Oh cool, they have a new location! I missed poking around after shows at the Somerville Theater.
Museum of Bad Art
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#52Honestly, most of them are still better than I could draw.
I actually thought "Blue Mushroom Man" in Poor Traits was alright, although the other "poor traits" were really weird.
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#53Consider the possibility that the artists behind these pieces were not trolling, but genuinely trying to express something, or craft something beautiful. Mocking their failures is a little bit liking making fun of a small child’s fingerpainting.
I completely agree that this stuff is ugly, much of it atrociously ugly. But it’s likely the artists knew no better, or at least could do no better. It’s also ugly to mock others — and we do know better, and we can do better.
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#54Honestly, most of them are still better than I could draw.
I was tempted to create a top-level post suggesting that they just call themselves "Museum" since "Of Bad Art" is redundant, but I figured the joke would get lost and I'd just get down-voted into oblivion. I'm fairly creative, I can draw (at one time in my life I seriously wanted to be a comic book illustrator) and I'm a musician. I appreciate that art is subjective, often difficult to do well and that technical skil…
> In 2014, it was reported that senior personnel at the National Gallery estimated that the current value of the painting is in excess of $40 million.
Sounds like the purchase worked out well for the taxpayers...
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#55What's wrong with the page? I can't select the address to copy & paste it into maps. Please don't break the web.
Oh wow, that's bullshit. I just tried to copy the address and got a little alert saying "ALERT: Content is protected !!"
Even better, you get the alert if you click too quickly on the left/right arrows in the galleries because it thinks you're trying to select text.
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#57The only one? Cafe Racer in Seattle had an excellent collection in their OBAMA room (Official Bad Art Museum of Art) :P
I’ve spent many evenings there, the owner definitely has a soft spot for clown portraits
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#58Some of these look similar to stuff I've seen in galleries purporting to display good modern art.
There's an asymmetry going on here... I think making bad art at this level is very easy. Most of it looks like things created by children (or young people) who are not very talented or still lack direction and practice. Perspective errors, hiding body parts that are difficult to draw for novices, uninteresting composition, garish colors... (making things more confusing: each of these "flaws" can be done on purpose by a decent artist, to make a statement).
I wonder what qualifies for inclusion in MOBA. Creating good art is difficult, but creating bad art is trivial.
Or maybe it's bad art that is noteworthy for external reasons, like Ecce Homo?
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#59Honestly... It's not that terrible... The comments are really harsh.
I don't understand the need to label it as bad. It's just stupid.
Lots of museums of amateur art exist around the world and don't just shit all over the artists.
Fuck you MOBA.
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#60Honestly, most of them are still better than I could draw.
I guess some genres attract worse artists than others. Most in the "Oozing My Religion" and "In The Nood" categories are truly atrocious, while some from "MOBA Zoo" are actually not that bad (including my favourite - more because of the retroactively added title than because of the work itself - "You're a Mule, Dear")...