Bad Art, -cakes that look like steak, etc

This Cy Twombly guy's art is just pencil or crayon scribblings, the kind that kids make. I can't believe these visual atrocities sell and are collected by museums.

View Cy Twombly Prints

Cy Twombly Online

Crochet people, anatomically creative body parts -NSFW (some figures are NUDE)

(Photos are on this web page-)
Teste Touch

Teste Touch
It Is What It Does

by Jason Krugman, Stella Kim and Ben Chao

An art installation where the user's touch and the temperature of the environment makes two giant testicles retract and descend.

Teste Touch is an interactive installation that mimics the human anatomy. In the same vein as Matthew Barney's Cremaster series, our installation is based on the natural interaction between the male reproductive organs and their environment.

Teste Touch’s hanging scrotum responds to temperature by ascending or descending, highlighting the function of the cremaster muscle. Without a working cremaster muscle, the sperm can easily overheat, killing them and rendering a man sterile.

This piece demonstrates one of the main functions of the autonomous nervous system: performing crucial tasks for us without our direct intention. Although the rising and falling of the testicles is often the subject of humor and or vulgarity, it is crucial to the survival of the entire human species.

In addition, we have included a reflexive response to touch to create a more direct interaction with the user. With this project, we are affirming our love for Mother Nature and the beautiful simplicity of her designs.

I didn't see a photo of the art piece itself. But I'm thinking this is a good thing.

Mannequin on toilet vies for top British art prize

AUL MAJENDIE
May 13, 2008

LONDON — A mannequin perched on the toilet vied with a cartoon cat on Tuesday to land the Turner Prize, the controversial British award that annually sparks a heated debate about what is art.

Critics may lambaste the shortlist as pretentious claptrap but the Turner has recognized Britart stars like Damien Hirst and the exhibition attracts up to 70,000 fans a year.

Not a single painter made the shortlist for the 2008 Turner, which is dominated by filmmakers and video artists.

Mark Leckey splices together images of the Simpsons, presents clips from the Titanic movie and confesses to an obsession with cartoon star Felix The Cat.

Cathy Wilkes displays shop mannequins squatting on the toilet and sitting with leftover bits of dried porridge at their feet.

Bangladeshi-born Runa Islam re-creates cult cinema scenes from Ingmar Bergman films along with footage from the car park used in the Michael Caine thriller “Get Carter”.

Polish-born Goshka Macuga, described as a “cultural archaeologist”, draws inspiration from the 1919 German horror movie “The Cabinet of Dr Caligari”.

The Turner, first awarded in 1984, is open to British-based artists under the age of 50. Their work is showcased from October at London's Tate Britain museum and the winner of the £25,000 ($49,000) award is announced on Dec. 1.

Stephen Deuchar, Tate Britain director and chairman of the 2008 jury, said of this year's shortlist: “The works are not especially easy this time.”

“The audience for contemporary British Art has now become incredibly sophisticated. These are not just one-liners,” he told Reuters at the shortlist launch.

But what of the critics who rail against the Turner as a travesty of modern art and the tabloid newspapers who habitually mock its shortlist?

“This is art made by people for people,” Deuchar retorted.

“What is vital about the Turner prize is that it creates informed debate about art. People are not frightened to argue about its merits and de-merits.”

Damien Hirst won the Turner in 1995 with a pickled cow. Chris Ofili daubed his 1998 winning entries with elephant dung.

Martin Creed won in 2001 with an empty room containing a light that switched on and off. Pop superstar Madonna swore live on television when presenting him with the award.

But perhaps the award for the most bizarre costume should go to transvestite potter Grayson Perry. He turned up to collect his 2003 prize in a frilly Shirley Temple dress.

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This guy makes really gross-looking (and realistic looking) sculptures of severed limbs and human heads out of bread.

Fresh Baked Bread, Anyone? Gruesome Body Bakery - with photos



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Cake that looks like steak
-collection of photos of cakes that look like steak

Looks like someone watches sweeny todd a little too much.

This post has been edited by noone3 on Aug 24 2008, 11:33 PM

I don't know how he got so much realistic detail using bread.

I took many art courses in college, a few sculpture classes included, and I couldn't do anything like that in clay.

Lots of art on this page:
Ugly Art

Two stories below.

Story One:
Your unborn baby cast in bronze ... it's the new foetal attraction

Excerpts:

A clinic is offering mothers bronze models of their unborn babies.

The London Ultrasound Centre, near Harley Street, is the first in the country to offer the service, which allows parents to 'celebrate' their babies in the womb.

A 3D printer uses ultrasound images to build a cast of the child. The models cost £1,200, take up to two-and-a-half weeks to make, and are created when the mother is at a safe stage of pregnancy at 24 weeks.

Doctors say the technology could also help improve survival rates for sick babies.

Accurate casts of birth defects could be taken in the womb then studied by surgeons before they operate.

