"at Nanjing College of Art, and gained a BA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1989, and his MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 1991. JJ Xi trained at the Central Academy of Applied Arts in Beijing and later at Goldsmiths College. They started working as a performance duo in 1999 with ""Two Artists Jump on Tracey Emin’s Bed"" (1999). Their best-known performance occurred at 12.58 p.m. on 25 October 1999, when they jumped on Tracey Emin's installation ""My Bed"", a work incorporating memorabilia on and around an unmade bed, in the Turner Prize at"
"her exhibit is ""My Bed"", her dishevelled bed, surrounded by detritus such as condoms, blood-stained knickers, bottles and her bedroom slippers. 2001: Martin Creed wins the Turner Prize for ""The Lights Going On and Off"", an empty room where the lights go on and off. 2005: Simon Starling wins the Turner Prize for ""Shedboatshed"", a wooden shed which he had turned into a boat, floated down the Rhine and turned back into a shed again. In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists (YBAs) after the 1988 ""Freeze"" show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of"
"attention regarding the apparently trivial and possibly unhygienic elements of the installation, such as yellow stains on the bedsheets, condoms, empty cigarette packets, and a pair of knickers with menstrual stains. The bed was presented as it had been when she had stayed in it for several days, feeling suicidal because of relationship difficulties. Two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped onto the bed with bare torsos to ""improve"" the work, which they thought had not gone far enough. In July 1999 at the height of Emin's Turner Prize fame, she created a number of monoprint drawings"
"and swore before walking out. From the interview: ""Are they really real people in England watching this programme now, they really watching, really watching it?... They're 25 minutes behind us, think about that... I'm leaving now, I wanna be with my friends, I wanna be with my mum. I'm gonna phone her, and she's going to be embarrassed about this conversation, this is live and I don't care. I don't give a fuck about it."" Two years later, in 1999, Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize herself and exhibited ""My Bed"" at the Tate Gallery. There was considerable media"
"vodka bottles, pill packets and used condoms."" (""My Bed"" did not receive the Turner that year, but sold at auction for £2.2 million (US$3.1M) in 2014, after which it appeared on loan to the Tate Gallery.) Sooke categorized Emin's work between 2008 and 2014 as being ""explicitly confessional,"" and in the ""tradition of outsider art,"" and describes her as ""one of only a handful of British artists who can also claim genuine celebrity,"" but at least some of her work as being ""insufficiently stimulating,"" visually. Reporting on Emin's widely covered five-week exhibition of gouache nudes, bronze sculptures, and textile and"
"double bed in a dishevelled state with stained sheets, surrounded by detritus such as soiled underwear, condoms, slippers and empty drink bottles. Two artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped onto the bed, stripped to their underwear, and had a pillow fight. Police detained the two, who called their performance ""Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed"". Other nominees included Steven Pippin and collaborative sibling duo Jane and Louise Wilson. The prize was won by Wolfgang Tillmans. Other entries included a large painting by Glenn Brown based very closely on a science fiction illustration published some years previously. Michael"
"Bed"", in the Turner Prize at Tate Britain. The pair had various words written on their bodies, including ""Anti-Stuckism"". Their explanation is that they were opposed to the Stuckists, who are anti-performance art. According to Fiachra Gibbons of ""The Guardian"", the event ""will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement."" Stuckist demonstrations Stuckist demonstrations since 2000 have been a key part of the Stuckist art group's activities and have succeeded in giving them a high-profile both in Britain and abroad. Their primary agenda is the promotion of painting and"
"Hufkens in Brussels. In 2017, Emin and Lehmann Maupin ended their working relationship. Charles Saatchi, who was best known as the most high-profile, high-spending collector of contemporary British art, bought ""My Bed"" (1998) for £150,000 ($248,000) from Lehmann Maupin's ""Every Part of Me's Bleeding,"" the exhibition that won the artist a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. In 2013, on the occasion of a Christie's London sale that raised a total of 3.1 million pounds ($5 million) in aid of the Saatchi Gallery's policy of free entry, ""To Meet My Past"" (2002) sold for $778,900, establishing a new record for"
