Rachel Whiteread - Is it art?

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize.
Whiteread is one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. She is probably best known for Ghost, a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.

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[mazz114]

Fine art is - art for a reason that isn't in the box! Whitread is one of my favourite artits- it is unfair for anyone to comment on conceptual art without realising that their is a meaning behind it all- and to understand the art you need to find out the concept!

[jpapare]

It is really great that people who don't follow the arts and don't recognize this as art, are viewing and commenting. Youtube really let's one know what's "out there". The one thing that strikes me is that someone can be so fascinated with the idea of concretizing empty space. I like the idea, too, but, for me it isn't so enthralling that I would spend years on it. One would have to have followed her chronology to see small developments. But I'm not so engaged in her ideas that I would. VG

[1lebdiesekunde1]

@kukunu She makes negative space just as important as the objects that create that space. I think that's imagitive.

[riodesign3]

If you come from a principle that everything is art.. then this is art!

[laurenmckinney]

She is one of my favorite artists.

[dathilacha]

if you've spent any time looking at what artists have been doing for at least a century, you will recognize it as art. if you haven't, you may not--but then, if you haven't spent any time looking at what artists have been doing for at least a century, what would give you the right to say it's NOT art?

[kukunu]

its really boring. and that one seems to be a gormley not a whiteread? but its all really dull and kind of like a bad stomach ache

[kukunu]

it is not very imaginative art.

[GoodItsTeaTime]

How on earth is this not art? Explain bowlingballout. It's easy to blurt out. Even more ridiculous with your analergy to alcoholism.

[fehquig]

It's art. I may not "get" it, but it's art. It may or may not be good art, but it's art...