Get Cultured With MOBA (Museum Of Bad Art)
I’d love to be a fly-on-the-wall in meetings at the Museum of Bad Art, listening to the curators debate which artists deserve the dubious honor of being featured. According to the website, “the pieces in the MOBA collection range from the work of talented artists that have gone awry to works of exuberant, although crude, execution by artists barely in control of the brush. What they all have in common is a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent.”
The pieces are grouped together in several collections, and include quotes and analysis from museum curators and the artists themselves. Here are the collections, along with one of my favorite pieces from each of them. Enjoy(?)
Portraiture – “Sunday on the Pot with George”
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Landscapes – “Two Trees In Love”
Unseen Forces – “Inspiration”
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Unlikely Landscapes, Seascapes, and Still Life – “No Visible Means of Support”
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In The Nood – “The Better To You See, My Dear”
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Blue People – “Mama and Babe”
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Poor Traits – “Annie’s Downstairs Secret”
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Here The Symbols Crash (which I think means WTF art) - “Drilling For Eggs”
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Still not sure about the difference between good and bad art? Take a listen to Louise Reilly Sacco, the Executive Director at MOBA and you’ll become an expert in no time:
Spend the afternoon virtually wandering around the MOBA – if you’re anything like me, you’ll find a few pieces so horrible you actually end up loving them… (via @terrinakamura)
I remember spending countless hours spelling out bad words on my Lite-Brite (like ‘poop’). The artists behind the masterpieces below probably spent their time more productively.
