MUSEUM OF BAD ART

Updated 04-May-2020.

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THEATER | “Master Works” at the BLB: Bad art, good plays: If you haven’t been to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) lately, that’s understandable: it’s in the basement of a movie theater in Massachusetts.

The Museum of Bad Art’s Michael Frank

Museum of Bad Art (Gone), Dedham, Massachusetts: You once could run your taste buds over these uniquely bad artworks hung outside of a basement men’s room. But then the men’s room was turned into a screening room, and the museum collection was dispersed to other locations.

Everything but fine art – Taipei Times: Sixty paintings from the Boston-based Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) are currently on display at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park. Created not by acclaimed artists but ordinary people, these works boast oddities, absurdities or simply ugliness — qualities that are equally as eye-catching as exquisite fine art.
The museum numbers more than 600 pieces in its permanent collection, many of them purchased from thrift shops, yard sales and secondhand stores. Part of the collection was donated by its creators, while some were retrieved from rubbish bins.
To be accepted by MOBA, the work must be original, have had no prior

The Good, the Bad: and the Very, Very Ugly: The Museum of Bad Art: a worthwhile stop on the World Weird Web.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the museum of bad art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum . it’s permanent collection includes over 700 pieces of “art too bad to be ignored” the museum was founded in 1994 after antique dealer Scott Wilson showed a the attention the Museum Of Bad Art receives is part of a wider trend of museums displaying “the best bad art” the museum has been criticized for being anti-art, but the founders deny this . MOBA Marie Jackson co-founder: “we are here to celebrate an artist’s right to fail, gloriously” Reilly and his wife, Marie Jackson, held a party in their basement to exhibit the collection . they facetiously Reilly and Jackson’s small home in west Roxbury, Massachusetts, became too much . they created the virtual museum of bad art, a CD-ROM with a cast of 95 people . virtual MOBA allowed visitors to in MOBA’s early days, the museum hosted traveling shows . in an exhibition titled “Awash in Bad Art”, 18 pieces of art were covered in shrink wrap . “we didn’t put any watercolors in there in 2001, “Buck Naked—Nothing But Nudes” featured all of the MOBA nudes hung in a local spa . in 2003, “Freaks of Nature” focused on landscape artwork “gone a second gallery opened in 2008 at the Somerville Theatre in somerville, Massachusetts . the collection was placed near both the women’s and men’s restrooms . pieces from MOBA’s collection have been on studies in digestion sold for $152.53 to the rose art museum . in 1996, the painting Eileen vanished from MOBA . the work remained unrecovered for many years . a heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum occurred in 1990 . a purported thief demanded a $5,000 ransom for the painting; no ransom was paid, but it was returned anyway . nine out of ten pieces don’t get in because they’re not bad enough, says Marie Jackson . a lack of artistic skill is not essential for a work to be included . montserrat college of art’s exhibition is a demonstration of “purity of intent is valid” the museum dedicated a show to “relentless creativity” in an exhibition titled “I Just Can’t Stop” Dean Nimmer, a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, noted the parallels between the Museum Of Bad Art’s standards and those of other institutions . MOBA does not collect art created by children, or art traditionally perceived as a work of art accepted into MOBA is a celebration of the artist’s enthusiasm . Marie Jackson: “if we’re making fun of something, it’s the art community, not the artists” Scott Wilson: ” curators insist that artists whose works are selected by MOBA enjoy the attention . the museum gains another work of art, and the artist receives exposure in a museum . many of the works in MOBA are donated, often mob’s policy was not to spend more than $6.50 on any piece . more recently, twice and even three times that amount has been paid for an exceptional work . the museum itself usually benefits from most auctions . “lucy in the field with flowers” remains a favorite with the news media and patrons . as the first work acquired by the museum, Lucy is “a painting so powerful it commands its own preservation for posterity” Lawlor snorted Coca-Cola from her nose in astonishment . she recognized it as her grandmother, Anna Lally Keane . the painting hung in her aunt’s house for many author Amy Levin suggests that George is a pastiche of Seurat’s painting . one critic speculates the pointillist style in George may have been acquired “from watching too much TV” mari newman’s bone-juggling dog in hula skirt inspired this description by MOBA . newman, a professional artist from Minneapolis, describes how the image came into being . mob artists are unable to render hands or feet, and mask them by extending figures’ arms off canvas . artists can paint with their eyes shut, as skies are often painted in any color but blue . artist: “it artist: MOBA artists apply perspective inconsistently, either from one painting to the next, or within a single work . bad artists favor “mixed media”: if in doubt, they glue feathers, glitter, or the “Guest Interpretator’s Collection” is an invitation for MOBA’s visitors to include their thoughts on compelling artworks . a contest decides the best analysis and interpretations are added as each contest ends . the the plays were based on the MOBA pieces Mana Lisa, Invasion of the Office Zombies, My Left Foot, Bone-Juggling Dog in Hula Skirt, Gina’s Demons visitors and staff laugh out loud at MOBA displays . “somehow MOBA frees kids to laugh and point, to have their own opinions” teachers bring high school art students to MOBA, then to MFA . the museum of bad art embodies a social trend he calls “annoyism” ugliness is more striking than beauty, and it forces people to think more deeply about what is wrong or misplaced . “if I didn’t have a sign on the door, people might not think it’s so bad,” gallery director says . author: MOBA’s success reflects a trend in modern art among artists and audiences the arrival of abstraction and modern art in the early 20th century made art appreciation more esoteric . the museum of bad art is in vogue, as a movement that rejects anti-sentimentalism the researchers showed respondents images from MOBA and new york’s museum of modern art . they asked them to rate each painting on a scale with two ends representing “Very Attractive” and “Verily Unattractive artists such as Paul Gauguin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Georges-Pierre Seurat were shown to participants . in each pair, an item in the painting was shifted vertically or horizontally, and respondents ISBN 978-1-4027-5437-1. 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