This just in from the Associated Press:

LONDON - Four artists have been nominated for this year's Turner Prize, awarded annually to a British artist under the age of 50.

Competing for the $50,000 prize are Mark Leckey, who uses images from "The Simpsons" TV show, the movie "Titanic" and the cartoon character Felix the Cat in his film-based installations. (See a still from one of his films below right.)

Cathy Wilkes is nominated for a work featuring a mannequin on a toilet with a bowl of dried porridge at its feet. (Another of her installations is featured at below right).

Also nominated are film and video artist Runa Islam (see a still from her film about British students in a school below left) and installation artist Goshka Macuga (see sample work at top left).

Previous winners include "Brit Art" upstarts Damien Hirst (remember the sliced up shark suspended in a tank?) and Chris Ofili (remember the elephant dung Madonna?).

This year's winner will be announced Dec. 1.

So who do you think should win?

And what do you think of their art?

Do does anyone else think they are afraid of plain old beauty?

Are traditional paintings, prints and sculpture just too old-fashioned to be considered?

Some people find this art deep and profoundly contemporary .

Others find it gimmicky and superficial. (I have to confess, I liked some of the work at the 80th annual UW student art how this spring better.)

Which side do you come down on?

Which of these four artists would you like to see shown extensively in Madison?

And what do you think the wonderful and revolutionary 19th-century British painter J.M.W. Turner would say about the prize named in his honor?

Let Art Talk know.