Wednesday, November 14, 2007

The Museum of Bad Art

Okay, I have visited this site three times now, and each time collapsed in fits of giggles. It must be shared.

The Museum of Bad Art features a variety of carefully-chosen works, lovingly displayed in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre in Boston, "just outside the men's room".

Its mandate: "the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms".

Some notable samples from its extensive collection:

"Lucy in the Field with Flowers"

Oil on canvas by Unknown
24" × 30"
Acquired from trash in Boston

Commentary: "As with all great art, extended viewing reveals endless layers of mysteries: What is Norman Mailer's head doing on an innocent grandma's body, and are those crows or F-16's skimming the hills?"

"Dog"

Acrylic on canvas by Unknown
Donated by Elizabeth and Sorn Poeckle, Copenhagen, Denmark

Commentary: "A remarkable fusion of ski resort and wolf puppy — stoical in his yellow-eyed silence, frozen beneath the ice-capped peak, Dog elequently [sic] challenges the viewer to rexamine [sic] old concepts of landscape."

"Sunday on the Pot With George"

Acrylic on canvas by Unknown
22" × 37"
Donated by Jim Schulman

"He was a friend of mine"

By Jack Owen
18" × 24"
Watercolor

I don't know what this says about me, but some of them I kind of like.

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