Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
Automan
As Wikipedia tells us:Automan is an American superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for 12 episodes (although 13 were made) on ABC between 1983 and 1984. It consciously emulates the visual stylistics of the Walt Disney Pictures live-action film Tron, in the context of a superhero TV series.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 14, 2025 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Motor Vehicles, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Technology, Computers, Television, 1980s
Lorraine O’Grady, RIP
Her Wikipedia page.
In the early 1980s, O'Grady created the persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, who invaded art openings wearing a gown and a cape made of 180 pairs of white gloves,[10] first giving away flowers, then beating herself with a white studded whip, which she often referred to as, "the whip-that-made-the-plantations-move".[10] Whilst doing this she would often shout in protest poems that railed against a segregated art world that excluded black individuals from the world of mainstream art, and which she perceived as not looking beyond a small circle of friends. Her first performance as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire was in 1980 at the Linda Goode Bryant's Just Above Midtown gallery in Tribeca.[11]
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 14, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Jade Montserrat
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 04, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Twenty-first Century
1000 Cigarettes
Plexiglas book. Pages are laminated with collage elements embedded. Collage elements comprised of debris from smoking 50 packages, a total of 1000, of Camel cigarettes including cigarette butts, match-book covers, burnt matches, ashes, and smoke. Book is Coptic bound with various colored threads. The front cover of the book is laser-etched with the title; the back cover is laser-etched with the name of the press. Dimensions: Book 29 x 22.5 x 6 cm. Container/box 32 x 25.5 x 9 cm. Unique, one-of-a-kind.
The box cover and internal tray are made by Mark Wagner. The cover is collaged from 1/4-inch slivers cut from packages of Camel cigarettes. These cut slivers are reconstructed to form the image of the camel and desert landscape as they appear on the package of Camel cigarettes.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 24, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Books, Smoking and Tobacco, Twenty-first Century
“Snail’s Gallop”
More on the artist here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 05, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Asia, Twenty-first Century
Rebecca Horn, RIP
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 17, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Performance Art, Europe, Twentieth Century
“Dispatch from Solitude #1: Walking the Unknown Path”
The artist's homepage.Social Distancing & Art Episode 3 from Ogden Contemporary Arts on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 16, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Hunting, Trapping and Other Wilderness Activities, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 31, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Television, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1970s, Comedians
“Dude” on Broadway
One of the most spectacular theatrical bombs. Read the full story here.
And also here, with more pix.
The Wikipedia page.
I am going to include some quotes from the 1972 NYT article on this massive failure, but the whole piece is behind their paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 19, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Theater and Stage, 1970s
The Reluctant Dragon
Truly bizarre mishmosh of live-action and cartoons, an early experiment from Disney.The film's Wikipedia page.
Modern critics have pointed out that the dragon's mannerisms can easily be interpreted as gay. Sean Griffin notes "the delight and acceptance of an effeminate male," saying, "The dragon sports long emotive eyelashes and contains not an aggressive bone in his body, with the dragon prancing and pirouetting throughout the story... There is no mistaking how the film makes fun of the dragon's mincing manner and prissy pretentions. Yet, the film also makes it quite clear that the dragon does not believe in fighting, and the film doesn't specifically make fun of him for that... Just as in Ferdinand the Bull, The Reluctant Dragon presents an easily read gay character under the guise of fantasy and shows characters accepting him as he is."
The sound quality is a bit off in this posting, but otherwise watchable for strangeness.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 14, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Cartoons, 1940s
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