Throughly masked up and to the Royal Academy for the resurrected Emin/Munch show. Verdict: Munch was a better painter, but Tracey has better titles. (Because You Kept Touching Me vs Seated Female Nude, no contest.)
In the accompanying free sheet, there’s an interview with the Queen of Margate in which she opines:
The thing with painting is that you’d never go to a fortune teller and be happy if they told you something you already knew. That’s the same with painting. When you’re painting, you don’t want to do a painting, you don’t want to do a painting you’ve already done, you want to do a painting you’ve never seen before.
Which is fair enough from the point of view of the artist, the creator. Unfortunately, most of the consumers just want more of the same.
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