"the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore repeatedly in a state of drunkenness on a live discussion programme called ""The Death of Painting"" on British television. In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled ""Every Part of Me's Bleeding"". Later that year, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited ""My Bed"" – a readymade installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed, in which she had spent several weeks drinking, smoking, eating, sleeping and having sexual intercourse while undergoing a period"
"guards. The artists were detained but no further action was taken. Prior to its Tate Gallery showing, the work had appeared elsewhere, including Japan, where there were variant surroundings, including at one stage a hangman's noose hanging over the bed. This was not present when it was displayed at the Tate. Craig Brown wrote a satirical piece about ""My Bed"" for ""Private Eye"" entitled ""My Turd"". Emin's former boyfriend, former Stuckist artist Billy Childish, stated that he also had an old bed of hers in the shed which he would make available for £20,000. ""My Bed"" was bought by Charles"
"collages of Kurt Schwitters) or by its recognizability as a consumer icon (as in the sculptures of Haim Steinbach). The context into which it is placed is also a highly relevant factor. The idea of dignifying commonplace objects in this way was originally a shocking challenge to the accepted distinction between what was considered ""art"" as opposed to ""not art"". Although it may now be accepted in the art world as a viable practice, it continues to arouse questioning, as with the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize exhibition of Tracey Emin's ""My Bed"", which consisted literally of a transposition of her"
"Telegraph"" obtained emails between the Tate and judge Lynn Barber, which revealed that the judges had been sent a list of shows by artists too late to be able to see them and instead were being supplied with catalogues and photographs of work. More controversy ensued when Barber wrote in ""The Observer"" about her troubles as a judge, even asking, ""Is it all a fix?"", a comment subsequently displayed on a Stuckist demonstration placard, much to her chagrin. The Judges were: The winner of the £25,000 Prize was Mark Wallinger. His display at the Turner Prize show was ""Sleeper"", a"
"Saatchi for £150,000 and displayed as part of the first exhibition when the Saatchi Gallery opened its new premises at County Hall, London (which it has now vacated). Saatchi also installed the bed in a dedicated room in his own home. When it was announced, in May 2014, that the work was to be auctioned, David Maupin, Emin's dealer in New York, described the £800,000 – £1.2 million estimate as too low. When auctioned by Christie's in July 2014, the piece was sold for a little over £2.5 million. My Bed My Bed is a work by the English artist"
"line from Thomas Hardy's poem ""She, to Him"": ""Remembering mine the loss is, not the blame"". The painting was exhibited at the ICA Summer Studio exhibition in London. It is in the collection of the Tate Gallery since 1980. According to ""The Guardian"", it is ""one of the most enduringly popular images in the museum's collection"". As of 2017, it was not on display. In 2011 it was the subject of an episode in BBC's series ""Hidden Paintings of the West"". The Badminton Game The Badminton Game is a 1973 painting by the English painter David Inshaw. It was inspired"
"unmade and disheveled bed, surrounded by shed clothing and other bedroom detritus, directly from her bedroom to the Tate. In this sense the artist gives the audience time and a stage to contemplate an object. As such, found objects can prompt philosophical reflection in the observer ranging from disgust to indifference to nostalgia to empathy. As an art form, found objects tend to include the artist's output—at the very least an idea about it, i.e. the artist's designation of the object as art—which is nearly always reinforced with a title. There is usually some degree of modification of the found"
"was an all-woman shortlist, the other nominees being Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch and Cornelia Parker. In 1999, Tracey Emin gained considerable media coverage for her entry ""My Bed"", but did not win. In 2006 the prize was awarded to abstract painter, Tomma Abts. In 2001, a conference called ""Women Artists at the Millennium"" was organized at Princeton University. A book by that name was published in 2006, featuring major art historians such as Linda Nochlin analysing prominent women artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Yvonne Rainer, Bracha Ettinger, Sally Mann, Eva Hesse, Rachel Whiteread and Rosemarie Trockel. Internationally prominent contemporary artists"
"the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's record for an exhibition of work by a living artist. The large-scale exhibition included the full range of Emin's art from the rarely seen early work to the iconic ""My Bed"" (1998) and the room-sized installation ""Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made"" (1996). The show displayed her unique appliquéd blankets, paintings, sculptures, films, neons, drawings and monoprints. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was the only UK venue for the show which then went to the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga, Spain and then to the Kunstmuseum in Bern,"
