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Discuss.

I prefer The Grand Viziers Garden Party personally.

I wonder whether the Turner committee might be getting soft, his stuff might almost be pretty enough to be popular.

check out Far from the Harbour Wall from Broken China

Discuss? Is he breaking those shoes in for Coco the clown? They're blimmin enooooooooormous.

Since Damien Hirst was let loose in the abbatoir, and Tracy Emin realised that she could make more money on her back than with a paintbrush, the Turner Prize is distinct pish.

Richard Wright wrote:My paintings were rubbish

About sums it up for me - awarding prizes to artists is an intensely subjective exercise, and has become a gauge by which peoples' "culture" is measured. If you like sharks cut in half then you're hip and edgy, if you like screaming popes then you're passé, apparently. Let artists create art for the sake of art, not for the sake of becoming the darling of the moment. In a less celebrity-obsessed age artists had patrons who commissioned works from them, or they were eccentrics who closeted themselves away in garrets, only emerging for supplies of tea, cheap booze, and cigs.

I don't recall Hieronymus Bosch winning awards or being feted by the glitterati - and he really did know his way around a paintbrush.

EvilBastard wrote:In a less celebrity-obsessed age artists had patrons who commissioned works from them, or they were eccentrics who closeted themselves away in garrets, only emerging for supplies of tea, cheap booze, and cigs

And vodka.

EvilBastard wrote:I don't recall Hieronymus Bosch winning awards or being feted by the glitterati - and he really did know his way around a paintbrush.

He knew his way around a great many things - most of them are now illegal, extinct or both.

Good answer.

R. Mutt

James Blast wrote:R. Mutt

Pee-cisely.