Category: Coursework 01

What does their art say about their relationships? – with others, themselves and how they are viewed because of the automatic relationship. All this work is provocation.

Tracey Emin – the importance of her relationships

My bed + Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, 1963-1995, is a blue camping tent, with the 102 names of the people she has slept with in it. Not just sexual way but friends and family.

Jenny Saville- male gaze romanticizing so she does fleshy impactful work to combat this. She wants to show an authentic of people.

(Plan (1993), in which a naked woman is seen from below, her body filling the canvas through a combination of physical bulk and extreme foreshortening, the surface of the flesh inscribed like a topographic map showing the distinct lines of a surgeon’s plan.) royal academy profile on Jenny Saville

Lucas has a blunt view sensitive topics including sexuality, female objectification and death.

Eating a banana + Self portrait with fried eggs

She wants to show how ridiculous the view of women is.  

After reading the brief I reflected back on what is important to me and catches my interest. Something I feel passion about is relationships between people and how they are displayed through art. I find it deeply interesting how they portray someone that they care and love, as it shows their view and opinion on the person that they are close with. The question I propose is ‘how do artist display their relationships with those they care for’.