![]() This is art? If this is art I will gladly put my entire house up for auction. It would come complete with over-flowing trash cans in the kitchen as well as the bathrooms, unmade beds, dirty clothes and dishes where they oughtn’t be, dirty carpets and rugs and disgusting sheets – though I can’t say ours currently have any unidentified stains in the middle of them. Shoot! I’ll even bottle up the smell of hamster urine that emanates from my daughter’s room. I can understand that some people (aka: crazy people) might look at this mess and deem it a work of art. Maybe this is what the term “glorious mess” was actually meant to summarize. But really, the “artist” apparently woke up one morning with a great hangover and took a one-eyed, painful look at her room and thought that what little she could remember of the night before had been so amazing that she wanted desperately to let everyone know. So rather than taking the proverbial selfie to encapsulate and distribute this grand reminiscence, she rings up her likely drunken “agent” and says, “I’ve just had a glorious epiphany. You need to call the Tate and have them put my craphole bedroom on display.” How does this actually happen? How does someone pay $4.4 million dollars for a used bedroom? Just so you can look at it? Look at it?! I’ve been trying to unload some bunk beds for close to a year with no luck and for way less than 4.4 million dollars. Well hopefully whoever had the final bid will keep the mess in Great Britain. Please don’t bring it to the U.S. I hope we have a little more pride than that, than to display our messes and stained laundry to the public. Please keep in mind that I’ve posted the above photo and this link, not to in any way support or give more publicity to the whole kardashian-level debacle, but so that you can look upon this “art”, as I did, with mouth agape and a look of disbelief on your face (you’ll know what I’m talking about). There’s also a short interview with the “artist” herself. Supposedly this “piece” that she must have spent many painstaking hours and days creating, really marks a time in her life that is past. Really? That’s deep. I continue to sit here and shake my head in astonishment. I’m not completely sheltered and naïve. I know there are super weird sculptures and paintings and carvings and creations out there that are considered art. So I think that what gets my goat here is that this “piece” wasn’t created by any kind of talent or working process. The artist had no idea she was creating anything – because she wasn’t creating anything. It’s a mess, plain and simple. A mess that came about from her “tumultuous personal life”. In other words, she got around and partied a lot. Therefore she wasn’t making any money. And she chose to do this instead of picking up a paintbrush and working to create something awe-inspiring. All I’m inspired to do is get out the disinfectant. Now really, who has the number to Christie’s auction house? I’ve got some bunk beds to sell.
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7/7/2014 04:34:11 am
So that's what we're doing wrong. We aren't looking at our teenagers rooms' with an artistic eye. My daughter continually tells me that she's an artist, it's supposed to be messy. I guess I'll have to get her an agent. Yeah Right! The person who paid $4.4 million for this "art" should be more ashamed of themselves than the person who created it. To me, they show less sense.
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7/7/2014 04:38:43 am
I couldn't get to the story by clicking on the above photo. Here is a link to the story. http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/03/artist-emins-messy-bed-sells-for-4-4-million/20924802/
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Thanks for the comments. There are so many other worthwhile charities that $4.4 mil could have been used for. So many Veterans, Children's Charities, Homeless would have benefited greatly. And thank you for letting me know about the link mishap. I have set the link within the text rather than using the photo itself. :)
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