The London Ultrasound Centre is headed by Darryl Maxwell, director of foetal medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust, and Peter Demetris.

Mr Demetris told the Evening Standard the clinic is looking at a medical application for the baby-in-the-womb moulds.

Story Two:
Creepy Beach Sculptures

12 Freaky Fetish Museums
-features The Museum of Bad Art, which I've already posted about on this board.

Also lists World Carrot Museum, The Museum of Odd Socks, Museum of Menstruation, Toaster Museum, etc

This link was also placed in the 'relationship' thread in the Global Outlook forum:
Why Women Hate Men - The Blog

View photos at the following pages:
WWHM Presents Bad Tattoos: Cat Anus

WWHM Presents Special Edition II: Bad Tattoos

WWHM Presents Bad Tattoos: Mr. Cool Ice

WWHM Presents Bad Tattoos: Monster Child

I Love it!

Obama Inspires Army of Terrible Artists

Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
-(click the big picture in the middle of the page to navigate site, and keep clicking on whatever center image pops up to view the next image)

From the above site:

A WTH? Obama Painting

A Green Obama

This is cross posted to the Music thread.

Top 20 Most Shocking Banned Album Covers [NSFW]
-(link is to page one of a 3 or 4 page article)

The article has scans of the covers they discuss. Here's an excerpt:

2) The Beatles - Yesterday and Today (1966)

Meat the Beatles. For their 1966 album, Yesterday and Today, the Beatles presented themselves as grinning butchers, complete with raw beef and dismembered baby dolls. The image didn't jive with the Fab Four's squeaky clean public image (or anyone's public image, for that matter). Upon receiving advance copies, radio DJs (always arbiters of good taste) were outraged, and Capitol Records quickly repackaged the record with what was apparently the only image of the band it had available.

5) Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)

Bon Jovi's third album, Slippery When Wet, was so popular that it secured the band's position as one of the most successful hair metal acts of the Eighties. What you may not know is that the wet, black abstract theme of the final cover was second choice. The first, rejected option was a buxom woman whose attributes were nearly bursting out of her Slippery When Wet T-shirt.

12) John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968)

Is it really surprising that no one wanted to look at two naked, hairy hippies, even if one (guess who) was probably one of the best songwriters of all time?

14) Mama Lion - Preserve Wildlife

The wildcard of our list, Mama Lion’s Preserve Wildlife cover featured the singer nursing a lion cub. In a move to prevent confusion, as much as objection, the final version of the album was issued with a cutaway cover that obscured the cub-to-jug action.

15) Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (1994)

The original art for this groove metal gem included an anus being impaled by a drill bit. After the album was banned under new censorship laws, Dime & Co. went with the now-classic skull-impaled-by-drill bit motif. Perhaps that was just their way of telling the government it had its head up its ass.

17) Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984)

Roger Waters’ solo concept album about a man’s midlife crisis went to press with a cover that featured a rear shot of a female hitchhiker, wearing nothing but a red backpack and high-heels. This impractical travel wear didn’t win points with censors, and subsequent pressings received black bars over the woman’s backside.

Continuing on with our bad tattoo art exhibit:

(Not safe for work):

(If pic above does not show up, click here to view it (direct link)

Next image... Some guy got this pickle tattooed on his butt.
I cropped the image so you don't see much of his naked butt, so this SHOULD be "safe for work":


Or, click here to view image (direct link)

Artist Justine Lai paints herself having sex with various U.S. presidents (NSFW)
-including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, etc

This would've been suitable for the "Weird and strange stuff" thread...

Site featuring nothing but photos of people pretending to be dead: Play Dead Pics.com

There's a good website, I think it's the Museum of Bad Art.
Update:http://officialbadartmuseumofart.com/
There is the link.

Some guy collects plastic fruit and veggies that get washed up on the shore, and he puts them on displays in museums and shows (page has lots of photos of the fake food):

Fake Food Collection

One of the more unusual collections I’ve formed from river found debris consists of fake food. Once upon a time I called this my “Fruits and Vegetables of the Ohio” collection, but had to expand it with new food additions. This is also an ever growing collection. Some of this material dates from 2003 when I began this project.

Arts Grant Awarded for Buttocks Sculpture

A Welsh artist says she has gotten $33,000 to create plaster casts of women's buttocks in a bid to get to bottom of cultural attitudes about female fannies.

Sue Williams, of Swansea, Wales, will use the money from the Arts Council of Wales to mould a series of plaster casts of women's bottoms, starting with her own, to examine the "racial fetishism" of the backside in African and European societies, The Times of London reported Sunday.

"The project is taking on the issues around the bottom and how it is viewed in contemporary culture and viewed by the male," she said. "For example, it is quite clear that the bottom is sacrosanct to the African man and woman."

The arts grants are funded by lottery sales and are supposed to be used for "good causes." One member of the British Parliament questioned whether Williams' sculptures qualify.

Naked Barbie and Ken Dolls -probably NSFW

Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest