studied at the same Art College as Tracy Emin and got a first class degree, so don't tell me to get an education. Get one yourself.

[almanacofsleep]

"Emin's work repels people. How is that art?" Well that seems to be your point of veiw but you don't speak for everyone.

[aaronfromhastings]

Then let me be blunt.

Van Gogh and Monet lived more than a century ago and people have copies of their paintings on their walls to this day.

Or how about the 2000 year old Lacoon sculpture? No-one can see this and not be awed by it.

I have "Starry Night" right here by my desk. Show me one person who has a photo of Emin's tent on their wall, or who would even want that.

[almanacofsleep]

So why does art only matter if people can mass produce it and stick it on their walls? Or are you saying that it has to be over a hundred years old to matter? I hate to break it to you but art hasn't remained static.

[aaronfromhastings]

Conceptual art was started by Duchamps when he entered an inverted urinal into a competition, calling it "fountain" and signing it "R.Mutt."

When it won the competition he said that he realised Art was dead.

Whoever continues the project does so on these terms. The context of art must be its history, either supporting or rejecting it. Conceptual art continues to support Duchamp's self-confessed failure and, accordingly, that of Art, prolongs its own death with work such as Emin / Hirst.

[TheAndrew633]

@aaronfromhastings Small problem.........the urinal was rejected from the exhibition and didnt win anything.............but in its context brilliant!!!

[Muskadash]

No, art has disappeared up its own backside.

[gaelicscots]

I think Tracy Emin should make art by harming herself.

[Muskadash]

No, a lot of morons think there's actually something profound about it.

[almanacofsleep]

so tell us what is profound then?

[Muskadash]

Well for a start, something that doesn't look like the result of a naughty schoolgirl getting ratted on lager while her parents are away, trashing the house and scrawling random, illiterate drunken sweary slogans on grotty bits of paper. Some profound things/artists: Shakespeare, Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Lawrence, The Singing Detective, The Pianist, etc

[almanacofsleep]

i think her works quite honest, confronting who she is directly. Thats quite a hard thing to d. Mabey you don't like the mediams she uses to express her work with.

[PsychoTabitha]

well, reality check, she didn't make it for you. so like it or don't but why bitch about it? lol

[artocrat2009]

Read the thread - twat.

[stinkriverstudios]

Right on! DAmned well said. Thank you.

[DavidWasHere1991]

put in her in the royal marines for 2 years she'd be a changed woman and look back on her previous life as a waste and be ashamed of all her crap art

[JohanHelenius]

Infantilisation of Western culture.

[spartan2600]

@JohanHelenius What is infantile with introspection?

[toomuchluggage]

@JohanHelenius Yeah, culture was so much more grown-up when art was about sculptures of nude teenagers with no pubic hair.

[stew102030]

moreover its amazing how something which is 'not' art has got you arguing so fiercly. also none of you have yet answered my question.

[stew102030]

ahaa this argument makes me laugh :)

we are in a time of contemporary art wether you like it or not. now if you want paintings like that of the classical era's go ahead and do it.

Oh wait you can't. I love how bad your arguments are. 'Thats not art i could do it.' I dont think you can and you can say you can but, you have not therefore it is the most pointless argument ever. i could paint like countless artists but oh, i dont .

[artocrat2009]

Er, actually I do it - I sell my work to people that want to buy it for what it is (not what it 'represents'). I work hard to sell my art, and despise the likes of Emin who earn millions just because they are trendy and hide behind the notion that the general public doesn't understand what they do.

[artocrat2009]

This isn't art - a 10 year old could do it.

Actually, yes, she does have nice tits. face like the back of a bus, though.

I would probably shag her if I was really, really drunk - beer goggles!! Then shit on her face.

There - is THAT art?!

[IndieRockerJadiee]

no, but the difference is is that she's different to your kind she is on a path to enlightenment, you however have a long long way.

[artocrat2009]

Why isn't it art - and who are you to judge?? And what, exactly, do you mean by 'my kind' - do you know me?? If not, then don't be so bloody judgemental - I commented on Tracy Emin for what she is publicly and for what (little) she offers. "Path to Enlgihtenment" - what a joke. She is a manipulative bullshitter, who caught the attention of a few people with more money than sense - just like Damien Hirst..

