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The Museum Of Bad Art, MOBA, is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art.
The Museum of Bad Art

The Museum of Other Art
The Museum promote an inclusive attitude towards all art, a culture that is open to many different ways of seeing and visualizing. A culture that invites the Other: the different, complex, ambivalent, individual, simple, seductive, vulgar, joyful, humoristic, ugly and subjective.
The Museum of Other Art

Interesting Ideas
The Orange Show for Visionary Art

Why Art Became Ugly by Stephen Hicks

Bert Christensen's Weird, Strange & Just Plain Bad Art Collection

Museum of Particularly Bad Art
Bar Code Art
UNPOP ART
This is Bad Art by David Bradbury
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace
Komar & Melamid, The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web

Piggyback Art by Eddie Breen
The PSB Gallery of Thrift Store Art
Museum im Lagerhaus
Anthony Petullo Collection
L'Aracine
Outsider Art.info
Outsider Artworld
The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art
 

Folk Art

Compton Verney, British Folk Art Collection
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA)
The American Visionary Art Museum
Ginger Young Gallery celebrates the creative genius of folk, outsider, visionary, and self-taught artists from the Southeastern United States.
Outsider Folk Art Gallery
Japan folk Art Museum

Tramp Art

Artisans - Tramp Art, Folk Furniture, Carvings, Quilts, & More
The Ames Gallery - Tramp Art

Vannes, France

Iki

An iki thing is simple, improvised, straight, restrained, temporary, romantic, ephemeral, original, refined or inconspicuous. An iki person would be audacious, indifferent, chic, calm, pert, tacit, sassy, unselfconscious,   unintentionally coquettish, open-minded or  restrained
Iki/wikipedia
 

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is the formal study of art, specially with the relation to the idea of beauty. Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of philosophy and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.
Aesthetics/wikipedia
 

Beauty

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Beauty = the quality of being pleasing to look at, or someone or something that gives great pleasure.
Beauty/wikipedia
 

Wabi-sabi

Japanese arts have been influenced by Zen philosophy and the acceptance and contemplation of the imperfection.  Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asperity, simplicity, modesty and asymmetry. Wabi-sabi aesthetic arts example: bonsai, Zen gardens and ikebana
Wabi-sabi/wikipedia
Wabi-Sabi Art
The Art of Bonsai
The Bonsai Site
Japanese Aesthetics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Japanese Aesthetics and the Garden
 
Ugly art, bad art, wabi-sabi, iki, outsider art, beauty and savants syndrome. | Grotesque profile, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.
Grotesque profile, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

Aesthetics is the formal study of art, specially with the relation to the idea of beauty. Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of philosophy and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Indigenous Australian Art (Aboriginal Australia Art)

Dreamings, Aboriginal Australia Art
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
AAMU, Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art
The National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Tandanya

 

     
   
     
     
   

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