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great siteski! wonderful collection of bad art from a bad (good, though, too, right?) artist. i think it's all art. sure that's a huge statement but i truely believe it. yes, shit on a wall is art if someone, anyone, really SEES it as such. there doesn't even need to be a point, a purpose, a revalation intrinsically designed for the viewer. it is/was created, it wasn't a waste of time no matter what it looks like. i know i'm rambling, but.. my last point is... my worst pet peeve is hearing the phrase "well i'm not an artist" - you sign your name don't you? you make a mark, somewhere in your life there is evidence that contradicts that supposed "lack of the 'art gene'". even the poetry of how we communicate is art - body language, dreaming, sex, sadness & rage. the mediocre, the dull, the excessive and rude, the (yeah yeah get the point) etc. - it is, you guessed it, living art filling space and time, if not our memories, or museums.

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Truly horrible, but you're kind of coasting here. Even intentionally amateur art is expressive. Have you ever studied programming? Here, you can make an entire career of arrogant pretense, instead of a hobby. It is ignorant to criticise art, but it is tru y evil to second-guess the engineer, and the things we make lack even aesthetic purpose.

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Never has any "bad art" been so good! Stunning work.

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Kewl art..strange..but kewl

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Check out my site will ya? I believe the best abstract modern art is the work of highly respected Chimps and Gorillas. I include links to those sites plus a few other primates. All other abstract sucks! New site... in the making... not advertised wid ly yet.

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I like the art by Sean McGarry. The others are intresting but, Sean's has a special appeal for me. Possably this is so because Sean is my grandson and my views are colored by that fact.

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As the internet shrinks the world the contributions of indivuals become more homogenous, reducing the value of each globally but increasing its value locally. Do you charge by the hour or by the painting?

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i liket you pictures.please visit my websites.

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Hey, wonderful stuff. Have you considered doing miniatures? I am presently one of only two active Genericists, and as a co-founder of a whole movement I have to tell you: start taking yourself seriously - bad art, good art, if you have pretensions and a whore of an agent you'll go anywhere.

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Complete ans utter She@t! I don't know when I have ever seen some more Shitty shit in my whole shittin shitty shit life! Take this shit to the shitting shitty shit shit, and shit it!

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Jezebel was my absolutely favorite piece. I'd love to have something painted. Everyone says this, but you wouldn't have to send it to me. Maybe you could just post it on your sight. I especially liked your babies and animals. Maybe you could paint a baby iding a dog or cat. Do you know how to paint lobsters or lizards or hamsters? A baby sitting next to a lobster would be great. I take an industrial welding class because I loved the movie "Flashdance". I, too, am a struggling/horrible artist. I often melt my projects or set my pants on fire while welding. I often ask the other students in the class, "Do you smell smoke or are my pants just on fire again?" My favorite piece that I have welded is a two foot long sewer piper with a iron slab across the top. I call it the "T". It sits in the corner of my and Robert's apartment with a plant on it. My cats Andre and Ursa like to stand near the "T".

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Is this a dating questionnaire? My, those are slightly personal interrogations. Despite all that, your webpages are marvelous! I was having a horrendous case of painter's block and so decided to peruse paintings on the web. Finding your page, I toured every gallery fastidiously and laughed my ass off. It was great. Keep painting.

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I would just like to thank David for showing his artistic personality throughout this site and also for putting a piece of my art in the hall of shame(every one go check it out and e-mail me your opinion).

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i think your web is pure fun, but i do think i see a bit of dreaming in it, like! hm, i,d love to be a ?? real artist. and have some body love me. and!! i can,t blame you for that ,me too! i,ve been waiting for 25 years for ,hey! your good. i have three s ows going on right now but!! one is at a local library ,one a dude ranch and one a restaurant, and none at a museum. ha ha, thats life. rejection, re jection. good luck and have fun and lord ,your lady friend is a doll. by by walt

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That's the way it should be. What the artists feel or think are more important than what people generally could notice. Let photography captures the details and art to express perception.

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Hi dave - Good to see you in Brighton last weekend. Hope you got back to London O.K. Nice to see the new Pics by the way. I haven't got your e-mail, but I hope you'll make it down to Steyning on the 8Th - be good to see you.

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What is to become of all this useless art???

