A tour of the Museum of Bad Art

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  • Опубліковано 8 бер 2014
  • Museums are believed to house art's best masterpieces thoughtfully composed by the most talented of people. That's why a Massachusetts gallery that specializes in bad art is gaining traction. Bill Geist visited the Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, Mass., and took a look at their priceless collection.

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  • @brucejohnwayne7783
    @brucejohnwayne7783 8 років тому +1466

    I think some of the paintings are pretty good

    • @redsyko7505
      @redsyko7505 8 років тому +10

      yeah

    • @svenlittlecross
      @svenlittlecross 8 років тому +14

      +Bruce John Wayne thats the point

    • @svenlittlecross
      @svenlittlecross 8 років тому +27

      +svenlittlecross apart from "theres a fucking human being creating this stuff for intimate and honest reason", quality next to that is irrelevant

    • @gasparucciox9706
      @gasparucciox9706 6 років тому +1

      me too

    • @xcp4518
      @xcp4518 6 років тому +19

      Well executed but awful concepts

  • @converse1crystal
    @converse1crystal 8 років тому +821

    I find it hilarious how they blur out paintings of nipples....

    • @Mastermind12358
      @Mastermind12358 6 років тому +13

      But forgot the one at 4:18

    • @Lulu-qp6oh
      @Lulu-qp6oh 6 років тому +3

      UA-cam policy..?

    • @mingakinsgibayuxds7542
      @mingakinsgibayuxds7542 6 років тому

      Free the nipples activist

    • @werefucked5227
      @werefucked5227 6 років тому

      Mastermind12358 it's time to fap

    • @cornbreadloverrr
      @cornbreadloverrr 6 років тому

      I find it hilarious when women say "I find it hilarious..." and then say something that is quite the opposite of funny.
      I also find it hilarious that you care so much.
      I also find it hilarious that my comment is ironic.

  • @BibsZL
    @BibsZL 10 років тому +542

    Needs more deviantART Sonic OC section...

  • @14freckles14
    @14freckles14 9 років тому +841

    A few of these aren't that bad tbh XD

    • @scaredy-cat4404
      @scaredy-cat4404 8 років тому +5

      +14freckles14 3:09 i want that one

    • @franskel9647
      @franskel9647 4 роки тому +1

      1:44 is my personal favorite

    • @antmilklover1241
      @antmilklover1241 4 роки тому

      True

    • @en1909s9iah
      @en1909s9iah 3 роки тому +1

      I feel they are bad, but they are also pretty original and their have their own 'spirit'. You can tell that it's not a random selection.

  • @aysekalin6799
    @aysekalin6799 4 роки тому +28

    i applaud everyone who’s art is on that museum. Even though their art is considered bad, at least they did something and tried. That is so precious.

  • @pambie7222
    @pambie7222 9 років тому +456

    they seriously had to censor,, it's art holy shit

    • @pleasekillme3215
      @pleasekillme3215 7 років тому +17

      Pambie yes, but if it goes against youtubes guidelines, then they have to censor it.

    • @TheClimbingBronyOldColt
      @TheClimbingBronyOldColt 6 років тому +34

      My impression of UA-cam: _"Viulence, guuuuud, nipples, baaaaaad!"_

    • @blue_cameron
      @blue_cameron 6 років тому +6

      Pleasekillme I don't think it's against UA-cam guidelines.

    • @lidorgod
      @lidorgod 6 років тому

      Maybe the nipples were swastikas

    • @myfragilelilac
      @myfragilelilac 4 роки тому

      I felt like. People have seen worse.

  • @Mureirza
    @Mureirza 8 років тому +505

    "Few works meet the museums low standards."
    LOL

    • @lindasonnier9407
      @lindasonnier9407 8 років тому +4

      where my kpop people at

    • @styggia8
      @styggia8 8 років тому

      I have find my people.

    • @styggia8
      @styggia8 8 років тому

      I have find my people.

    • @styggia8
      @styggia8 8 років тому

      I have find my kind of people.

