Sentences with phrase «of unmade beds»

Up for the Turner Prize, the Tree Where David Kelly Died; Not to Mention Broken Paintings and a Woman Who Sings at Tesco Daily Mail (London); October 5, 2010; Cohen, Tamara; 700 + words Byline: Tamara Cohen JUDGING by the Turner Prize's track record of unmade beds, elephant dung and pickled... studied in Belfast and Dundee after being rejected from the Glasgow School of Art aged 23.

Britain's most notorious art prize underwent a seismic change in 1991, when entry was restricted to artists under 50, ushering in the era of unmade beds, sliced - up cows and lights flashing on and off.

After crashing at home for the last eighteen months, I'm reveling in the glory of unmade beds, marathon television watching, and eating dinner on the living room floor.

Modeling cards, a dvd player, a few other personal possessions are strewn on top of an unmade bed.

Liliane Tomasko's abstract paintings are «Inscapes» of everyday life — the terrain of an unmade bed, the columns of closed curtains, or the vagarious composition of scattered cushions; quotidian elements we rarely contemplate but make up the fabric of our realities.

Also, in conjunction with this exhibition, there is a special insert in the BAMPFA bi-monthly calendar: a photograph by the artist depicting the rumpled sheets and pillows of an unmade bed.

A man, dressed in a grey suit, sits on the edge of an unmade bed, his cuff and jacket being fussed over by two women — perhaps a maid and his wife, or his wife and older daughter.

It consists of an unmade bed, surrounded by the artist's pants, contraceptive pills and condoms, all looking a bit used.

(Martin Creed) • An installation of an unmade bed complete with used condoms and tampons.

It consists of an unmade bed, surrounded by the artist's pants, contraceptive pills and condoms...

Turner prize exhibits have included: a 2 - hour film of the artist (Mark Wallinger) wandering aimlessly around the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, dressed in a bear suit; a dead sheep in formaldehyde (Damian Hirst); an installation of a white room with a single light bulb blinking on and off (Martin Creed); an installation of an unmade bed complete with used condoms and tampons (Tracy Emin).

You saw my very brave posting of my unmade bed after 4 of us slept there and then jumped up and went shopping... Hey... that's REAL life, don't ya know!!

And, I don't have the confidence in my version of the unmade bed look.

I like the look of the unmade bed and have done that on occasion but it seems to be more work than just throwing the covers up over the bed so I don't use it much.

I loved the look that I saw in one of Tracy Porters design book of an unmade bed.

Not exact matches

So I don't leave my bed unmade and I have instilled the practice in my son of making his bed.

When the beds are still unmade at five in the afternoon, the firstborn wants attention, and the baby's having a good end - of - the - day cry, the last thing a new mom or dad wants to do is make a meal.

You notice a pile of clothes in one corner, an unmade bed in the other, and a floor in desperate need of a vacuum.

But when the beds are still unmade at 5 in the afternoon and the baby's having a good end - of - the - day cry, the last thing a new mom or dad wants to do is cook.

It's not just the baskets of clean laundry stacked in my living room the past week or the pile of dirty dishes on my countertop or my chronically unmade bed that makes me unsure about using Skype and other webcam services.

When the beds are still unmade at five in the afternoon and the baby's having a good end - of - the - day cry, the last thing a new mom or dad wants to do is make a meal.

I have some of the wide legged slacks that I love, but could not think how to wear without feeling like an unmade bed.

I sent this photo (please disregard my unmade bed and lack of accessories in the photo...) to my friend prior to going out to see if this outfit was appropriate — she's my personal fashion consultant;) We both think that leggings are okay as pants if the top you're wearing covers your booty.

The crash - pads of Paris» Latin Quarter, the unmade beds in which to steal a few hours of sleep and a few moments of sex, the caches to pack and hide weapons, the grey East German apartments, the posh hotel rooms, the coffee - shops, the parking structures, the airfield tarmacs, the little cars, the back exits, the streets with their swallowing anonymity...

Unmade Beds — This film by Alexis Dos Santos comes dangerously close to obnoxiousness, following as it does a pair of hipster immigrant kids as they try to sort out and get going with their lives.

The bed was unmade, the curtains half drawn, the carpet almost invisible under trails of clothing.

In Liliane Tomasko's latest abstract paintings her examination of domesticity, such as the unmade bed, has become more urgent and fragmented, perhaps in accordance with the times.