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hee hee i know you mister bradbury. I am an oyster siblingette. I like your paintings... I cannot wait for you to go though the inevitable progression towards abstaction. Nevermind if it's what the world wants.... it's what it;s going to get.... Bye sir y u monkeyboy

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Wonderful! When I learn to use a scanner, I may terrorise you with some morsels from my oeuvre.(Cackle,cackle...)

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I am an American trapped in Italy where they do not understand bad art at all! THEIR LOSS! HAHA!

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fantastic! a ray of light in a world of dirty beds, stuffed animals and marketing ploys

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Ahh, fine work. It is apparent that you rank with the greatest of Cat Artists in finding your Point of Harmonic Resonance.

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Anxiously awaiting my own "free" portrait!!

Tara

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This is one hell of a Brilliant site i've already e-mail the artist once as yes I share the same name.

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Belly laughs for bad art. Bravo for your successful attempt to contrive bad art. This page is beautiful the way Las Vegas is. It is also well compiled but not over the top. Viva bad art! Bad art!

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fine fickle fan of friendy fangoblinettes...

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Dave, Sorry it's taken me so long to visit your site, well worth the trip though. Loved the piano and the rabit, the portrait of Maggie was fab! Good to see you the other week in Brighton, hope life is treating you well. Take care and keep painting. Helen xxx

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yo bro!!!! :)

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loved your paintings!

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i once went to the pub in cov and they were having an illigal betting contest with one legged horses,well i said yeah, whats going on. well this is progress was their reply. i still don't understand.

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Sorry it's taken so long 8000 odd people beat me to it. I liked it! Does that mean I have no taste? I sense that as bad art becomes more acceptable artists such as yourself have to constantly probe the boundaries of baddness to avoid becoming that which you strive to react against. For me the picture of the cat maintains your status of the godfather of bad art. Respect. Must meet up for a pint soon J.

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I am completely awestruck by the artistic depth of your collection. "Teletubby" captures a pathos rarely depicted to such a haunting extent in the visual realm. Are portraits of Po, Dipsy, and Tinky-Winky still to come? We can only hope! And your "Hall of Shame" collection! Bravo! As a purveyor of the movement that IS "bad art," I certainly appreciate all four of the selections contained therein. Great site-- and remember, The Chad loves you!

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Well - where is my portrait?????? It is the best of the bunch yet (and the biggest) Love, M.

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I truely enjoy your site. I would like to have you do a painting for me. How busy are you now? I am having trouble emailing through geocities, but I could E-mail you a picture to do...

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Loved visiting your site, and wonder if my shit will qualify the best bad art site I've seen so far. Failingly good effort. bravo!

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You must really love painting, or you wouldn't have gone through such a trouble... Break your leg!

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Enjoyed wandering through it.

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ages

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Great site, thanks, I had fun. I really liked the baby and the piano, maybe you could combine the two?

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"An excellent site, especially for those up and coming artists of today! You can really feel the art ozing out of the artist"...The Times

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Gotta tell ya...your early work was pretty bad...but you're gettin better...may be time to quit while you're ahead. :) I really actually thought the baby in the blue diaper stands up to the best in the "real" galleries...scary.

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Your right....it is bad! God......its really really bad! But! The oil on photo is actually interesting...ugly..but interesting. Cheers....and suck on!

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I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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David, sorry we had to enter the guestbook twice but our first attempt was rudely aborted. Anyway, great to at last have found the now world famous "Bad Art" page - it took ages to find it. We're both very impressed, especially with portrait of Maggie. Good to see you in London the other week, hope everything is going well. See you soon. Matt & Janet

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I had once a birthday card that you did like this and I chucked it out and thought you probably didn't like me anymore, but if I'd kept it I might have been able to sell it. Perhaps you can do me another one. I am very impressed that you have motivated omeone sufficiently to write a whole page about this site. See you on Saturday, and don't forget the music.

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Dave, great to see you on Saturday. Give us a ring and come over for a few drinks one night. I really enjoyed the site, it's great!! A picture will be winging its way over soon! Love D x Alright Dave old chap, good to see you on Saturday(albeit a brief encounter), but feel free to visit this neck of the woods whenever. Great site, see ya, Mark a.k.a Bones a.k.a The Joker a.k.a...oh you get the picture, or you will

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I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like your collection of art. Your "not Michael Jackson" quite took my breath away. I had to take some brandy before I had the strength to write. I have forwarded you splendid art work to the new Getty Museu here in Southern California..so far the snobby clots haven't even done be the courtesy of answering. However, excellsior, onward and upward. Keep up the good work.

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Loved your site. As a Mortgage Broker by day and "Bad Artist" by night I can really relate. I frame all of my paintings and hang them in the living room. Actually most of this stuff isn't bad at all. I liked the piano. I'll be back!

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jean dubuffet said it best, "remember that there is only one way to paint well, while there are a thousand ways to paint badly; it's from them that i expect something new, that i hope for revelations, all the possible ways of painting badly interest me because i think that through them you can reach new ways of thinking." check out my web site, the art is naive and expressionistic as is yours : www.sillydilly.com also check out the museum of bad art (you could be a contender) www.glyphs.com/moba most importantly, keep up the "bad

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I think your gallery is absolutely great, it's the first place in its kind that gives me such feeling of freedom, joy, laughter! I think you have a very clear picture of what art really is. We miss people like you in this land. Claudia Avil�s, an artist's wife.

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Your art seems to me dared, funny and satiric. I suppose it has a reason to be, beyond a simple joke of yourself. I really don't know what it's going on your artistic environment, for you to do what you do. Seeing you gives me the satisfaction of knowing hat in some other place in the world there is people who rebels like this, which is fantastic. Go on with your good bad art. Alex Alvarez, Chilean artist.

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I liked your piano very much, it is very personal

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outstanding work & a worthwhile website. From all of us - Melina Carriere Andrew Palmer Kate Melhuish Will Palmer. That's all.

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You Sir are a artistic genious. Can I commision a painting of a Westen omlette on a paper plate? please let me know.

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Not too bad, is an antidote against everyday intoxication.

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keep up the bad work for all of bad artdom dave

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Loved your piano. Fantastic color. Whimsical!, Charming! uh... makes me hungry for linguine al pesto and a glass of wine. Call it a quirk, but good art makes me hungry. That's a compliment, since most of the time I feel anorexic. Thanks.

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My dogma was run over by my karma.

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May your brushes be blessed with continual badness!

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HEY, HONEY OF MINE..I WAS THERE ALL THE TIME. DID YOU WEEP? DID YOU FREEZE? TURN TO GOLD AND GO TO SLEEP....JESUS DON'T WANT ME FOR A SUNBEAM...ANNIE DOG HAS A LEASH AND A FACE. THIS MAY SOUND SILLY, BUT I WANT TO BE YOUR EASTER BUNNY I WANT TO BE YOUR CH ISTMAS TREE.

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Very entertaining Dave - where is the one that I defaced?

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Thoroughly bad art. Can I get a commissioned work?

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I've written pretty much everything in the answers to the questions. My Mum loves your work. I think its pretty cool. I can't do art so I respect anyone who can use a paintbrush in any way shape or form.

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I thought I liked art. I've now discovered I truly like bad art! Thanks for the laughs ... I now can paint and know I'm not alone!!

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first art site visited, fabulously bad. The teletubbye has to go (not bad enough). whats on maggies shoulder? is she pro fur? brought to mind auerbach's 'e.o.w. waiting for a root probably'. the piano also had that camden school sort of feel about it, i can imagine sickert painting some old wax draped pianola in the front parlour.

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Bonjour. I votre homepage est int�ressant. Combien de temps avez-vous �t� sur l'Internet? Quoi qu'il en soit, je dois aller vague d�ferlante plus de pages de Web. Bon e Chance!

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What was that supposed to be? Seriosly though it wasn't bad. How about a self portrait or something?

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David i think that you and your art is the mutz kernutz.

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At last an art page to be proud of - no pretentions of grandure, its what is badly needed in the Art World. Just because snotty nosed Prof. Anus ,an expert in Art ,says your art is shit doesnt mean you cant enjoy it or display it. Fair fucks to you. Dave you are cool - email me!

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great art gallery. It must be the way you use colors that caught my attention. You do real good works.I like them. BY

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Your site is good. Your art is really bad. Rupert Rocks! The Teletubby is quite frightening.

