Tracy Emin
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Today I’m going to be looking at one of the most pretentious artists I’ve seen for a while. Now this artist is not only extremely pretentious but also no one seems to be impressed with her work which begs the question why is she still on the public radar? The artist I am referring to is none other than Tracy Emin.
I’ve found through watching interviews and reading articles that Tracy Emin is an artist on the same line of her contemporary Sarah Lucas. Emin, like Lucas, is an artist who turns up either drunk or stoned to her interviews and also produces shockingly bad work. But the difference that I’ve found between Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas is that the art world and public are either indifferent towards Emin’s work or hate it, and her with a passion. So this really does ask the question if no one in either of the two worlds likes her or her art work why is she still being commissioned to produce ‘art’?
The main reason why Emin is such a bad artist is because she doesn’t even attempt to push the boundaries of art. Now I know that not all artists push the boundaries of acceptable art but they still produce good work. Emin however, does not because she’s pretentious, a person who has all the pomposity and big headedness to back up the ‘boundary art type’ but yet she falls short by not delivering with her work. A lot of Emin’s instillations such as ‘My Bed’ are very complicated in construction and content emulating the idea that she is an alcoholic who’s set up home in a gallery because its warm and out of the rain. As complicated as it is with its construction it falls incredibly short in lacking any meaning or content apart from the fact that Emin spent seven days of her life writhing about drunk and on the verge of suicide because of her relationship problems. One might think that those seven days could have been put to better use in rehab.
Emin’s ‘art’ is incredibly lazy. It is obvious. It is meaningless and it is not remotely good to look at. The key feature of art, if it has no metaphor or depth, is to at least be acceptable to look at without needing a sick bag. The most surprising thing of Emin is that she has a cult following. Not of fans more along the lines of passionate haters of her and the detestable work she produces. Which throws up the most important question of all. Why does she still get work? The answer to this question is simple. It is because she is hated, that she is famous. This is mainly because she has become a cult object of bad art which everyone hates. Due to this level of discontent, her work has gained value becoming infamous. This has on the whole created more work for her because everyone knows who Tracy Emin is. Emin has unfortunately become a household name, for how not to produce art and also how not to live your life. It really is a shame that she has gained this level of popularity. Mainly because it adding to her bloated egoistic idea about what art is. Emin’s view of art is, and I quote “art is anything I want it to be its my world and it’s for others to take a look upon my imagination, my soul and look deep into it, it ’could’ make you see things in a different light and have a purpose or it could have no purpose other than to fascinate or horrify the viewer or even simply personal expression of a personal matter too you, but to ask what it is…is just ridiculous.” As we can tell from this Emin believes art to be her life story which we all reflect upon and integrate it into our own lives, affecting us in our day to day comings and goings. How is this woman allowed to walk the streets unescorted? She has more or less declared herself to be a god walking the earth, who needs to be worshipped and adored by all. How large an ego does this woman have? Most artists see themselves as working towards a higher greatness, setting their name in history. However, to see yourself as art incarnate is a completely different level of lunacy.
I could go on all day about Emin but there would be little point in doing so. Is she an artist or not? I leave the decision to you.
The Bird has flown
