In my international bestseller Feminism: The Ugly Truth (2012) I titled one chapter, “Are some feminists (e.g. Tracey Emin) a pain in the Arts?” In 2011 Emin was appointed a ‘Professor of Drawing’ by the Royal Academy, her total inability to draw not having been deemed a handicap.

A piece (£) in today’s Times is about Rose Wylie, 91, who is shortly to become the first British woman painter to have a show in the Royal Academy’s first floor galleries. Comments from “J Pomeroy” are representative of the comments in general:

“It’s almost beyond belief what is considered ‘art’ these days, very reminiscent of the pictures my children had painted and brought home from primary school. From whence they lived on the fridge door until the next lot.”

Wylie’s Wiki page sensibly omits to show any of her pictures, but a couple of them are visible here. If I’d been asked to guess the age of the painter, I’d have hazarded a guess at four or five years of age. I recall visiting Tate Britain many years ago, one whole room was bedecked with pictures that were similarly dire (for an adult ‘artist’). I assumed the ‘artist’ had to be a woman and I wasn’t wrong. Tate Britain would never have given that amount of wall space to a similarly talentless man – or, indeed, any wall space.

Rose Wylie’s ‘art’ is so mind-numbingly woeful, she makes Tracey Emin look like Rembrandt by comparison.

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