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Post by Dan Dare on Sept 25, 2023 10:19:41 GMT
 Tate Britain is honouring former YBA and enfant terrible of the art scene Sarah Lucas with a retrospective at Tate Britain. The blurb reads:
“…Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.
This exhibition presents her practice in all its diversity across sculpture, installation and photography, narrated in her voice, and looking well beyond the 1990s Young British Art world.
Breaking boundaries with humour and daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it means to be human.” The event is sponsored by Burberry. Perhaps you should bear that in mind when shopping for a new winter Mac. The Tate itself receives the majority of its funding (£60 million pa) from the government ie the taxpayers.
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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 25, 2023 16:12:07 GMT
Well, i suppose ‘artists’ have been controversial ever since some bloke sold Tate Modern a oile of bricks and The Sun published an advert from the London Brick Company featuring a ripoff of the said ‘artwork’, atop which lay a Page Three Girl in classic pose and the caption read ‘Beautifully Made, and Easily Laid’
If Burberry are wholly paying for this trash, fair enough, my diva of a grand daughter wouldn’t be seen dead in their crap (her words not mine)
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Post by Vanna on Sept 26, 2023 4:33:15 GMT
I've never heard of this artist. (Which doesn't surprise me.)
The pics you posted, Dan, give me a profoundly misogynistic feeling about them. What woman would portray her own sex like that? It's pretty horrific. But then, Tracey Emin does it too. It's hugely politically fashionable and if you play to the establishment, you get into galleries and history books. If you are any kind of a creator you need to ask yourself where your priorities lie before you produce anything. If all you are going to do is portray your psychosis, the establishment psychosis or your ego, then your creations will reflect something concerning about those who promote them. If your priorities lie with the mob and its manipulators then you're in the money. If not, you're basically fooked but you have at least been true to yourself and to your subject matter.
I agree with your suggestion that the sponsors of the female hating muck above should get the Budweiser Light treatment.
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Post by Dogburger on Sept 26, 2023 16:21:30 GMT
Well it made me look and wonder WTF is that all about which is in some ways the object of art .To get the attention of the passer by ,to create discussion ,so yes its art .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2023 16:25:17 GMT
A childish attempt at surrealism. One would have been enough.
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Post by Bentley on Sept 26, 2023 16:31:59 GMT
I've never heard of this artist. (Which doesn't surprise me.) The pics you posted, Dan, give me a profoundly misogynistic feeling about them. What woman would portray her own sex like that? It's pretty horrific. But then, Tracey Emin does it too. It's hugely politically fashionable and if you play to the establishment, you get into galleries and history books. If you are any kind of a creator you need to ask yourself where your priorities lie before you produce anything. If all you are going to do is portray your psychosis, the establishment psychosis or your ego, then your creations will reflect something concerning about those who promote them. If your priorities lie with the mob and its manipulators then you're in the money. If not, you're basically fooked but you have at least been true to yourself and to your subject matter. I agree with your suggestion that the sponsors of the female hating muck above should get the Budweiser Light treatment. SMaybe not so misogynistic in a society of ‘ only fans’ and porn star actresses boxing professionally etc etc . |
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