[IndieRockerJadiee]

No Idon't know you but I know the type of person that can actually say that about the way someone looks - so you have a breed, unfortunately! No she isn't a BAD person, Damien Hirst is more of an idiot than her, her tent was a good idea! Yes the unmade bed was stupid, but hey, we aren't up there so who are we to judge anyway?

[artocrat2009]

I never said she was bad - just that she is ugly and her 'art' stinks - I am entitled to my opinion. We can judge her 'art' in any way we like - it is public property. The unmade bed was a media trick to trigger sensationalist reaction (as I've already said). I have judged her art and consider it worthless. I'm a trained and successful artist myself, by the way, and this is in no way fuelled by jealousy.

[strawberrygirrl]

if shit is art then my art is regular

[pues13]

nice tits

[kazinscky]

Everyone can draw something and call it art, but very few should. Stop seeing art as paint, see it as a language of signs. A language only a few are willing to learn, and even fewer willing to speak.

Whats the emotive content of a tent with sexual partners stiched in it? Instead of painting a picture for you, you're being imaginative for her. In a subtle way, she reversed traditional process. That aint a good thing.

[artocrat2009]

The point is that it isn't just sexual - its a silly trick to sensationalise. Most people assume she means it in the sexual sense, but it includes people she slept with in her childhood ie as in sleepovers and cuddling up to her parents in bed. She knew it would be provocative and people would jump to the wrong conclusion, just as you did, and generate loads of publicity. Pure sensationalism.

[TheAndrew633]

@kazinscky Sleeping partners...........not sexual partners!!!!

[stew102030]

Obviously to subtle for you to notice, or pay attention too.

[moodini99]

You've got your 'to' and 'too' confused.

It isn't subtle, it's talentless garbage. Emin is nothing but a crass drunkard. She certainly isn't an artist.

[stew102030]

explain what is art though?

it is a personnal responce to something right

one mans rubbish is another mans gold

so art is or is not depending on a person.

However people keep saying, "yer i could have pissed in a bed"

as 'how fast we burn' sai yes but you didn't

Moreover if you did, why?

Anyone can piss in a bed but its the reason that is art, she lay in her bed for days without moving because she was depressed. Her art is increadiably thoughtful but very subtle.

[kazinscky]

I used kantian maxims and predicted the date artists couldn't draw and paint anymore, let alone use imagination.

What places her above someone using traditional media to make awesome things? There's depressed people everyday who don't feel the nagging need for attention, yet she "made it incredibly thoughtful but subtle".

I know "the message". It's shallow, you can't relate to it, YOUR imagination does the job for her. Shes a celebrity, like paris hilton.

Choose your next words carefully.

[howfastweburn]

Modern art = "I could have done that." + "yeah, but you didn't."

[milkwhistle]

@howfastweburn taken from morenewmath

[milkwhistle]

@howfastweburn taken from morenewmath.

[LondonDada]

@howfastweburn ... yeah but you not a Saatch arse pan like they are.

U poor mug.

[stew102030]

so if anyone can do it why havn't you done it its not just about skill its about the idea and the thoughts behind it yes anyone can piss on a bed but that dint make it art there has to be a thought process along with it they havnt 'hijacked' art at all art has changed throught the ages you say that not everyone can produce work like Turner etc. i bet you they dont produce all there work they come up with the idea and tell some one to do it so is that therefore there good art or there good idea?

[digbycurrents]

That's bullshit. I haven't done it because I'd be embarrassed & ashamed to churn out that crap. I was doing that sort of hamfisted junk at infants school. It's deeply pathetic & anyone who think's it's art is extremely misguided.

[stew102030]

If you belive that 'skree100' then you have no clue about art.

I would like to take in your ideas on Anthony Gormley's fourth plinth thats going on at the moment because, i bet you wont think that is art either.

One quick question what is 'good' art?

[stew102030]

That goes to graham as well.

[digbycurrents]

You stick to your crayola crayons & your kids scissors & I'll stick to REAL painting that's taken me over 10 years to understand.

[digbycurrents]

Good art is work that takes skill to achieve. Anyone can piss the bed but not everyone can paint the Mona Lisa.

