Museum Of Bad Art Gives A Home To Forlorn Paintings : NPR

Museum Of Bad Art Gives A Home To Forlorn Paintings : NPR

There is something endlessly charming (and often compelling) about really bad art, and bad art is celebrated at the appropriately named Museum of Bad Art. Usually, but not always, made by people with little or no formal art training, bad art can start out as an expression of love or joy and just end up, well, bad. But sometimes when the art is really bad it can become great. I've been known to trawl thrift stores and garage sales sometimes getting lucky and finding a child portrait looking like "Chuckie" or a way-too-cute animal rendering that is endearing but a little scary. And who doesn't get a little excited when they see a portrait of a clown gone horribly wrong?

So-called "bad art" is fun. It could also be another person's "primitive" or "outsider" or "folk" art, but that's another post. 

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