She is considered second to Damien Hirst among the YBAs in terms of notoriety among the general public when her piece My Bed, a part of 1999’s Turner Prize exhibition that consisted of her unmade bed was complete with used condoms and blood-stained underwear. The Tracey Emin website says that she was born in 1963 and is known as an English artist or one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) doing autobiographical art. Tracey Emin’s The Last Thing I Said to You was Don’t Leave Me Here II (2000) is one of the more personal and intimate images about the artist’s work as this is a photo showing her naked taken from behind while sitting in a squat position in a corner of a hut. I have chosen two female British artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas as artists who use their bodies to visually represent their expression of art. The movements had influenced the forthright use of bodies, emotions, sexuality, and political consciousness as subjects of the self-image, or as Lubell (1982) put it, vehicles for autobiographical and commentating expression. Likewise, art movements have provided for images as common as the former standard three-quarter profile head and shoulder view, or as obscure and radical as photographs, photocopied pieces, body art, or even performances. Self-images become diverse depending on the artist’s perceptions of the “self”. Lubell, as early as 1982 has proposed that the changing definitions of art and art forms expanded the media and formats in which self-portraits are executed. In addition, domestic life and childbearing responsibilities added weight to travel for art study (Lubell, 1982).
The lack of institutional training made many unable to paint the multi-figure altarpieces or commissions necessary for patronage and continued exercise, if not existence. Historically, Lubell (1982, p 12) said that women pursued portraiture or self-portraiture because they could do so without the academic life that formal and systematized drawing and other training which has been denied of them due to gender. It will discuss the works chosen as well as how and why these two artists use the medium of self-imaging and how making an image of the self differs from making a portrait of another individual.
This paper, looking at the work of two artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas will try to explore the issue of making images of the self, self-portraiture.
As the material world grows in humongous ways, the forms of art also evolved and multiplied to encompass various mediums, ways, and means to exploit expression to the fullest. Art has been defined in various ways and always about ‘expression’, deliberate or otherwise.
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