When I walked into this room I was automatically drawn towards this particular piece. Presenting a warm attraction to it, possibly this being to do with the colour pallet consisting of warm pastel pinks, and egg shell blues, and flowers trickled across the england flag, enhancing a sense of security and home. Tracey Emins work emits gender division and political themes throughout the piece. Emin used an old pink wool blanket cut in two and intersected with a cotton extension in the same shade of pink, as the basis for a landscape of text.
The work holds a lot of pattern and confusion of jumbled text which is very different to the appearance as I described earlier, as to how the text portrays an aggression of some sought to maybe the subconsciousness of how the artist Tracey was feeling about a particular subject - " It also seems to be about women that Tracey Emin feels are guilty of aggressive acts you'd normally associate with men." (Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
12:01AM BST 08 Sep 2004).
When I saw and read the piece It almost reminded me of a 1950s domestic wife's kitchen cloth, suggesting their oppression during the war, giving off a Imposed Impression of themselves in the way she or feels others (women) live their lives, but deep down there Is an aggression and anxiety inside of them. The art piece is almost an OxyMoron - 'Pretty Ugly'. This is one of the reasons why I found the art work Interesting as the concept behind It had a double meaning, the piece itself was a contradiction as It was using a very feminine textile but at the same time was conveying a political view.
Exhibition Review: Tate Modern. 23/09/13
Bibliography: By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
12:01AM BST 08 Sep 2004, The Telegraph.
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