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CitizenUpwrite
03-05-2003, 01:43 PM
What's your favorite piece of bad art?

I know I've seen a lot of LiveJournals that qualify for Most Impressively Horrifying and Ever-Growing Piece of Bad Art (((yes I mean you)))...:crackhead

Any kind, though visual arts are what I'm after here.

Here's my current fave:

http://www.glyphs.com/moba/graphics/horse-s.jpg
"Think Again"
( 377 x 450 x 256 )
Acrylic on Canvas by Unknown
Acquired By: Scott Wilson from trash

This disturbing work "makes an offer you can't refuse". The chilling, matter-of-fact manner in which the subject presents the severed head to us is a poignant reminder of just how numb we have become. The understated violence implicit in the scene speaks volumes on our own desensitization, our society's reflexive use of force, and the artists inability to deal with the hindquarters of the animal.

(taken from one of the best bad art sites around, MOBA. (http://www.glyphs.com/moba))

Also, the Bad Art Guild of Arizona and myself will pay top dollar for bad art. Pictures of bad art you don't want to part with work for our CD-ROM gallery, too. We're especially looking for sculpture and found art. Submissions or leads to dingy thrift stores with phat macrame owls, etc. are always appreciated. Work the PM.

Stay tuned for Phoenix's first Bad Art Exhibition, a bunch of bad art, good djs, martinis and lowbrow snobbery. Proceeds from all art sold will go to Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona (http://www.freeartsaz.org/)

Cleansweep
03-05-2003, 04:58 PM
http://sherpaguides.com/bios/fla_pics/rosalitas.jpg

CitizenUpwrite
03-05-2003, 05:33 PM
ILL5UN (4:30:14 PM): i would have loved sittin eatin a bean and cheese
ILL5UN (4:30:18 PM): staring at that wall

cpud
03-05-2003, 05:43 PM
http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/ipba/news/images/SportStatue-football.jpg

Katie/007
03-05-2003, 06:18 PM
That jesus stuff was on Conan before. That shit was fUnnny!!

serota
03-05-2003, 06:27 PM
yah ^^. puddy, you're bitin' the conan steeze!!!

i despise anything by keith haring.

serota
03-05-2003, 06:31 PM
Originally posted by CitizenUpwrite



Here's my current fave:

http://www.glyphs.com/moba/graphics/horse-s.jpg
"Think Again"
( 377 x 450 x 256 )
Acrylic on Canvas by Unknown
Acquired By: Scott Wilson from trash



is that latoya jackson??

hardcore junkie
03-05-2003, 07:09 PM
god IS a soccer player!:slayer :slayer :slayer

cpud
03-05-2003, 07:47 PM
Originally posted by serota
yah ^^. puddy, you're bitin' the conan steeze!!!

i despise anything by keith haring.

i didnt bite shiz, i didnt know Conan O'Brien alrady had that on his show :(

CitizenUpwrite
03-05-2003, 08:17 PM
Originally posted by serota
is that latoya jackson??

Hmm-mm. Lisa Bonet.

viXen
03-06-2003, 06:44 AM
YUCK! Speaking of bad art....this picture has ALWAYS given me the creeps.

http://www.globalgallery.com/images/ny-3488.jpg

Dub-U-Eff
03-09-2003, 04:50 AM
Furrys in space!!!!!
http://www.furrysinspace.com/images/commission009-1024x768.jpg

Danielle V
03-09-2003, 08:03 PM
im quite a big fan of anything kitch.

and speaking of truly "bad art"- i dont mind american gothic, and i certainly don't mind keith haring (him :love, barry mcgee :love, and jean micheal basquiat :love ) I do mind thomas kinkade or any artist with galleries in malls nationwide. mall art. Im also not a big fan of most pro-feminist performance art (guerilla grrls etc...), self-portraits and anything recent by cindy sherman or dutch still lifes from the 17th and 18th centuries.

oooh, also i really like that signature from citizen upright. Immanuel Kant...nice. I really find him and Hume and that whole asethetic theory thing very interesting.

-d

Danielle V
03-09-2003, 09:20 PM
aesthetic theory, der. :wes