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Encyclopedia > Museum of Bad Art
Lucy in the Field with Flowers, the Mona Lisa of MOBA's collection.
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Lucy in the Field with Flowers, the Mona Lisa of MOBA's collection.

The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), in Dedham, Massachusetts, is a private museum dedicated to the tongue-in-cheek display of poorly conceived or executed examples of Outsider Art in the form of paintings or sculpture. It was founded in 1993, and in 1995 the display space moved from a private home to the Dedham Community Cinema [1]. The museum's permanant collection includes 250 pieces, twenty-five of which are on public display at any one time. Image File history File links Lucyflowers. ... Image File history File links Lucyflowers. ... The Mona Lisa (Italian, Spanish: La Gioconda; French: La Joconde), is an oil painting on poplar wood by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and is perhaps the most famous painting in art history; few other works of art are as romanticized, celebrated, or reproduced. ... Seal of Dedham, MA Dedham is the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... Sarcasm is the making of remarks intended to mock the person referred to (who is normally the person addressed), a situation or thing. ... Adolf Wölflis Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as Raw Art or Rough Art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created...


The museum's motto is "art too bad to be ignored." According to the director, Jerry Reilly, "the paintings and sculptures that we collect are works of exuberant art by people who sometimes don't have a clue what they're doing." [2]


The humorous presentation extends to the descriptions attached to various pieces throughout the gallery, which are often parodies of more sober art reviews. The painting Peter the Kitty, for example, is accompained by the description "stirring in its portayal of feline angst. Is Peter hungry or contemplating his place in a hungry world? The artist has evoked both hopelessness and glee with his irrational use of negative space." [3]


Perhaps the most famous of MOBA's collection is Lucy in the Field with Flowers. It was fished out of the trash in Boston by Scott Wilson, who went on to found the museum, and is referred to as "MOBA's Mona Lisa" [4]. MOBA has been the victim of an art theft, which drew the attention not only of the Boston police, but also the Boston Globe [5]. Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: www. ... The Mona Lisa (Italian, Spanish: La Gioconda; French: La Joconde), is an oil painting on poplar wood by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and is perhaps the most famous painting in art history; few other works of art are as romanticized, celebrated, or reproduced. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...


Humorous appreciation of the kind of work showcased by MOBA has had a long tradition; the MOBA gallery itself inspired a number of related projects, including the Ohio Bad Art Guild, an online-only gallery that has since ceased operating.


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Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / In Dedham, this museum is exhibiting 'bad' taste (853 words)
MOBA is selective, however: it does not accept paintings on velvet, paint-by-numbers pieces, and worn-out pop themes such as dogs playing cards or children with oversized eyes.
Such is the museum's stature that it has even had a painting stolen: "Eileen," a simple portrait that featured an apparent knife incision, was swiped in 1996 and remains at large despite the $6.50 reward that MOBA has offered for its return.
MOBA was hatched in 1993 when Scott Wilson, a West Roxbury antiques dealer and two-time art school dropout, plucked a painting from a curbside trash pile in Jamaica Plain.
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