Do You Consider This Mess To Be 'Art'?

[♥ Lily ♥]

'My Bed' is a 'work' by the British 'artist' Tracey Emin.

First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize.

It consisted of her messy bed with bedroom objects in an abject state, and gained much media attention.

The idea for My Bed was inspired by a sexual yet depressive phase in the artist's life
when she had remained in bed for several days without eating or drinking anything but alcohol.

When she looked at the vile, repulsive mess that had accumulated in her room,
she suddenly realised what she had created.

Emin ardently defended My Bed against critics who treated it as a farce
and claimed that anyone could exhibit an unmade bed.

To these claims the artist retorted,
"Well, they didn't, did they? No one had ever done that before."

My Bed was bought by Charles Saatchi for £150,000
and displayed as part of the first exhibition when the Saatchi Gallery
opened its new premises at County Hall, London (which it has now vacated).

Saatchi also installed the bed in a dedicated room in his own home.

When it was announced, in May 2014, that the work was to be auctioned,
David Maupin, Emin's dealer in New York, described the £800,000 – £1.2 million estimate as too low.

When auctioned by Christie's in July 2014, the piece was sold for a little over £2.5 million."

[Tauromachos]

No i call it the bed of an average undergraduate student

[♥ Lily ♥]

It looks like anyone can be an 'artist' today and sell fraudulent 'art' for £millions to rich idiots who would buy such junk.... if exhibiting an unmade bed is considered as being 'art.'

Andy Warhol asked someone to once urinate on a canvas - which he called 'art'.

[♥ Lily ♥]

No i call it the bed of an average undergraduate student

Even a 3 year old infant could produce better art... than that very lazy effort by Emin of an unmade and messy bed being considered as 'art'.

[Tauromachos]

Even a 3 year old infant could produce better art... than that very lazy effort by Emin of an unmade and messy bed being considered as 'art'.

Nowadays everything is considered Art

Even sitting at a table for half an hour and staring at each other

[♥ Lily ♥]

I've seen some breathtaking art exhibitions on display inside some of London's art galleries... especially classical paintings... but I've seen some absolute junk displayed inside some of the galleries here too.

I also saw a massive painting on a wall inside an art gallery that I visited in Southampton once, and a small crowd of people were staring at the 'painting' in awe. It looked like a load of paints had just been chucked onto the canvas (like vomit.) It was such a mess. I can't remember the price tag, but I remember me and my friends were shocked and disgusted at the ridiculous price for the so-called 'painting'.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Nowadays everything is considered Art

Even sitting at a table for half an hour and staring at each other

I think a lot of modern 'music' and 'art' is declining in quality, especially compared to classical music and art.

[♥ Lily ♥]

How to become a millionaire: mess up your bed and sell it as 'art'. Or alternatively, use a load of repetitive dance beats on a keyboard - and sell it as 'music' for drugged-up idiots to buy.

[Tauromachos]

How to become a millionaire: mess up your bed and sell it as 'art'.

How to become an artist

Take an empty box of cola squezze it and call it modern Art

[Westbrook]

There's nothing even remotely artistic about the accompanying mess left after a pathetic bender.