    • @ashbylaws1445
      @ashbylaws1445 8 років тому +2

      ayyylmao kpop

  • @FoxElliott
    @FoxElliott 7 років тому +447

    Some of these are better than modern art

    • @TheClimbingBronyOldColt
      @TheClimbingBronyOldColt 6 років тому +27

      You dare compare the nonsense that is contemporary art, to these masterpieces? Shame on you!

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 6 років тому +7

      Elliott all of them are as good as modern art and wayyyyyyy better than contemporary or post- modern "art".

    • @RCWest
      @RCWest 6 років тому

      Ikr XD

    • @Micho55
      @Micho55 6 років тому +5

      maybe if any of you had a shred of knowledge on modern art you would post comments a little less generic

    • @goldenknight4310
      @goldenknight4310 6 років тому +4

      Mysllaw M. Well I can see where he is coming from. Popular art (mainly contemporary or modern) looks the same and if you ask me it looks Stupid

  • @ashleycasey2093
    @ashleycasey2093 9 років тому +178

    Am I the only one who would buy this art?

    • @brucejohnwayne7783
      @brucejohnwayne7783 8 років тому +25

      +Ashley Casey I think they are being sarcastic, and dissing the snobs of New York and what not by calling this "bad art". Many of the paintings express a deeper meaning, which main stream modern community was supposed to, but failed at delivering.

    • @aaronduvalin
      @aaronduvalin 6 років тому +6

      please do!! help your local art economy!

    • @theremharth
      @theremharth 6 років тому +2

      The very last one before the the end of the video was prime. (A sun with a face).

  • @WilliamRivera1968
    @WilliamRivera1968 7 років тому +505

    I prefer these paintings one thousand times over the pretentious modern conceptual art.

    • @WilliamRivera1968
      @WilliamRivera1968 7 років тому +44

      Larry Myers Your hemorroyds must be bleeding bad!

    • @pooyah666
      @pooyah666 6 років тому +20

      modern and conceptual art are from two different time periods, "modern conceptual art" is a misnomer. modern is pre ~1965, conceptual is after and until today.

    • @pennynikkel9542
      @pennynikkel9542 6 років тому

      Larry Myers lmaaaoooo

    • @ashmckinlay1402
      @ashmckinlay1402 6 років тому +1

      Museum of bad art? Surely they mean the Tate modern.

    • @RCWest
      @RCWest 6 років тому +1

      pooyah666 ohh no wonder 1960s art sucks! Didn't know that was also mondern art.

  • @yourworstnightmare2303
    @yourworstnightmare2303 8 років тому +84

    I really loved those pieces of art and I'm an artist myself! Lots of those are rookie mistakes and with training could be fixed. But tbh, I really liked a lot of them and would love to have them. The effort and sincereity are what matters.

    • @karlabritfeld7104
      @karlabritfeld7104 Рік тому

      I agree. I have been painting abstract art for ten years. I didn't think these were so bad!

  • @mystikskullz2583
    @mystikskullz2583 8 років тому +168

    She should print out DeviantArt vore art screenshots and pin them up.

  • @MrLaggy2000
    @MrLaggy2000 6 років тому +34

    Some of this art is bad, yes, but other pieces have a uniqueness that is actually quite expressive. I thought a couple of the pieces were good enough to non-ironically hang in a home or even in an exhibit of lesser known artists. Although non of the art shows mastery of the canvas, they all show more promise than the "art" that plasters the walls of today's modern art museums. Money and prestige have ruined the art world and has made it inaccessible to those who aren't money launderers or pretentious enough to like objectively bad art. This exhibit is a breath of fresh air and I commend the curator as well as the artists who have made it possible

  • @ineffablemars
    @ineffablemars 6 років тому +66

    Oof, as an “artist” this make me feel pretty insecure

    • @mista4life849
      @mista4life849 3 роки тому

      As long as the art you make makes you happy it dosen't matter if it's "good" or "bad" what matters is that you had fun creating it .

  • @yellinghayfire4935
    @yellinghayfire4935 6 років тому +35

    About half of them are actually good. Especially 0:53 and 3:23. I would downright buy Lucy in the Fields.

    • @weirdguy4948
      @weirdguy4948 5 років тому

      Yelling Hayfire the one at 3:23 is terrible

  • @XY90K
    @XY90K 8 років тому +121

    "I've seen worse at contemporary art museums." I can't even tell the difference between contemporary art and this, at least it's not canned shit and heaps of garbage.