"at the vile, repulsive mess that had accumulated in her room, she suddenly realised what she had created. Emin ardently defended ""My Bed"" against critics who treated it as a farce and claimed that anyone could exhibit an unmade bed. To these claims the artist retorted, ""Well, they didn't, did they? No one had ever done that before."" The artwork generated considerable media furore, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with bodily secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room, such as condoms, underwear with menstrual blood stains, other detritus, and functional, everyday objects, including"
"in the Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the collection, including the Tracey Emin work ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95"" (""the tent""), and Jake and Dinos Chapman's tableau ""Hell"". A gallery spokesman said that Saatchi was distraught at the loss: ""It is terrible. A significant part of the work in his collection has been affected."" One art insurance specialist valued the lost work at £50m. In 2004, Saatchi's recent acquisitions (including Stella Vine) were featured in ""New Blood"", a show of mostly little-known artists working in a variety of media. It received a hostile critical reception, which"
"on 29 September, the day before the show opened, when they gave out a leaflet with a ""Not wanted"" poster for Serota and button badges with the text ""The Turner Prize is crap"", although they had not yet seen the exhibition. Condemning the Tate's promotion of conceptual art and the lack of figurative painting in the show (citing Stella Vine as one painter who has been passed over), Thomson said, ""The work is not of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant exhibition in a national museum."" Demonstration material is stored in the Tate"
"Canadian funds in 2000. Sotheby's valued the collection at ₤35 million, nearly $90 million in Canadian funds. Turner's 1834 painting ""The Fountain of Indolence"" alone was estimated to be worth between $16.7 million and $25 million, and Freud's ""Hotel Bedroom"" between $5.2 million and $8.4 million in Canadian funds. This large increase in value would entail a corresponding rise in the cost to the Foundation of insuring the works, and would in turn reduce the amount the Foundation could devote to its charitable causes in England. In 2003 the Foundation, which was headed by Lord Beaverbrook's grandson Maxwell Aitken, proposed"
"glass of the artist's own urine. This caused great controversy when first exhibited. The work was sold for $277,000 in 1999, which was far beyond the estimated $20,000 – $30,000. Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Barbara DeGenevieve, and Merry Alpern, became a figure whom Senator Jesse Helms, and Senator Alfonse D'Amato, as well as other cultural conservatives, attacked for producing offensive art while others, including ""The New York Times"", defended him in the name of artistic freedom. (See the American ""culture wars"" of the 1990s). Serrano's series ""Objects of Desire"", from the early 1990s, features close-ups of"
"Woman Bathing (van Eyck) Woman Bathing (or Woman at Her Toilet, sometimes Bathsheba at Her Toilet) is a lost panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. The work is today known through two copies which diverge in important aspects; one in Antwerp and a more successful but small c 1500 panel in Harvard University's Fogg Museum, which is in poor condition. It is unique in van Eyck's known oeuvre for portraying a nude in secular setting, although there is mention in two 17th-century literary sources of other now lost but equally erotic van Eyck panels. The attribution"
"clearly referencing the Damien Hirst work (see disputes above). In a BBC2 ""Newsnight"" programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by Jeremy Paxman with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it, Thomson was displaying Stuckist paintings, while Lochore had brought along a plastic detergent bottle on a cardboard plinth. At one stage Lochore states, ""if people say it's art, it's art"". Paxman asks, ""So you can say anything is art?"" and Lochore replies, ""You could say everything is art..."" At this point Thomson, off-screen, can be heard to say, ""Is my shoe art?"" while at"
"been reconstructed, using a period bed; the woven wool fabric and silk braid for the upholstery and curtains were prepared based on a full tester bed at Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire. The bed linen, pillows and quilt mentioned in the inventory have been recreated using items from the Historic Royal Palaces. In 1998 the Handel House Collections Trust acquired the Byrne Collection, a large collection of several hundred objects connected with Handel. These include: Around the same time the trust also bought two paintings of Jennens (by Thomas Hudson) and the opera singer Faustina Bordoni (by Bartolomeo Nazari). The rooms at"