[chandru1103]

Everyone CAN paint the Mona Lisa, with considerable practice and an understanding of rennaissance techniques anyone CAN paint it , because all it is is ugly shallow beauty. Mainly of the ugly brown type.Now not everything is great art to everyone, but everything IS art. To me the Mona Lisa is a glorified crafts project, but to some like you it is the pinnacle of art. For me that is Stella or Rothko.

[digbycurrents]

Don't be silly. Not everyone could paint the Mona Lisa & if they could, it'd take a years of practice. Pissing the bed like Tracy Emin is within everyone's capability with zero amount of practice. You've been brainwashed by the luvies, mate

[chandru1103]

Thats just it isn't it? Everyone CAN do art. To elevate art to something that only a select few can do, makes it a less universal experience for all. You are looking to artists to create things that you can't. Why should that matter in the grand scheme of things? I mean if a child paints a painting of his/her parents and one of them is depicted as an evil monster it IS art in the sense that it expresses human fears and trauma. But according to you since "anyone" could do it it isn't art. Silly!

[grahamblood]

No you're being silly. If a pissed bed is art, then everything is art. A wiped arse, a flat tyre, a broken tooth, dropped litter. You clearly don't have the ability to seperate art from mindless expression.

[lovemetu]

To chandru 1103 ,To compare Tracey Emin to ''Leonardo Da Vinci'' the genius painter ,scientist ,inventor etc of the middle ages just shows how gullible some people can be in their statements and judgements !!

[digbycurrents]

Ok, I'll paint a fire extinguisher green & place it next to a Mars Bar & a burning candle & I'll call it 'The conflict of God & his inner thoughts'. I want 500 grand for it. Cash please!

[skree100]

very weak. times are changing. the poor art of recentr times will not stand the test of time. You seem a sweet lass but your art is poor

[grahamblood]

People like Emin aren't artists, they're just exhibitionists. Anyone can be an exhibitionist but not everyone can be an artist. These people have hijacked art.

[warriorprince1010]

True. However I like Tracey she is interesting. Exhibition has become art which is a shame. It take years of work to be a great sculptor or painter. Tracey has talent but it is not Vermeer.

[digbycurrents]

I don't think she has a shred of talent. Anyone can do everything that she does but no many people can produce work like Turner, Franz Marc & Chuck Close etc. Emin is just a tabloid luvvie. He's right, they've hijacked art.

[strawdog1234567]

Rubbish propagated by the art establishment.

[condomclive007]

Copy cat Emin.

Look at her movie 'Top Spot' and how similar, very similar, the story is to a best selling 2002 local novel by Karen Louise Taylor titled VIRGINITY "is that it?" Now a 2009 BAFTA submitted movie is that it? Directed by Lord Philip Brett Sinclair

[ShrimpFranks]

Although I've never really been a fan of modern art... there's something about Tracey Emin I can't help but admire.

[Archie5th]

Could just go to glastonbury. Same kinda tent, same kind of idea, except theres more.

[shenstone]

My god, pretentious, psuedo clap trap - to be a tourtured soul must be hard work - get back inside your tent missus and zip it up.

[Max1mumRider]

HOW CAN PEOPLE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY??? HOW IS THIS FAMOUS??? HOW??? That painting was not even a painting. It was a smudge. It was a circle with poo next to it. OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE. SHE'S RIPPING YOU OFF!!

[katemarie1986]

You're completely missing it... completely. What is considered art changes throughout the ages. Take the impressionists - people had the similar ideas as you on their paintings when they were first exhibited, as in they thought they were shit, but that view point changed - and when we look back now we see that impressionism was an artistic movement. People seem to be in an awful rush to label something art or not. Makes me feel sick.

[chandru1103]

Thank you kindly. For once someone shovels a good art history reference right into the faces of the nay-sayers. If people would just stop looking at things to tell whether they are "art" and started looking at the works on the basis of success of the work to convey its message than Contemporary work would be more valued by the general public.

[grahamblood]

Conveying a message isn't difficult. It isn't art either. Since when has art been solely about making a statement anyway? I'm sorry but infant school collage & a pissed bed isn't art. You've just been brainwashed by the luvies.

[ATaleOfLaceAndBlood]

My favorite artist EVER

[fabfleur18]

mine too :D

[Ghengiskw]

good or bad, she's different

give her some credit

[milnusthegnome]

I will ruin the tent and cum in it, that will be art.