  • @nachoolo
    @nachoolo 8 років тому +267

    still better than modern art

    • @downhell666
      @downhell666 8 років тому +4

      +nachoolo YES

    • @shina7418
      @shina7418 6 років тому +12

      josh71111 Nope, modern art is an overpriced piece of shat.

    • @rockstar2PL
      @rockstar2PL 6 років тому +1

      you can buy sme of that abstract art in IKEA for 15 bucks

    • @RCWest
      @RCWest 6 років тому

      josh71111 No it's definitely not beautiful.

    • @CAT-2323
      @CAT-2323 3 роки тому

      *post modern art

  • @spikespiegel6587
    @spikespiegel6587 6 років тому +5

    I really like the idea behind it all. "We're celebrating an artist's right to fail", its a beautiful irony. Because every artist starts from somewhere, and they celebrate it by exhibiting their works to give appreciation on their path to the arts

  • @sylendraws1249
    @sylendraws1249 6 років тому +731

    We already have museums of bad art they're called modern art museums

    • @roxylamour1119
      @roxylamour1119 6 років тому +58

      Modern art is easily worse.

    • @johnberkley6942
      @johnberkley6942 6 років тому +37

      Yeah. The only difference is one group of people are trying to be good and the other group aren't. Way harsh. I'm just going to wash my mouth out with soap.

    • @juinsibal4401
      @juinsibal4401 6 років тому +8

      Are the artist in modern art dumb or are we dumb that just cant understand the meaning of the painting?

    • @LiamHaleMcCarty
      @LiamHaleMcCarty 6 років тому +3

      Haha so true. Check out fArtism.org

    • @anaparker6976
      @anaparker6976 6 років тому +2

      wtf i see you everywhere

  • @RobertF-
    @RobertF- 8 років тому +27

    One day they might discover that one of these paintings is actually done by a famous abstract expressionist artist and is a lost work of theirs worth millions of dollars. A lot of these look like famous painters like Matisse or Willem de Kooning.
    But seriously though, I don't think anything could really be called "bad" art. She said it was about giving the artists the right to fail. I don't think any of these were "failures". Putting aside the whole topic of making money from art, or how much art sells for and all that, putting that aside completely for a moment, I don't think anyone can say a painting is "bad" or not.
    Of course, it is an objective thing of whether a painting looks like a photo or really realistic, or not. Either a painting looks really realistic and accurate, or it doesn't. But just because it doesn't, it seems silly to say that it's "bad" art. Again, completely putting aside the whole thing of making money or making a living from your art, the only thing that matters about art is whether the person felt joy when they were making their art, whether they felt like they were expressing something deep within them. Whether they felt just a little bit more alive while they were painting. If someone paints a painting that looks really realistic, and really skillful and accurate and all that, but it was complete drudgery for them to make it, they didn't have any fun making it and they just wanted to finish it and get it over with so they could show it off to someone, that is a failure in my opinion. That is completely against the whole point of what art is supposed to be about.
    Art is supposed to make the artist feel just a little bit more alive while they are creating it. That is the marker of good or bad art. Not what anyone else thinks about it. But how much joy and how much more it made you feel alive when you created it. Art is more about the artist than it is about the audience who may or may not see the art itself.. Art is not about the finished product that may either get praise from some and criticism from others. That's not important. Art is more about the process itself of creating art, than it is about the finished product. I got the sense from a lot of these paintings that the people who painted them were having a blast when they made them, ha ha. And that's all that really matters at the end of the day, at the end of the road.
    Everybody should paint a picture every now and then, and not worry about whether or not it is "bad" art and will get into a museum like this one day. All that matters is that someone paint a picture and have a little fun. What someone else thinks about the painting is really just secondary. That's just opinions and pretentiousness.

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 6 років тому +2

      Robert so basically by your definition art is selfish.