Young British artists once rocked the world with a volley of pickled animal cadavers, unmade beds and flicking light switches.

In the world of diamond encrusted skulls and unmade beds that is contemporary art, few people are as influenced by pop music as Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller — the artist who managed to combine acid house and brass bands.

Emin, famously, made the Turner Prize shortlist with her unmade bed, which was strewn with the detritus of an unhappy life — including, as the Saatchi Gallery website says:

«I don't see how getting out of bed and leaving the bed unmade and putting it on show and saying that's worth, I don't know # 31,000... I don't believe it, I think it's a con.»

Other works that convey this idea include Book and Stack of Books as they might symbolize a favorite book read during the childhood or adolescent years, and Room depicting a child's messy bedroom with open, overflowing drawers and unmade beds.

«These works are idealised, romantic, dangerous and sensual — an outsider's view of boys» japes in the stuffy unmade bed of British academia.»

From «Unmade Beds» nominated for the Turner Prize to the artist's latest revelation announcing she has married an ancient rock in France, Tracey Emin is still able to raise an eyebrow, even if only in that sort of Michael Jackson kind of way.

Upon entering the room, and seeing the unmade, «roughed - up» bed, abandoned pieces of clothing and underwear, and what looked like blood stains and other secretions, one can immediately recall «My Bed» by the British artist Tracey Emin, placed at the Tate, London in 1999 and shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Her ascendancy started when she displayed her unmade bed as part of her nomination for the Turner Prize.

Tracey Emin (b. 1963) exhibited My Bed (1998, Saatchi collection), consisting of her own unmade bed with sweat - stained sheets, and other highly personal items such as stained underwear.

With no pickled sharks, unmade beds or bizarre installations allowed, it is seen as the more traditional art world's latest challenge to the values of the often controversial GBP 25,000 Turner Prize.

REVIEW TURNER PRIZE EXHIBITION Ebrington, Derry / Londonderry A DEAD shark in formaldehyde, a dirty, unmade bed, and blobs of elephant dung.

Championing real art over the unmade beds and pickled animals of the Turner Prize modern art competition, almost 10,000 of you sent in your stunning, traditional canvases.

Her piece — titled My Bed, literally her unmade, stained bed along with a used condom, panties, and cigarette containers — took on a life of its own, with two other artists engaging in a half - naked pillow fight atop it inside a Tate gallery (Charles Saatchi ultimately bought it for # 150,000).

The hullabaloo over Tracey Emin's unmade bed - which became an instant icon of popular culture - further inflamed feelings, especially when a protest by two Chinese artists who jumped up and down on it only brought yet more publicity for the woman who has supplanted Turner himself as Margate's most famous export.

In 1999, two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on Tracey Emin's installation My Bed, a work consisting of the artist's own unmade bed, at the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize, in an unauthorised art intervention.

However the appointment of the artist is somewhat controversial: most famous for the works Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever sleepy with), and My Bed (her unmade bed, surrounded by grimy detritus), Emin is not your typical fine arts academician — and perhaps an odd choice of a professor of drawing.

Emin, who enjoyed a succès de scandal two decades back with her unmade bed and air of general disrepair, is a bit of a grande dame herself these days.

People love to hate the Turner prize, and there is inevitably some kind of talking point, whether that is Martin Creed winning for turning a light on and off, Tracey Emin submitting her unmade bed, or Chris Ofili spattering elephant dung on his canvases.

Having studied recent contenders for the Turner Prize, such as Tracey Emin's unmade bed, a photograph of Concorde and a lengthy film of policemen standing still, Mr Saunders believes that his vehicles are also eligible.

From Carl Andre's infamous «Tate Bricks» in the 1970s (just a pile of bricks, in case you don't remember) through Tracey Emin's unmade bed to Martin Creed's Turner Prize - winning The Lights Going On and Off in 2001, Britain's premier modern art gallery has thrived by igniting a glow of righteous indignation in the belly of middle England.

Love them or loathe them, Emin's «unmade bed» and Hirst's «dead shark» and, to a slightly lesser degree, Martin Creed's «lights going on and off» (none of the works had these actual titles) went down in British folklore.

Examples include: My Bed (1999, Saatchi Collection), by Tracey Emin (b. 1963), which consisted of her own unmade bed complete with stained sheets, slippers, stained underwear and other personal detritus; The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), comprising a glass tank containing a shark preserved in formaldehyde, by Damien Hirst (b. 1965).