[TheBlackPage1]

better yet; just get a piece of paper, write "slut" in bold capital letters and put it in the tate gallery.

[chandru1103]

It would be art, you are so right. Illegal, but still art. You just have to have the intent to make a "work" and do it.

[kateallen88]

her work is incredible. enough said.

[myview28]

Tracey is a twat. I realized that when I saw a picture she'd drawn of her gash from behind. That's true class. She's a true lady. That tent is like something a high school would do as a joke. It's shit - she must know someone important - her work is worthless shit. She's f***ing someone important in the art world.

[mummiefied]

WHAT, A BAG, OF TOSS!

[Synthweasel]

ive pissed off artists in the past :) once went to put up a painting for a show! the theme was getting reactions out of people :) so I owned everyone! I painted a matchstick man on a canvas in like 2 secs! handed it over! artists took offense :) said I was not taking it serious! my response was that I casued more of a reaction than any of the crap other people had, didnt need to try :) BUT!! I got rejected!! :) I laughed

[artstuX]

Well done you!

Your mother must be proud.

I love you.

[Synthweasel]

I'm an artist! went to uni etc! and I always put a middle finger up at this shit!! always refused to go to see Turner Prize bollocks!! Ive met artist who come up with this type of crap and then have some big story behind it!! talk to others like their so above everyone? as for me :) I don't sell myself out to be an attention seeking cheap artist! thats going to get the media all crazed!! desperate art isn't my thing :)

[liquidplastic62]

What a degenerate world we live in.

I hate talentless people who believe they're talented only because they've been plucked out of obscurity by a handful of fat-bellied suits needing to champion a few graduate fart students so as to justify the huge arts funding seeking media attention so as to perpetuate more funding for a symbiotic subvention of crap soup hello major exterminate exterminate! I am a Dalek!

You will obey

[Liste10]

what a low count

[MIDJOBZ]

i love gays i dont mind how many women tracey has been intimate with! i would love my name in her sexy hot tent ;)

[MaddiMcMurray]

I don't understnd why everyone nowadays is a cynic. Why the fuck do people feel the need to put art in a box. Art is expression, this is her expression. It doesn't HAVE to be a boring landscape painted with fine brushstrokes that took a bajillion hours to make, It's anythjing that evokes emotion. And for her, this does. And to UltraBeans, she already said it wasn't all sexual it was about INTIMACY. Ignorant knob end. Done :) Xxxx

[flipmanja]

How do you know this is her expression, though? I'll go "conspiracy-theory" on you, and say how do you know that Tracy Emins is not just a really good confidence trickster?

-Since what she's doing inhabits no talent whatsoever. It may evoke emotions in her audience, true, but in terms of artistic accomplishment-she has none.

[MaddiMcMurray]

Like i said everyone's a cynic.

Don't you believe it would be hard to pretend all of this? Because maybe it isn't to your taste, but it has soul, even if only to her.

And to fake that? well she must be an incredibly intelligent woman, and one very good actress.

She has integrity, i'm not sure what you mean by accomplishment because as far as i'm concerned to has.

But ahh well. I can understand why people dont respect it, get it or even like it. But it evokes reaction Thats what it's about.

[flipmanja]

I don't think it'd be hard at all to pretend this. There've been so many conmen in the art world, it's not even funny. And It's not difficult to lie or act.

Each to their own, of course. I can also understand why people respect her. But to me, art will always have to have that aspect of manual dexterity. Even in the performing arts. If you're watching ballet & some guy stumbles on stage & does a forward roll-you wouldn't exactly compliment him on his dance skills. Same with this kind of art.

[ead1529]

Meh, she's not a favorite of mine.

[harniharni]

Tracy, she is a violative woman!

[FlemilyEming]

not all people enjoy sentimental or melodramatic art. This is fine. I love it. It takes a girl back to the sexual angst of being a 14 year old girl who was a little too curious. That's what I feel when I look at her stuff. Her work has nothing to do with talent really, but with feeling.

[shaymultimedia]

will talent ever return to the art equation again?

[4623537]

I'm surprised the tent wasn't six times as big.

[SELVAJANE]

tracey emin will be bankrupt and a drunk within 10 years......

[applejony]

I LIKE! TOO

[MIDJOBZ]

I LIKE!