My Pretty Little Art Career: Exhibition Analysis

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The exhibition ‘My Pretty Little Art Career’ is exhibiting in The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 10 December-11 May. In this exhibition, Grayson Perry(born 1860) shows his opinion on society with a sense of humor by different types of his decorative artworks including ceramics,sculptures,drawings,prints and tapestries. Grayson Perry is a very famous British artist and Turner Prize recipient in the field of contemporary art. The main purpose of the exhibition is to provide Australian viewers with opportunities to experience outstanding artworks and to attract more tourists to Australia. The author aims to present his consideration to the relationship between British social class and aesthetic taste which affects the identity of individuals. This consideration allows viewers to consider the components which attributes to their taste and …show more content…
The whole tapestries of The Vanity of Small Differences (2012) illustrates life of Tim Rakewell from born to die which represents his topic of social mobility and the role of taste on three different social classes, the working class, middle class and upper class.

The first set of The Vanity of Small Differences (2012), The Adoration of the Cage Fighters(2012) illustrates the infant of Tim Rakewell reaching for his mother`s smart phone and his mother was prepared for attending a party with her friends. Tom`s mother and his mother`s friends constitute the largest part of the space of this artwork. In the middle of these two parts is two people kneeling on the ground with a Sourland A.F.C football shirt and a miner`s lamp in their hands which represent mining and shipyards. Tom`s grand mother is sitting backward of

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