1/2 Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois: Women Without Secrets - Secret Knowledge 

“It is not a torment to be an artist it is a privilege”, Bourgeois I said it is a luxury to have time to think deeply and express that creatively. I will do an MA in contemporary art and history with a foundation because I know I am an artist

"...it is not a torment to be an artist: it is a privilege!"

I enjoyed this video. thank you for uploading.

Art can be therapeutic and cathartic for the artist who makes it. But it can also be a bluff or illusion.

I adore Tracy Emin, and will have a great appreciation of Louise Bourgeois when I’m done watching his video, I’m sure.

Lucky for you that you met her. Must have been quite an emotional experience.

Louise I can't help adding that I love your sense of humour. The Greek people do that too. I mean smashing crockery😊

The title at 12:45 is incorrect. While Bourgeois did have a retrospective at the MoMA in 1982, she was not the first woman artist to. Georgia O'Keeffe was the first woman artist to have a retrospective at the MoMa in 1946.

....Louise was right, an artist may be tormented, but by accepting that life he/she is privileged !!...

💖🎀💖 Wonderful and lovely what a fantastic pairing~

You can see why it's so hard to be an artist AT ALL in any era reading all the horrific, judgemental comments here. One has to have such self-belief and foot-thick skin to be able to weather all the bullshit thrown at you. Even when you're successful, the shit flies thick and fast. Like her work or not, respect her ability to make a living out of what she loves. End of story.

Great Tracy!

Anyone know the music at the beginning of the video?

Does anyone know the music at 9:07?

Fantastic post, doe's anyone know what this piece of music is? x

The first sculpture with the weights to me is something about weighing the soul against the truth of the weight of a feather ???

Wie heißt die Musik am Anfang der Doku?

a very sensitive person suffering soul with a lot of love and kindness in her inside ❤🙏

10:24..this is insane. who does she think she is?

With the death of her son a few years earlier it seems to me that the Typtich for a Red Room is an emotional response to that, no?

Bourgeois comes across as a very bitter angry person

To think that British art critics and museum curators practically spit on Jack Vettriano, yet how they always hail Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst as if they were the second coming of Georgia O'Keeffe and Francis Bacon is just absurd to me. I guess one can just blame Marcel Duchamp for all this and that other no-talent hack, Jeff Koons.

@9:07 He got a red Willie

This is SHOCKING I DIDNT KNOW THIS WENT ON 😬🏄🍼🤖🐼🍯🚴🤓

12:51

6:51 podesta bros art at home

It is a bad fortune to be a male artist in UK while Tracy is in charge where is the male tormented artist from women they have disappear

louise was the best

Poor Tracey. How wonderful she believes herself to be. Louise Bourgeois’s stuff looks like art school output from the seventies.

Bourgeois and Emin are not in the same league, Emin has no mastery of materials, not even a rudimentary grasp

all that torture Lighten up..It’s the art of deception Grovelling crap. She could have been an astronaut 😱

Her figures look like jeffrey dahmers victims

A play of art politics really Tracy has no talent she just got a lucky break

This is the only time the name "Tracy Emin" has been associated with good art! 😄 They only chose Emin for the documentary to make Bourgeois look less ugly!

Obviously this is not art. It is "modern" art. Another word for "non" art.

Tracey... The eggs don't hang on to the womb.. they are in the ovaries which are not attached to the womb. I know its artistic expression but it loses expression (not gains it) when you mis -interpret it so grossly. Yes it is possible Bourgeois had no understanding of human anatomy but this would be awfully lazy given your description of her...ps collaborating on art kind of takes away from the whole purpose of creating art in the first place...

The only talent a modern artist has, is salesmanship.

Tracey Emin an ARTIST??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The world has gone absolutely crazy! Both these people’s art is rubbish crap, but cos someone says it’s genius then the world goes crazy and thinks it is. Wake up Tracy and take your head out of your arse! It’s all rubbish and good skilful artists are suffering cos of it. Total crazy!!!

louise bourgeois propagates a horrible outlook on life. many people that made bad traumatic experiences feel drawn to her naturally as she glorifies dark entities within a misconception of getting power over them once you make them conscious when in reality she just reinforces them, reinitiates them. her art is demonic. several of her sculptures were inspired by serial killer victims. if you dwelve into this aesthetically youre entangled into misery and in for bad surprises in your life. her art is vampiristic, it draws the energy out of you, except for when you become a energy vampire yourself.

All art is a scam. Art died in the 60's , everything since has been a copy or reflection of what has already been done. Art Historian and Philosopher A. Danto upon viewing Warhol's brillo pad art declared that art was dead. But Art had been dying for some time and no greater example was Artist Piero Manzoni's 1961 exhibition of tinned feces, Then Warhol's brillo pad, and then the last gasp of art was in the decay of the 70's. Now the Tombstone has been placed on Art by the A.I. generated Pseudomnesia: The Electrician and won the Sony Contest. A.I. now generates better art than humans. ART IS DEAD. Just because an artist uses a penis or vagina does not make it art. It is boring and amateurish and lacking imagination. ART IS DEAD.