The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)

MOBA ^ | March 21, 2010 | unknown

[Daffynition]

Lots of clickable images in the Collection

PORTRAITURE #10 Peter the Kitty Oil on board by Mrs. Jackson 10.5"x7" Acquired from Salvation Army Thrift Store, Hyde Park by Scott Wilson 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.
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

[robomatik]

"sunday on the pot with george."

i'd buy that for a dollar! ;) (not)

[Rocko]

"Lucy In the Field With Flowers" (NOT by Lennon/McCartney)

[Daffynition]

Mana Lisa by Anonymous 12" x 16" Donated by A. Schmidt, Vancouver, Canada A cross-gender interpretation of the daVinci classic.

Mana Lisa's nose strikes nimbly, offsetting the dialogue between the foreground and profoundly varnished background. Further, by deciphering this work's title, perhaps we can contribute to the growing body of Leonardo's anagrammatic discourse: MAN ALIAS, I AM NASAL, A SAIL MAN, AS ANIMAL, AM A SNAIL, MAIL NASA...

[Daffynition]

If it’s on velvet, we could be talkin’ big money! ;)

[Psycho_Bunny]

You know....I'd actually hang Peter the Kitty on my wall....there's something really cool about it.

I think it's the way the eyes follow you......angrily.

[QBFimi]

Bravo!

A local Denver uppity bedroom community - Evergreen - regularly subjects us to their artsy-fartsy tastes. What I wouldn’t give...

[BunnySlippers]

All of the fawning Obama art. Too lazy to get it now. =)

[Daffynition]

Did you see what happened when the artist came back to make another portrait of her?

[QBFimi]

>> I’d actually hang Peter the Kitty on my wall

Yeah, me too - the feet are all nicely lined up. I like order.

[Rocko]

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.

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

It's got to be deeper than that!

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

[QBFimi]

Oh! Oh! I want it (can you make O’s ears a bit larger, though?)

[Daffynition]

[piasa]

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.

[BunnySlippers]

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[piasa]

Ears are way too small on that one. Again though, the artist succeeds in making evil look kinda cute.

[BunnySlippers]

[JoeProBono]