The Turner Prize?

[Stargazer]

What do you think of it?

[Mamyalynne]

Very interesting outcome this time, as long as all are in agreement then that's no bad thing.

[Peter Pedant]

you mean
turn-you-off prize ?

who won and what with?
I stayed with a rather political speech, and wondered if the orator should have been told it was an Art prize and not a plea to vote for the party she liked .....

[Mamyalynne]

https://news.sky.com/story/turner-prize-2019-nominees-share-award-after-solidarity-plea-11877606

[shoota]

Where is the politicking?
They said they wanted to speak out in "an era marked by the rise of the right and the renewal of fascism in an era of the Conservatives' hostile environment that has paradoxically made each of us and many of our friends and family again increasingly unwelcome in Britain".
I prefer watercolour landscapes personally.

[naomi24]

No longer an award for art then.

[douglas9401]

I'll guarantee that three out of four are seriously peed off about dropping thirty grand and the one who suggested sharing in the first place is not far behind.

[Deskdiary]

Is this art or are they 'Installations'?

Installation is just about the most pretentious word to pass off any old tat as 'art' there has to be.

Art, of course, is subjective, but for me the 'art' in the Turner Prize is just self-indulgent rubbish. No doubt this makes me a luddite.

Take Martin Creed - I mean really, how are we meant to take this seriously...

"Creed’s art is characterised by a gentle but subversive wit and by a minimalism rooted in an instinctive anti-materialism. His often extremely self-effacing works, all titled by number, such as Work No.79 1993, ‘some Blu-Tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall’, or Work No. 88 ‘a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball’,"

A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into ball is 'art'? In which case, I manage to produce art most days of the week!

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2001/turner-prize-2001-artists-martin-creed

As for the quote in Shoota's post.....well, they're idiots, aren't they.

[jourdain2]

What kills me is that Tracy Emin is 'Professor of Drawing' or something ---- and she can't draw for toffee. I don't really class 'installations' as Art, another term is needed.

[Mamyalynne]

What is Art? is a huge question - it means so many things to so many people.

I agree some Installations are laughable, but done well the genre can be thought provoking.

We tend to hear more about the wacky than the good and moving.

[dance2trance]

It is self evident nonsense. At least it keeps the middle classes from hanging around the streets and hectoring us normal people. And that is a blessing in itself.