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David, I can't believe it took so long for SOMEONE to post a page on groovie art—but thanks to you the hole in everyone's lives is filled! YOU have made the web complete with your superbly excellent "bad" art. Thanks dude for your care and consideration for all f us out here in la la land. Ciao, Nello (rhymes with jello)

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hey, i thought ur art sucked, but wow ur guest book is interesting.. i read nearly all of them.. i love the reactions u cause in people.. u'll go somewhere someday.. hopefully sooner rather than later.. be good.. good luck.. and keep up the good work:))

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Loved your work. Its very sweet and free. I make big abstract paintings that are attached to a motor and they rotate from square to diamond at timed intervals. All the galleries I have approahed have told me they are not original enough. LIKE THEY FUCKI G TURN, OKAY! Well, I don't mean to get upset, it just gets a little tired, you know? I know compared to say, a mound of styrafoam with dog piss on it they don't seem very innovative, but hey, I'm trying. Well, keep up the bad work. Its is lovely and ade smile from ear to ear!

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Your teletubby painting's real good. I like the teletubbies a lot because they make me feel good when I watch them. I think that they're really honest and innocent and it's like a vision from the flipside of reality or something. It's sort of like the riumph of surrealism, you know. The fact that these little gibbering bubbles of fantastic alien color are ushering America's newborns into the world. For the next generation, television will be even more real than it was for my generation. It'll be equ ted with birth itself. What a beautiful way to look at birth -- "just like turning on a t.v. set" -- wonderful. Well, Marshall MacLuhan already said, like 50 years ago, that with t.v. and all these new technologies & stuff, individuals' central nervous ystems were being extended beyond the normal limits of the physical self -- we are all becoming one interpenetrating thought-complex, you know, like global society as a whole is evolving spiritually together rather than seperately (or at least this is wha needs to happen). And this is why people create art. No, that isn't true. But it's why I create art, primarily why I create art. I want to create culture, you know. I think that art that's just about "personal expression" is oftentimes really banal nd lifeless because it doesn't relate to a larger community. And I think this is why I like your teletubby painting so much because it's so topical. It's like some Cagean Anarchist dreamland. The teletubbies themselves are really like a symphony by Joh Cage, right, because everything in that show is repeated endlessly and slowed down and done again and again with slight differences in order to change the consciousness of the viewer, allowing us to find new ways of processing the same sensory input. It s like what Cage always says about boredom and how things are only boring if you're not paying attention to them and that the longer you listen to something the more interesting it becomes. I think that the best thing about your teletubby painting is how much you've allowed yourself to get into the egoless and child-visionary mindset of the teletubby universe and to transmit that state of pure consciousness to the person looking at your art. I mean, it's really beautiful, but it's not incredibly painterl or expressive. And certainly by choosing the teletubby motif you're not being "original" or anything so pretentious as that. What you've created is just an egoless record of the "ambient cultural noise" (MacLuhan again) that surrounds us all, right? A d the colors are even more brilliant and vibrational than those of the pixilated television -- no small feat to accomplish in a painting. It's absolutely a beatiful, incredible, mind-expanding experience looking at your teletubby painting. Completely su lime! It's really really good. Now, as far as "bad art" is concerned, I of course don't believe that your paintings qualify. I hope you're not disappointed. I've seen a lot of stuff out there that's far far worse than yours. For instance, Clyfford St ll (Is that spelled right) -- he's a real fuckhead. Anyway, you seem like a really nice guy and that's really 70% of what matters in life (on this side of reality, anyway, in which hard cold facts and materialism and Cartesian bullshit still holds sway o er the minds of millions). If you're a nice guy, people will like you and they'll like your art because they like you. Furthermore, the artists that everybody hates are usually the ones that are mean and ugly and pretentious and full of shit. Nobody li es a fuckhead. Well, everybody liked Picasso and he was a fuckhead. Dali was basicall a fuckhead who artists don't usually like but who everybody else in the world likes. So I guess sometimes even fuckheads can be winners. Anyway, I think that this ar (I'm talking about your art now) is just wonderful and I think that you must be a really nice guy and a great artist and I'm gonna send you a photo as soon as possible and I hope to Gosh that you get it and make me some art because I love your work. Or aybe we can trade because that's what real artists do, right? Maybe you can draw a teletubby on top of my photograph for me. That would be really really great. But I guess I shouldn't tell you what to do because you probably already want to do the sort of things that you ordinarily do and I don't want to disrupt your creative process, even if you're a "bad" artist who doesn't have a creative process. Oh, I'm making this "Comment" really long because that way it will stand out and you'll have more of a hance of actually reading it (or at least skimming it). So, if you're reading this now, I have one last proposal: IF YOU'RE EVER GOING TO BE COMING TO NEW YORK, PLEASE CONTACT ME SO THAT I CAN GET YOU TO COME AND SPEAK AT MY COLLEGE. WE CAN GIVE YOU A N CE MEAL & LOTS OF MONEY AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TELL A BUNCH OF ART MAJORS HOW TO BE SHLOCKY ARTISTS (WE'D ALL LOVE TO HEAR YOU BECAUSE MOST OF US THINK THAT ART IS BY NATURE PRETENTIOUS AND BOURGEOIS AND IT'S HEARTENING TO SEE SOMEBODY LIKE YOU OUT THERE T YING TO DESTROY ALL OF THAT ART-WORLD BULLSHIT SINGLEHANDEDLY). Thank you for your time, thanks for listening. Do not hesitate to email me (AND IF ANYBODY ELSE OUT THERE HAS FOUND MY LITTLE RANT ENTERTAINING, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO EMAIL ME YOUR OWN OSH-DURN SELF, OK?). Cool. Bye-BYE, everybody! Got to rock on!