  • @cheerubebayonettaholopaine2638
    @cheerubebayonettaholopaine2638 6 років тому +135

    #freeartnipples

  • @bmona7550
    @bmona7550 6 років тому +22

    I love how you're allowed to touch or get close to the paintings. It's makes this museum less stuffy. Ironically artists like Picasso at some point had their paintings turned down by museums so the rejected artists created an alternative art event exhibit of rejected art next to the museum. The funny part is, most of the people during the event went to their exhibit rather than the "real acceptible" museums 😂. Serves them right!

    • @pattycake5842
      @pattycake5842 Рік тому

      Touching messes up the painting I'm surprised they got to touch the painting

  • @elvisnotcostello
    @elvisnotcostello 6 років тому +33

    finally a place to get my art into

  • @harrymunter2317
    @harrymunter2317 6 років тому +190

    If Picasso signed one of these paintings it would be considered a masterpiece and worth millions. Contemporary Art is sickeningly pretentious.

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 6 років тому +9

      Dan Arthur I agree, I agree, I agree, oh do I ever agree with you, soooooooo much.

    • @Jesei1211
      @Jesei1211 6 років тому +3

      Harry Munter There is a reason why he became so famous. When he was 5 he finished one of his father's painting and with 18 he won a art competition or something like that. But he wasn't interested in drawing life like so he created his own style.

    • @warriorcatskid003
      @warriorcatskid003 6 років тому +1

      Mood

    • @cuac5869
      @cuac5869 6 років тому +7

      Picasso is a master in the world of art not only because he created cubism but he was a great artist before he developed his own style and that is why he became famous. He was recognize first a as a great painter and Lester also known for abstract. So don’t say anything about him if you don’t know

    • @millisam5273
      @millisam5273 6 років тому +1

      how is picasso contemporary ? lmaooo know your onions before stating your opinion love

  • @leirawhitehart1236
    @leirawhitehart1236 6 років тому +34

    I actually like the man with the poofy disco hat.

  • @SniperRed0092
    @SniperRed0092 10 років тому +25

    A lot of this stuff is good.

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 8 років тому +17

    thing is, if some of these paintings had been done by established artists working a scuzzy anti- aesthetic - they could be worth a lot of money. But that's the trouble with being unestablished - first you gotta get your degree and have a few shows before your bad art is taken seriously.

  • @WankersCramp69
    @WankersCramp69 9 років тому +62

    Still better than most contemporary art.

  • @brenna8446
    @brenna8446 8 років тому +16

    So it's a family refrigerator?

  • @Inseut
    @Inseut 6 років тому +2

    I'm gonna send them all my drawings. Oh my god i loved it so much

  • @chelly3452
    @chelly3452 8 років тому +39

    Idk if theyre the only museum with "bad art", the MoMA has some pretty questionable things

  • @Xturnia
    @Xturnia 5 років тому +4

    Imagine getting called up: "Hey, we want to display your art in the museum of bad art."

  • @angelheart2722
    @angelheart2722 7 років тому +30

    All of those are better than "modern art"

  • @sssvvv1747
    @sssvvv1747 6 років тому +12

    I liked almost all of these?

  • @djork6518
    @djork6518 6 років тому +5

    “found where?” “in the trash” 😭😭😭

  • @orphansparrow2
    @orphansparrow2 6 років тому +1

    This makes me so happy. I love this lady - "Celebrating the artist's right to fail." :)

  • @quietman71
    @quietman71 6 років тому +2

    0:59 "I've seen worse at contemporary art museums!" Dang, you beat me to it.

  • @jenniemikasa576
    @jenniemikasa576 6 років тому +5

    the one at 4:20 is really beautiful in my opinion

  • @kamenridernephilim
    @kamenridernephilim 7 років тому +4

    The one with the fellow in the coconut I find both funny and rather well done. The Pals one with the monkey and clown looks like a book cover for Curious George..

  • @kamenridernephilim
    @kamenridernephilim 7 років тому +3

    3:22 Makes me think of my grandmother and her love for flowers.

  • @scumbag576
    @scumbag576 6 років тому +1

    I hate CBS Sunday morning because my mom watches it every Sunday and it reminds me that I have to wake up early the next day and go out in public and be a human being

  • @capjoartist1200
    @capjoartist1200 Рік тому

    The fantastic museum is a paradise, I love ❤️ the beautiful and amazing Artworks ❤❤❤

  • @fabrizio483
    @fabrizio483 7 років тому +4

    The painting at 0:09 of a lady with a green vest sitting on a red chair is quite lovely. It doesn't belong there. I'd love to buy it, actually.

