Pointlessness and guesture failure

[woodrot]

If ever we needed an indicator how how low the UK has sunk - I suppose artists whoring themselves to the rich & nprivilged is hardly new - its not like the old parasite needs any new art to decorate her homes.maybe she has had the side return extended especially for this crap. I dunno.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2248105/Queen-gifted-97-original-works-Royal-Academy-artists-including-Tracey-Emin-David-Hockney-Grayson-Perry-mark-Diamond-Jubilee.html

You can fill in your own pro monarchy comment below - try to include statements about how the UK is a net benficiary due to the Royals and give me a good ole pasting with COLD HARD FACTS delivered with a sleek confident nonchelance.

[woodrot]

and correct my spelling as well

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[Loz]

Really - who would want a gift of a Tracey Emin 'piece'?

[Huguenot]

Well just to clear up the usual bullshit...

The gifts were given to the Royal Collection which belongs to the nation, and of which the Queen is the trustee, not the owner.

So it wasn't given to a 'patron' woodrot, it was in part given to you, but in your typically abusive response you've thrown it back in their face.

I'm guessing that you'd agree that it's better in public ownership than owned by some rich financier who his it away for private satisfaction.

Incidentally, I'm guessing you may not be familiar with what a patron actually is - but it's not the owner of a work, it's the person or institution that supported the actor to help them to create the work.

[woodrot]

Loz Wrote:

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> Really - who would want a gift of a Tracey Emin

> 'piece'?

I have seen marks on used bog roll that shows more composition, balance and innate talent than Emin. She can do no wrong of course, shes a national treasure.A perfect fit for the self pitying compoclaim xfactored Marcusian toss monkeys that ooze from the tailored media we avidly consume . innit.

[maxxi]

Surely this kind of thing is just the usual artist PR exercise - to get their 'pictures' in the paper sorta thing (as well as giving the usual "my kid coulda done that" brigade the opportunity to be outraged - it's what the DM does).

To wrench this in another direction and take the title too literally - does anyone else think the crappy linear lighting arrangement on the Trafalgar Sq. Christmas tree (making it look like a pin-striped dildo) spoils the shape and idea of a 'tree' to the point of making the annual gesture pointless (as in it might just as well be a cardboard model of the Gherkin)?

[the-e-dealer]

I wouldnt mind a piece of tracy.

[thusau2]

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[Chick]

I wonder if Emin now regrets supporting the Tories after what they have done to the ?arts?.

[Burbage]

woodrot Wrote:

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> You can fill in your own pro monarchy comment

> below - try to include statements about how the UK

> is a net benficiary due to the Royals and give me

> a good ole pasting with COLD HARD FACTS delivered

> with a sleek confident nonchelance.

With whatever respect you feel due, it is members of the Royal Academy that have decided to hand the Queen their daubs. It really takes very little scrutiny to calculate the probable strength of that organization's republican tendencies, and it would have hardly have been excessively polite of you to have bothered.

If you are genuinely perturbed by the nefarious antics of our constitutional monarchy and its craven cadre of obsequity, I suggest you spend more time with the Express, and less time wasting mine. If you're genuinely shocked that artists prostitute their alleged talents, I suggest you find another planet.

[woodrot]

tell it like it is bro'