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you have good colors. i like the way you cover the area with color and movement in your strokes. i like the clarity of your portraits.

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after wading through piles of new age and otherwise pretentious crap on the internet I was delighted to find your work. Thanks, and I wish you all the success or lack thereof you would ever dream.

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Nice work, but I think this might be a put on.

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It is difficult to find blue meatballs. You can paint the brown ones, but they taste terrible. They are best when served on pink spaghetti. thank you...I need to take some prozac now...

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Enjoyed this site very much. Especially when I am supposed be working and using my employer's time for something more productive. I love giving it to the man.

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Great site, David. You made it big time when I saw your site on national TV.

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Fantastic site - it is just what the art world needs. It's a shame Brian Sewell hasn't sent you anything to paint yet. It is great to see a different representation of Becky's poussy on the web!

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As no one has entered any comments for weeks!

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yuck. Well done. :)

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I hope you aren't offended by this, but I think you are showing improvement. You are a better artist by far than my high school art teacher.

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Very good - I like your unique style. I think you should try to draw a monkey - I have a feeling you like them. I like the idea that you do commissions too - I think you will go far, if not with the painting, then maybe with piano playing or reciting am lamations of poetry in the square, or becoming a professional tequilla drinker.

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Cool site, I must say. Stumbled across it, and had a good time. But I'm not really in the mood to talk about art today, cause hey..sometimes you just aren't. Food, now I could do that, cause frankly I'm starving to death. See ya..gonna go chow down...

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You're site is remarkable, sir. Due to the true, labored, crude nature of your work, you have been selected for inclusion in the links of "The Salvatore Collection" - one of the premiere collections of bad art in the United States today! Good luck and keep up the bad work! Vito <"}))><

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Thank you. Quite wonderfull. I now am searching for a photograph suitible for a commision... would a drawing do? You are generous.

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Humm, I am right in thinking the famous 'Tellytubby' painting is currently hanging in the illustrious 'ground-floor-Mondaq' gallery. David, you are an artist without compare - the art world can only prey it remains that way!!!(only joking) anyway bye now br>

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I think this site is a half assed conceit. No one says, "Look at me, see how bad I am" and ever really means it. You sir are a coward. Bad artists should not paint. Your pictures, conversely, are very, very interesting. The style is honest and the subject matter extremely relevant and contemporary. You have true talent. Why be frightened to admit it? Why hide your light when you should be out there shining bright y? Keep up the good work but for Christ's sake start being real about your talent.

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its bad art in the sense that it is bad art..you see, bad art is a term given to serious art with certain attitute, read: Basquiat, Schnabel, Futura2000, but this is just bad art in the literal sense, not in the figurative one..even the sprayed-on title i insipid, at best. best wishes.

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Love the site. I made it a bookmark. Lot's of cool stuff, nice design. Was looking for art that I can use on an invitation for our stuffy mktg mtg and found you. Glad I did. (don't worry, I didn't take anything - ha,ha)

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You are the best artist from Kilburn. Hodgkin watch out! Can I be so bold as to give you a pointer or two? Sure success! Why not put a whole anteater . . . or . . hmmmm. . . . maybe a shark . . . into some kind of an aquarium and fill it with some green l quid, maybe formaldehyde or something, and display the whole thing. People will go nuts over it. Hey, no need to thank me. I get these silly ideas once in a while. By the way, consider yourself under my commission. When I find a suitable photo it'll be on its way. George

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I like, I like. There's such movement in you paintings, heheh. It inspired the artist within me, well, briefly at least. Very briefly. Very cool page, keep up the good work!!!!!

