Take a look at these pieces of art work, some or all of which you might have seen before.
Write down your thoughts about each one. Try to answer the following questions:
• What do you think was the artist’s intent?
• What does the image make you feel? Does it create any questions or conflicts in your mind?
• Why do you think the artist has chosen to work in this way?
• Is this art?
You might want to do some background research, but make some preliminary notes based on the works themselves first before attempting to find out more about them.

The pieces are:

A My Bed, Tracey Emin
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_my_bed.htm

B Convergence, Jackson Pollock
www.kaliweb.com/jacksonpollock/images/art/convergence.jpg

C Hell, Jake and Dinos Chapman
http://lpbrull.home.xs4all.nl/digipage/digipage/HELL/hell_overview.htm

D Bram Stoker’s Chair, Sam Taylor-Wood
www.chairblog.eu/2010/08/10/bram-stokers-chair-series-by-sam-taylor-wood/

E Cremaster, Mathew Barney
www.cremaster.net/#

Write a short review (no more than 250 words) of each work and its relevance to your practice (if any) in your learning log or blog. Return to this exercise later in the course to see if your thoughts are the same of if your position and your practice have changed.