And another thing…

If its a Clanger, why is it wearing flippers?

I can do some modern art, in small doses. We went to Tate Modern last year and loved it.

However, the piece that strikes me as taking the michael is one called White on Seven Panels by Robert Rauschenberg. It’s as it says on the tin.

So, nip to B and Q and buy some emulsion and you too can make a fortune:-)

I expect it’s just another record of the types she has been to bed with.

Ned Railways? Trains calling at Paisley St. James, no doubt.

Mixing politics and the Clangers: I wrote this when Oliver Postgate died:

http://politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2008/12/13/what-if-froglet-offered-iron-chicken-the-exchequer/

There’s a link to the rare episode “Vote for Froglet” which you might enjoy if you’re a fan.

I wish I thought you were joking, I have a seven year old that can produce better art than this. kinell

One of the uncanny qualities of an artistic genius is originality. Art, music, the written word, it is that singular authorship which sets it apart from all other works in the same discipline. Tracey Emin obviously does not possess this unexplainable gift. A creative person, and there are many of them, cannot help but be influenced by things which they have loved from the moment they were able to digest, focus and respond to what they heard and saw. It is not unusual for an artist, musician or writer to unconciously duplicate something. I would venture that Tracey Emin loved the Clangers.

You can fool some of the people……..

If only it were drawn holding an identity card so that we could verify what it really is.

It would be £20bn well spent.

I wish I posessed the sort of talent that could persuade people to pay £90k for this sort of thing. Only the finest of snake oil salesmen could get people to cough up such huge sums for the stuff they produce. Imagine engineering yourself into a position whereby your slightest doodle or a few sheets chucked on the ground can be deemed to be so valuable. That’s where the talent lies.

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The above is a piece that I conceived after seeing Tracey Emin’s inspirational “piglet”. My piece has no title because I don’t want its fluid interpretability to be compromised by my imposition on viewers but privately I interpret it as “Why?”

I expect the bidding to open at £40,000…..

Not to detract from anything you’ve written, but I think it is a piglet, but it is a copy too. Surely of the original Piglet from Milne’s Winnie the Pooh.

What?

Some one paid £90K for that?

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No, really?

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Sorry . . . (Ok pull yourself together Silent) . . .After all , Tracy Emetic is a recognised modern artiste . . . AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….OH OH HELP !. . . ….AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh? Sorry Tom,

I appear to have laughed’ myself right off the page. ;o)

That picture is a weird mixture of the cute and the sinister, as if it’s painted in blood. Maybe that’s the effect Emin was after. It’s interesting, but 90 grand???!!!! Trace should definitely pay some kind of royalty to the Postgate estate.

Didn’t Picasso used to pay his restaurant bills by doodling on a napkin?

One definition of a work of art could be that it is difficult or better still, impossible, to emulate.

A white painted wall, pile of bricks, light going on and off…or the squiggle above… seem uncommonly achievable to me.

If, however, one believes that art is anything defined as that by the producer, then we are living in a positively Florentine paradise.

So what is a “piglet” supposed to look like?

Tom,

Complete O/T but would be interested in your thoughts on the whole Chris Bryant/Ben Bradshaw topic today

There’s another connection. Our Lady of the Soiled Bedsheet grew up here in Thanet, which is also where the late, great Oliver Postgate lived, worked and died.

BTW, since his demise, we’ve voted the lovely Brenda Blethyn, who resides in Ramsgate, as our Greatest Living Thanetian.