Doors of the re-vamped national Portrait Gallery.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/21/doors-tracey-emin-national-portrait-gallerys-41m-rebirth
Pix and comments on changes in the National Portrait Gallery.
Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin: the National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth
Forty-five faces of women, scribbled by Emin, now beam out from bronze doors – all part of an astonishing revamp that has turned this once unloved London landmark into a great building
“‘A foil to the row of 14 white male painters who look down, stony-faced, from above’ … Emin’s doors featuring 45 portraits that ‘represent every woman’
National Portrait Gallery
For me, its a total “like” - women of all ages and cultural backgrounds under the original Great Artists at a time when women were predominantly not just the muse or object of art, but beauty defined as young.
My big grump is of course the London-centric placing- I hope tho to find more close ups of the panels.
My other big grump of course is that Emin drew on the work of some of us producing alternative and controversial images of women in the 1970’s that didn’t match the stereotypes but she hasn’t ever acknowledged this body of work - nor the work of women like Käthe Kollwitz earlier in the century - but things are what they are and glad to see this work, and anyway artists have always drawn on a history of art and worked within it.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/21/doors-tracey-emin-national-portrait-gallerys-41m-rebirth
Pix and comments on changes in the National Portrait Gallery.
Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin: the National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth
Forty-five faces of women, scribbled by Emin, now beam out from bronze doors – all part of an astonishing revamp that has turned this once unloved London landmark into a great building
“‘A foil to the row of 14 white male painters who look down, stony-faced, from above’ … Emin’s doors featuring 45 portraits that ‘represent every woman’
National Portrait Gallery
For me, its a total “like” - women of all ages and cultural backgrounds under the original Great Artists at a time when women were predominantly not just the muse or object of art, but beauty defined as young.
My big grump is of course the London-centric placing- I hope tho to find more close ups of the panels.
My other big grump of course is that Emin drew on the work of some of us producing alternative and controversial images of women in the 1970’s that didn’t match the stereotypes but she hasn’t ever acknowledged this body of work - but things are what they are and glad to see this work, and anyway artists have always drawn on a history of art and worked within it.
Pix - official opening of new gallery
Pix by Kathy Kollwitz
1970's by Judy Chicago
Callistemon21
MrsNemo
They are not really appropriate - all a matter of taste, but it's not mine. Tracey Emin has ideas. which can then be executed by others, like her unmade bed. The faces here look just like the class tea towels I have at Christmas from my GC.
I have a cotton bag with a self-portrait by a 6 year old DGD on it which is rather good.
Same here Callistemon, my GSs Christmas tea towel is inspirational.
My own DD as a student in halls could do a better untidy bed than Emin her plus point was a poster of Russel Crowe as Gladiator above for when partners were boring.
She beat Damian Hurst with his dissected-out person for her A levels and even used the same dissection game as her inspiration plus an old textbook of her fathers.
Is she using her skills now of course not she is bogged down in a boring job. Some of us just never get the break. Your grandchild has time yet.
Oh dear FannyC - why don’t you then?
Is this your sort of gallery?
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