The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art. It is a network of four art museums: Tate Britain, London , Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (founded 1988), Tate St Ives, St Ives, Cornwall (founded 1993) and Tate Modern, London (founded 2000), with a gallery and staged at Tate Britain Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the work of J.M.W. Turner. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised art Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics award. Although it represents all media, and painters have also won the prize, it has become associated primarily with conceptual art Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition.
As of 2004, the monetary award was established at £40,000. There have been different sponsors, including Channel 4 Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, television and Gordon's Gin. The prize is awarded by a distinguished celebrity: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono Yoko Ono , (born February 18, 1933), is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author and peace activist, also known for her marriage to John Lennon and her groundbreaking work as an avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker.
It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reputed to be the richest living artist to date. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector and a dishevelled bed by Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). Controversy has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister (Kim Howells Kim Howells is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Pontypridd since 1989, and has held a number of ministerial positions within the Government) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance. After performing as a member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album, Madonna, in 1983 on Sire) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota (about the purchase of a trustee's work).
The event has also regularly attracted demonstrations, notably the K Foundation The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF income. Between 1993 and 1995, they spent this money in a number of ways, including on a series of Situationist-inspired press and the Stuckists 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 opposition to conceptual art, as well as alternative prizes to assert different artistic values.
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The Turner Prize if only the million starlings could enter. Then they were gone, disappearing as quickly as they had appeared, falling down into the reed ...
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Sun, 10 May 2009 17:51:00 GM
This year's . Turner Prize. apparently features old fashioned stuff like paintings. Since 1991 it was "decided to restrict the . Prize. to artists under fifty, so that younger artists just setting out weren't pitted against artists at the ...