  • @rustyalcorta3643
    @rustyalcorta3643 6 років тому +3

    I love it. It reminds me of my art. Soon as I get money I'll set up a museum for Houston's bad art community.

  • @shamaynygren8465
    @shamaynygren8465 Місяць тому

    My daughter sent me a link of another video by this creator! This stuff is absolutely what the kids and I do all the time! This is hilarious!!!

  • @californiabobby3858
    @californiabobby3858 7 років тому +1

    some of these are actually amazing and deserve to be in museums

  • @hanniarachma6005
    @hanniarachma6005 6 років тому +4

    Welllll... the one at 4:21 looks cool to me.

  • @OdinComposer
    @OdinComposer 6 років тому +7

    Have they seen deviant art?

  • @beseeingyou6
    @beseeingyou6 7 років тому +3

    I absolutely love this

  • @kledynk6591
    @kledynk6591 6 років тому +1

    I love this idea so much!

  • @BuniSlug
    @BuniSlug 7 років тому +7

    The quality of the art is subjective. It all depends on the viewer's eye. Are they saying abstract and minimalistic works such as those of Picasso are bad art?

    • @ngyufeng6205
      @ngyufeng6205 4 роки тому

      i think what they meant by bad art is art that seems to intend to do something, art that one can see the artist's intention, but fails to deliver it and ends up being awkward

  • @saskiaahaaha3464
    @saskiaahaaha3464 6 років тому +2

    I'd abasolutley want to have that piece at 4:20 .... noteably, it is the picture at 4:20 I like most. I see what u did there.

  • @boosweets9242
    @boosweets9242 6 років тому

    Honestly, I would visit this museum everyday. I enjoy looking at artists work.

  • @barahkaafi
    @barahkaafi 2 роки тому +1

    That coconut bathtub one was good. :)

  • @NikkiG1134
    @NikkiG1134 4 роки тому

    These people dont understand how brilliant some of these pieces are.

  • @Time_To_SHINE_9799
    @Time_To_SHINE_9799 3 роки тому

    These type of places will inspire a hidden artist in a person

  • @nikolasrpak6187
    @nikolasrpak6187 4 роки тому +1

    This cures my cancer.

  • @melaniereeder2349
    @melaniereeder2349 Рік тому

    I love this so much.

  • @a-bird-lover
    @a-bird-lover 6 років тому +4

    Oh man how do I send them my masterpieces of narnia on a lobster, backwards centaur, and fish legs

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 2 роки тому +1

    Looks a lot better than most modern art I’ve seen. At least they didn’t just toss paint on a canvass!

  • @ratihkusuma2745
    @ratihkusuma2745 3 роки тому +2

    Still better than so called contemporary art

  • @adrianghandtchi1562
    @adrianghandtchi1562 7 років тому +3

    the Madonna and child one was my favorite

  • @AssasinSniperman
    @AssasinSniperman 6 років тому +1

    All of these art is way better than what i can do.

  • @kaylowwf.i1946
    @kaylowwf.i1946 6 років тому +2

    3:30 that looks like the lunch lady from Recess.

  • @shina7418
    @shina7418 6 років тому +1

    Better than modern art.

  • @Raphael3032
    @Raphael3032 6 років тому +8

    *insert "modern" art critique from people that don't even know the difference between modern and contemporary"

  • @Liusila
    @Liusila 6 років тому

    Love it. All much better than anything I could make.

  • @bhavanima
    @bhavanima 10 років тому

    Great concept Museum Of Bad Art!! ,,,can't wait to see my donation Green Wet Suit Couple Romancing the Swamp!!

  • @DerrickIbalai
    @DerrickIbalai Рік тому

    This is actually really nice. I'd love to visit

  • @melaniereeder2349
    @melaniereeder2349 Рік тому

    The art is not good art, but the display of the art is good art.