"Art as a bequest. A Girl Asleep A Girl Asleep, also known as A Woman Asleep, A Woman Asleep at Table, and A Maid Asleep, is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, 1657. It is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and may not be lent elsewhere under the terms of the donor's bequest. According to Liedtke, the presence of the dog would have alluded to ""the sort of impromptu relationships canine suitors strike up on the street."" The man and the dog were replaced with a mirror on a far wall, suggesting"
"artist to receive the Turner Prize. Howard Hodgkin is awarded the Turner Prize for ""A Small Thing But My Own"". Other nominees included Terry Atkinson, sculptor Tony Cragg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Milena Kalinovska and painting/printing artist John Walker. The prize was awarded by celebrity presenter Sir Richard Attenborough. The controversial art duo Gilbert & George were awarded after a previous nomination in 1984. Other nominees included Art & Language (collaborative group composed of Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden), sculpture/printing artist Victor Burgin, painter Derek Jarman, painter Stephen McKenna and sculptor Bill Woodrow. Sculpture artist Richard Deacon is awarded the prize."
"wins the Turner Prize for ""Shedboatshed"", a wooden shed which he had turned into a boat, floated down the Rhine and turned back into a shed again. The Stuckist group of artists, founded in 1999, proclaimed themselves ""pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts."" They also called it pretentious, ""unremarkable and boring"" and on July 25, 2002, in a demonstration, deposited a coffin outside the White Cube gallery, marked ""The Death of Conceptual Art"". In 2003, the Stuckism International Gallery exhibited a preserved shark under the title ""A Dead Shark Isn't Art"","
"""Work No. 79: some Blu-tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall"" (1993) and ""Work No. 88, a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball"" (1994). Creed's work ""Work No. 200: Half the air in a given space"" (1998) is a room which has half of its cubic space filled with balloons. Creed won the 2001 Turner Prize for two exhibitions, ""Martin Creed Works"" and ""Art Now: Martin Creed"" shown across England during the preceding year. His submission for the Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery was ""Work No. 227: The lights going on and"
"the artist. At another Christie's auction in 2014, ""My Bed"" was sold to White Cube founding director Jay Jopling for 2.5 million pounds, including buyer's commission, once again to benefit the Saatchi Gallery's foundation. It was estimated that the price of ""My Bed"" would sell between 800,000 and 1.2 million pounds. Before the sale, Emin said that ""what I would really love is that someone did buy it and they donated it to the Tate."" An earlier auction record, set at Christie's, London, in December 2010, was £130,000 (hammer price), paid for the appliqué blanket ""It's The Way We Think"""
"that has ever been put on canvas."" Reportedly Turner was hurt by the criticism, repeating ""soapsuds and whitewash"" over and over again, and saying, ""What would they have? I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been in it"". Ruskin commented, ""It is thus, too often, that ignorance sits in judgment on the works of genius"". More recently, art historian Alexandra Wettlaufer wrote that the painting is one of Turner's ""most famous, and most obscure, sublime depictions"". Currently in the collection of the Tate in London, it was on exhibition at the De Young Museum in San"
"his work. Some of his paintings are still on permanent display at the museum. In 1984 the Oxfordshire County Council presented his work in an exhibition at the Oxfordshire County Museum in Woodstock. His paintings are also held in national and international collections, for example at the Tate Gallery (London, UK), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, US) and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand). Turner was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. He was the eldest of three children, and had two younger sisters. His father died in 1791, and he was raised during this early part"
"The Fountain of Indolence The Fountain of Indolence is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. First exhibited in 1834, it is now in the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The painting depicts a scene described in Canto 1 of James Thomson's 1748 poem ""The Castle of Indolence"". Thus easy-rob'd, they to the fountain sped That in the middle of the court up-threw A stream, high spouting from its liquid bed, And falling back again in drizzly dew; There each deep draughts, as deep he thirsted drew; It was a"