Posted on 03/21/2010 5:40:31 PM PDT by Daffynition
Want to know more about the Museum of Bad Art? Of course you do!
A little MOBA history
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory.
MOBA was founded in the fall of 1993 and presented its first show in March 1994. The response was overwhelming. Since then, MOBA's collection and ambitions have grown exponentially.
Initially, MOBA was housed in the basement of a private home in Boston. This meager exhibition space limited the museum to being a regional cultural resource for the New England area.
As the only museum dedicated to bringing the worst of art to the widest of audiences we felt morally compelled to explore new, more creative ways of bringing this priceless collection of quality bad art to a global audience. Another Boston-area cultural institution, Dedham Community Theatre, generously allowed MOBA the use of their basement. Our first permanent gallery is now conveniently located just outside the men’s room in a 1927 movie theatre. The ambience created such a convivial atmosphere, that when we went looking for a second location, the only place that was up to our quality standards was another theatre basement. The Somerville Theater in Davis Square, Somerville MA is now our second gallery.
To this end, we now exhibit online (you found it!), publish an email newsletter called MOBA News, have a virtual gallery available on CD-ROM, and offer the popular book Museum of Bad Art : Art Too Bad To Be Ignored.
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PORTRAITURE #10
Peter the Kitty Oil on board by Mrs. Jackson 10.5"x7" Stirring in its portayal of feline angst. Is Peter hungry or contemplating his place in a hungry world? The artist has evoked both hopelessness and glee with his irrational use of negative space. |
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For several years, Peter the Kitty was retired from public exhibition due to its obvious age and fraility. (At left, notice paint peeled away in chest area.) Our very dear friends at the Main Street Museum in Hartford Village, Vermont, have stablilized this painting and we are now confident that there will be no further deterioration
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"sunday on the pot with george."
i'd buy that for a dollar! ;) (not)
If it’s on velvet, we could be talkin’ big money! ;)
I think it's the way the eyes follow you......angrily.
Bravo!
A local Denver uppity bedroom community - Evergreen - regularly subjects us to their artsy-fartsy tastes. What I wouldn’t give...
All of the fawning Obama art. Too lazy to get it now. =)
>> I’d actually hang Peter the Kitty on my wall
Yeah, me too - the feet are all nicely lined up. I like order.
With the reflections underneath, like he's sitting on a cold glass floor. I call that realism.
Writing My Life's Symphony
The artist portrays the unresolved priorities which she (surely this piece represents the feminine quandary) must clarify in order to write the symphony of her life’s ideal relationship. Hence, she places an amorphous cloud of verbiage on the staff of her life. Numerous small conventional heart symbols on the cloud represent romance, but are dominated by a large dollar symbol representing security, a “plus” sign, and a large anatomical heart surmounted by the bold word "feeling" to represent passion. Significantly, a rent in the latter allows the words “that’s my problem” to peek through.
The cloud of confusion is being drawn by the artist’s pencil, starkly revealing her understanding that she alone is responsible for the resolution to be made. The frustration she feels as she wrestles with the difficulty of simultaneously realizing all of her goals bursts out in her exclamation, “Argh!”
Touchingly, she cannot omit her pet’s paw print from this portrait of her life, albeit as a small and peripheral detail.
Interpretated by Harold McFarland
Oh! Oh! I want it (can you make O’s ears a bit larger, though?)
Oh, come on, that one’s not bad considering what kind of crap the artist had for subject matter. It’s not easy to make pure despotism look so innocent and harmlessly friendly.
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Ears are way too small on that one. Again though, the artist succeeds in making evil look kinda cute.
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