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Sorry about going off down there! In regards to "Bad Art", well, I have some of my own, and yours, hanging on my quaint farmhouse walls!

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There is way too much pontificating that poses as visual art with no or little attention paid to craftsmanship. Why don't these people just get on a soap box in Washington Square Park instead of hogg- ing up all of the NYC gallery spaces. And if they are not at least addressing issues, then they're making work such as the piece featured in 3/98 (or 4/98?) Art in America: "I Peed Myself." Curators: Get a clue!!!!! Stop validating this shit (literally).

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Its fun, keep doing it. Nice quotes.

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Well, I know I'm in a difficult situation, because I admit that so much of what passes for art these days is crap, but I know if I try to defend modern art, or artists working today who feel that serious talent, serious need for expression and even inspir tion necessarily override or outweigh irreverence and sarcasm, what I hear in return is, "What a pretentious asshole! Out-dated bag of hot air! Living fossil!" etc. But I've got news for you, pal, the idea was great... once. The 'pieces' are...bad, you sa d it! (No, I mean really bad!). But what you're doing, by creating truly bad paintings and passing your work off as an artistic statement, is undermining to a small extent the entire concept of human capacity to Create, which is one of the very few things that differentiates us from other animals in the first place! Haven't you ever watched a movie, or heard a piece of music, and been so moved, that it ...inspired you? I'm guessing you've never seen a painting that's given you that feeling, or else you hav , but can't accept it on its own without all the pretentious 'baggage', and have become so jaded by the countless other really bad artists out there (and filmmakers, and musicians,...) who had your idea before you, or just love to slam the concept of art n the first place, that for the sake of convenience, ALL modern art is crap. And that is a crying shame, for art and our ability to create it can only die out when we die out as well, am I wrong? And if an idea has already been realized, then there's got o be SOMEthing original, some innovation, that makes it stimulating in some way, doesn't that make sense? Every time I see someone passing off bad paintings as 'art', for whatever reason, it's the same feeling I get as when I see a pile of beer bottles in the middle of a forest, know what I mean? Sorry for the attack, nothing personal really, but you did lay yourself wide open. Find some creative hobby instead, believe me, the rewards are immensely greater.

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Loved this site- a breath of fresh air!!! Lived the pretentious gallery whore life for too long-crave bad art!

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Hey, I dig your extremely loose and fun approach to painting... I am a recovering graphic artist. I have found that I absolutely abhor that medium, save for the fact that I still like to attempt web graphics and design from time to time. So I am about t take a stab at what I feel is MY idea approach to painting, and that is to plant myself in front of a blank canvas, with plenty of paint poured onto a canvas at my side, and let loose. The only thing that I would have pre-planned is the color scheme. N t even a sketch. I just want to let the ideas flow straight from my subconscious, if that sounds corny enough for ya. But that seems to be where my best stuff comes from. I've spent many a boring moment at my old shitty graphics job, doodling without even really thinking, and produced some COOL looking stuff (at least I think so) in about five minutes. Anyway, if you l ok at my website right now, it doesn't contain anything like that. All it is is second rate (but fun!) web graphics, a couple of pencil drawings, a couple of CorelDRAW graphics, and a Photoshop/Painter 5.0 graphic. Be cool! --Cathy

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I enjoyed your site. I think we may both have the same sense of fun about such things. Best regards.

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Cop-Out, False Prophet, I've been a false prophet, and I am embarassed of it. Quit your yappin and learn to draw, then paint. MAKE SALVADOR AND GALA PROUD!!! Imagine the impact of your imagination if you could discilpine yourself. Dont give up. EVER. Blind contours baby, those are the keys. Good luck.

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My lawyers will be in touch with your parents. Can I have my photo back please.

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This is INCREDIBLE..by far the BEST bad art ive seen in awhile....do you rank yourself among the outsider artists? If so your work should be worth millions. Im a great fan of this unadulterated, naive stuff..after all isnt this is what true art is all ab ut...no talent.. just flowing self expression. GREAT entertaining site! you done well!

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You are obviously very talented!! You learn something new about people every day..... ...I will find you a photo... can I have the canvass so that I can display it in my house.

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Interesting Site-like the Artwork a lot! Come see some of my digital artwork at my site!

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Bad art; bad, bad art. Now I can truly say I've seen art that even my cat could do (well, except for that Sistine Chapel thing maybe). Great site!

