Sarah Lucas
Hello intermerweb
Today I am looking at a stoner
Now you might be asking yourself which stoner is it? Aren’t all artists stoners? Blah Blah Blah. Now this particular stoner’s name is Sarah Lucas. Now I’m going to take you out of my normal review of art work today and mainly just talk about her as, well, a person, which I think she’s passing herself off as. Either that, or a house plant. It’s very hard to tell with her. Then her art work, so let’s delve right in
First I would like to show you one of her ‘art’ pieces, and her reaction to it just to give you the general feeling about her. This piece in particular gives all the tell-tale signs of a classic stoner. This piece is called “Two fried eggs and a Donnar kebab”
Now when I first saw this piece I genuinely thought that she had put a lot of thought into its construction. But then I saw the “Saatchi Galleries top 100″ which had an interview with Sarah Lucas about this piece of work in particular, and well, all she really said about the piece was that the fried eggs looked good on the table so she put a donnar kebab next to it. She then went into great depth about how she tried unvarnishing then revarnishing the table over and over again (Interested and fascinated by simple and meaningless tasks? *ahem* Stoner). And well, after hearing her more or less say that the “eggs looked good on table so I put donner kebab to improve it” kinda killed all of the symbolism behind what she had presented.
This is the same for a large proportion of her other works as well. More or less it is art from a purely visual point of view but only from that, and it’s the same for her defending it as well. Her response more or less is just “Looked good so I did it”. I mean come on how the hell is she getting away with this and is still classified as an artist? I could understand her if she had intent behind her work which is visible to us and not just her drug addled brain. That’s another thing, in her interviews she’s either drunk or high as a kite. How can you take this woman seriously when she presents blatantly sexual innuendos as works of art which aren’t subtle or creative and then more or less say nothing in their defence apart from that she spent hours varnishing and stripping a table?
But the thing which amazes me most of all is that the art world eats it up and calls it amazing art. It’s at this point that I say “Screw it,” and start reviewing beer, because you obviously have to be in on it to be able to understand any work which she produces. This is a classic case of the ‘emperor’s new clothes’ only those who are artistic understand art or some nonsense like that.
I’m not condemning Sarah Lucas’s art…… Well I am but that’s mainly because of the artist and the lack of her intent or purpose. As I’ve stated in my “What is Art?” review, art should have a deeper meaning than just the surface aesthetics, and that is why Sarah Lucas is just a stoner with an entourage of adoring critics.
Thank you for reading this.
