Last night I watched a short documentary on Tracy Emin. I really liked her attitude to 'art', her self expression is liberating. Emin does a lot of drawings on the subject of sex as she explains because she thinks about it a lot! Good woman.
With her seaside hut she just simply fell in love with the space and so shipped it over to New York to exhibit in a gallery. Emin liked the idea of the seaside hut sailing across the ocean to another foreign land. When she started to install the seaside hut in New York she cried with joy of seeing it again. It evokes good memories as I have had on sunny days at the seaside.
Her celebrity status comes from 'people wanting to relate to something', she has become a 'peoples artist'. Freedom to express yourself has now become fashionable after the almost regimented world of Margaret Thatcher. We are now striving to be individual. This is Emin's theory of why her work is so popular today. Maybe or it's simply because she is so down to earth ...
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