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Got onto the old internet surreptiously and went straight for your famous site - well impressed. Are u coming for a drink tomorrow (Fri) for my b'day? Dover Castle - Weymouth St, off Portland Pl. Maybe see u there Definitely got the Maggie likeness there. Will u do one for me? Kate

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its so horrible -- i love it! please mail me, i'd live to hear your working philosophy

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I particularly enjoyed the piano. Is this where I request the free work of art? Are you sure you want to give away your time? Is it not more valuable?

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Your art speaks to me like none other. It says: "Horse who drink too much water gets bellyache."

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once i saw this exhibit by a sculpture major at Rhode Island School ofDesign (very prestigious) and it was her final and all it was was little balls of hair like you find in the bath stuck to cellophane tape and stuck to the wall. You have to have balls o do that. another person's project was to combine many rolls of toilet paper by unrolling them, taping them end to end and rolling them up again. the result was a huge 4' roll of toilet paper just laying on the floor.

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Who can resist a Bad Art Web page? Not me.

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great site. i love old piano. but i hate teletubbies

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I usually peruse for oil and abstraction-I'm glad your sardonic ad caught me, I enjoyed your Piano

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Hi, I think your web site is cute. And your teletubby was great, satisfying my fetish for all things British. I am fed up with high art pretensions as well and hate the reactions I get from professors about my underground comix. They can fuck off. : ) . I write because I want to move to London for a few months when I graduate next year, and i was planning to work on street corners painting portraits of any willing passer-bys onto black velvet, I thought maybe you could give me some location suggestio s, prime street-corners, parks, etc. . . Keep up the bad art Cheers, Rachel.

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love your site. sent you email, did you get? Let's stay in touch. I exhibit in Santa Fe and New Orleans and am only emerging after long time fearing it. Gulp. Am also writer. Have a memoir with a literary agent now. Watch me! Regards, TEzzeen, the Zlord

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I like your old piano.

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Interesting website. I like the luscious paint on the "Piano". Great art seems to have very much to do with who you know (cliques). At first I thought you were talking about Soho in New York. Then I realized the original Soho is in London. I want to go back there again.

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I'm starving for my art, my university grades are slipping, all for this thing called painting. I am not terrifically great at it, but I live to do it. Tell me some secrets on how to fund my habitual work.

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i like it, i wish i thought of it, you got it, ride it.

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I've never seen oil on photograph before. Keep up the good work.

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Cool!!!! I like your idea: BAD ART really cool.

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It's true that your paintings are fairly bad but there were some redeeming qualities in your rabbit commission piece, although I'm not sure what they were. Keep trying and keep posting more works because I enjoyed visiting your site, ciao.

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Your work is interesting

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Never in the field of bad art, has so much been owed by so many to so few

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Actually, my wife loved the piano quite a bit. I just enjoyed the whole site. Much success to you. -- Bob and Miranda

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It's fascinating what one can do with photos these days. I used to contend with my wife that there was no "bad" art, but you've made a believer out of me! Keep up the BAD work! Cheers, Big Ears!

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I just knew you had to be English - such style, such elegance. Wish there were more of you about. (Can you paint a picture of my rabbit if I send you a polaroid?)

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You sure that yellow guy isn't Curious George? I think you have the right idea about art...it should come from the heart and not be taken too serious.You obviously have the skills to paint anything...so then you have the pseudo-sophisticates that will judge you on subject matter,as if they even have a clue.Next time you are in San Francisco I'd like to meet you. Vanessa

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I'm enjoying the procociosness of "teletubby". He makes a terrific wallpaper.

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i really like the painting of the piano a lot. a lot. bye

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two opposing ideas may both be right, it all depends on the interpreter. this is the state of art. bad art is in the interpretation

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the end product is not as important as the process because it is in the abandonement to the process that gut art appears. It can be seen in the gesture left by the medium and in the rawness of the images .Within us lies an indefinite reservoir of original images. We just need to abandon our preconceptions and trust in the entity behind the breath to bring to fruition the icons floating in the abyss of our subconscious.This is the beauty of surrendering to the creative process.You never know what the end re ult is going to be,but sometimes the mind will be amazed or horrified or embarrassed ,but so what about what it thinks! The only relevance is getting out of the way and allowing it to flow

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You all realy cen to kiss my ass!

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Great page. Really impressive