Now do a Google search on say "Tracy Emin contemporary artist" and you will find some 8000 hits, or "installation artist", some 3000 hits. Find me a reference outside of Wikipedia that shows one of her paintings, or refers to Emin as a painter (clue: there is one). Andy Mabbett 21:34, (UTC) Lets try a little harder. Andy Mabbett 21:23, (UTC)įFS! Tracey Emin. Now what makes you say that Tracey Emin is a painter? - Solipsist 18:18, (UTC) I'm sure I don't need to remind you that her earliest claim to fame is a rather drunken appearance on Channel 4's 'End of Painting' debate in 1997 - she wasn't in the pro-painting camp. However, in this case I doubt there is a single art critic who would say that Tracy Emin is a painter, in fact she is more likely to be highlighted as the antithesis of a painter. And I quite agree, people should be in the appropriate category for 'what they are' which doesn't always correspond with their own view of themselves. Andy Mabbett 19:33, (UTC) Sorry, I missed your revert on this one.
Wikipedia is about what people (and things) are, or have been, not how they describe themseves. She seems to have made strenuous efforts to exorcise her training as a painter, although I seem to recall at least one of her early landscape paintings was exhibited at a show in London in 2003. Just to comment that I removed the Category:Painters, because I doubt that Emin would describe herself as a painter. It doesn't seem like anyone really cared that much, not even the artists. Lestrade 18:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Lestrade Reply
The understatement in the article does not fully express the horror of the cultural loss. This is a catastrophic loss for people everywhere, not only in Britain.
Future humanity has been deprived of the fruit and flower of Royal Academic art. The matter–of–fact statement regarding the spontaneous fire does not convey the enormity of the tragedy. The Last Thing I Said Is Don't Leave Me Here is a photograph of Tracey Emin, naked, curled up on the floor inside a wooden room - Daisy See for example (which claims to be The Hut) and (which claims to be "The last thing I said to you is don't leave me here" - note there's "to you" in there, by the way). I wonder if the last two here named are the same thing. On 24 May, 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including Everyone I have ever slept with 1963-95, The Last Thing I Said Is Don't Leave Me Here and The Hut.
#EMIN STRANGELAND TV#
Why do all celebrities with 'gypsy roots' seem to be directly linked with the 'King of the Gypsies'whenever a TV show is made? What were the sources of information for the tree shown in her case - there don't appear to be any cited in the entire programme: moreover, there were several rather large question marks over the veracity of information /surname of her own GGGrandfather Joseph, let alone his 'ancestors'. However, on the tree, the name 'Boswell' had a question mark next to it. Towards the end of the BBC programme on Emin: 'Who Do You Think You Are?", a genealogist presented a family tree of her 'gypsy family', and stated that her ancestors had married into 'very important gypsy families' - the only one being an ancestor called 'Hester' who was said to have married into the Boswell Clan (see wiki entry on 'King of the Gypsies').
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