  • @maddy1486
    @maddy1486 5 років тому +2

    The one with the lighthouse didn't seem so bad!

  • @nothingbutfleurs
    @nothingbutfleurs 2 роки тому

    honestly i love all of them

  • @MrIrons-og3rg
    @MrIrons-og3rg 11 місяців тому

    Thank you. I need my own Art gallery here in Jamaica

  • @huskypack6811
    @huskypack6811 6 років тому +1

    Wow finally a place where my art can be appreciated

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 4 роки тому

    This is actually better than "Art" for sale displayed in hospitals.

  • @GlassesnMouthplates
    @GlassesnMouthplates 3 роки тому +1

    "Whopping $13 offered for return of prized Bad painting."
    I like how every event unfold around MOBA sounds like a satirical comedy movie.

  • @The-Blue-Knight
    @The-Blue-Knight 6 років тому +2

    better then the blank white canvas currently hanging at the art institute of Chicago. LOL

  • @carrie4492
    @carrie4492 8 років тому +17

    At the Detroit Institute of Art they have on display a giant red canvice at least 10 feet tall with a white stripe down the middle. If that is something that qualities to be in a museum then the artwork in this video deserves to be in a museum as well. Most of the art shown wasn't that bad.

    • @raliremmrossend6320
      @raliremmrossend6320 5 років тому +1

      Might be an omage to The White Stripes, they are a band from Detroit and that's their aesthetic and color pallet pretty much.

  • @JebemTiZivot
    @JebemTiZivot 2 роки тому +1

    Better than most of the modern contemporary garbage in museums nowadays🤷‍♂️

  • @drawslashplay7384
    @drawslashplay7384 6 років тому

    Finally! A gallery I can apply to!

  • @vOddy75
    @vOddy75 7 років тому +33

    The man in the puffy disco hat was way too good.
    Anyway, I fail to see the point of this museum. Any modern art museum is more than bad enough.

  • @jeanalisson
    @jeanalisson 6 років тому +4

    4:20 nobody can tell me that's a bad painting by any stretch

  • @zxzxxzxz3303
    @zxzxxzxz3303 5 років тому +1

    Still better than modern art

  • @mcayh1588
    @mcayh1588 6 років тому

    I have one of these in my hometown, too. It’s called the walls of the art corridor in my high school.

  • @ng3106
    @ng3106 7 років тому

    the sun face in the end really got me

  • @myopinionwhileIcanstillhaveone
    @myopinionwhileIcanstillhaveone 8 років тому

    this is so awesome

  • @bi-bibabyblue9649
    @bi-bibabyblue9649 5 років тому

    How do I submit every drawing/painting I’ve ever made?
    Genuine question.

  • @danibrent3068
    @danibrent3068 6 років тому

    Finally, a museum for me

  • @chatterbox6664
    @chatterbox6664 Рік тому

    Better than any modern art museum.

  • @johnsmallweed
    @johnsmallweed 8 років тому +1

    Love it

  • @Sebastian37s
    @Sebastian37s 6 років тому +2

    I can't see any Picasso piece. Curious

  • @tjappaschuur4732
    @tjappaschuur4732 5 років тому

    amazing what they're doing!

  • @pelleemil9115
    @pelleemil9115 6 років тому

    A lot of them are really good

  • @Kementeri
    @Kementeri 6 років тому

    The miniature dude in coconut is actually highkey amazing and I want that painting

  • @DaveTerrasidio
    @DaveTerrasidio 6 років тому

    amazing!

  • @trulyinfamous
    @trulyinfamous 6 років тому

    I could easily add to this collection.

  • @alphajava761
    @alphajava761 2 роки тому

    I love it. I've been an artist since childhood. And I love art like this. There's an artist that buys thrift store art and makes it worse, I can't remember his name though.

  • @matiaspalma964
    @matiaspalma964 6 років тому

    these look a hundred times better than modern art right now which is so recognized around the globe

  • @stevemorton4593
    @stevemorton4593 3 роки тому

    Big Fan of Bad Art. I would buy a paint by number kit of an Art piece displayed at the museum.

  • @shutter-chan
    @shutter-chan 5 років тому +1

    I would gladly buy something like this over those modern art.