Outsider Art?

[matlock]

I'm gonna buy this and make a skateboard out of it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CHARLES-BUKOWSKI-PORTRAIT-Folk-Outsider-Art-Painting_W0QQitemZ220156366461QQihZ012QQcategoryZ20158QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Bukfan]

:eek: Good grief! it's horrible!

 

[ROC]

Yeah... that sorta looks like Kris Kristofferson with Jimmy Durante's nose.


http://www.kriskristofferson.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante

Bad.

 

[mjp]

Outsider used to mean something very specific as far as art is concerned, but it's been co-opted and used by people who have studied art in school and sell over-the-couch-decorations on eBay. Check me out, with my eBay PowerSeller account and MBA -- I'm outside of society, motherfuckers! Jesus. Even if there is no schooling, self-taught does not equal outsider.

What a sad joke all these mooing art and design school cows are. You would have to send a thousand of them through a meat grinder to get a hamburger's worth of creativity, talent or soul.

And it wouldn't even be a good hamburger. It would be like a gas station hamburger.

Ha. I should not talk about art. It gets me too wound up.

 

[Bukfan]

Right! Even Mickey Mouse has more soul...:D

 

[ROC]

You would have to send a thousand of them through a meat grinder to get a hamburger's worth of creativity, talent or soul.

I must remember that one :D

 

[Onions]

Sadly, the world is full of 'artists' pruducing very little 'art'. Ebay is a great outlet for talentless fuckwits

 

[bogthing]

Folks, you might want to check out MOBA, there are some masterpieces over there:


http://www.museumofbadart.org/

 

[Rekrab]

It doesn't look a thing like Bukowski. Captures none of his essence. Souless crap would be my estimate, or is that too unkind? Anyway, a waste of money.