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6 gru 2018 · 9 Times History’s Greatest Artists Made Bad Artworks. Rachel Gould. Dec 6, 2018 12:38PM. How the masterly hands behind the Sistine Chapel ceiling or The Starry Night (1889) could conceivably create anything atrocious is confounding, but even art history’s virtuosi managed some pretty dire blunders.
26 paź 2023 · In Rita Ackermann’s Dos and Donts Nurses (United) (2009), clusters of gesticulating hands and anguished faces emerge from a collaged background of women’s fashion magazine clippings featuring dos and don’ts for dieting and clothing.
4 lut 2024 · 12 Famous Ugly Paintings You Must See. From Leonardo da Vinci to Jana Euler, these 12 famous ugly paintings will have you questioning the intent, and perhaps genius of the artists who made them.
31 lip 2018 · Despite the masterful composition, the painting is ugly—or at least, it contains bright spots of ugliness. It is dappled with barbarity and splattered with joy. Heaven, shown on the left side of the triptych, looks rather boring and notably empty.
4 wrz 2017 · Polke’s enormous ‘‘Paganini,’’ 1981-83, looks like the work of multiple deviant hands, incorporating an etching of the devil mid-fiddle solo, fogbound expanses spiked with graffiti ...
19 lip 2023 · “Ugly Painting,” on view through September 16th, curated by Eleanor Cayre and Dean Kissick, celebrates painters like Richard Prince, Carroll Dunham, and Nicole Eisenman, among others, who make deliberate use of garish, grotesque styles of brushwork, figuration, or composition across their work.
8 mar 2016 · The critic Clement Greenberg lauded Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionism as ‘not afraid to look ugly – all profoundly original art looks ugly at first’. The word’s appropriation has helped to diffuse its negative charge.
