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Thinking about Aesthetics

Thinking about Aesthetics. Think about:. “Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”-Oscar Wilde Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not?. What is aesthetics?. A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art.

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Thinking about Aesthetics

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  1. Thinking about Aesthetics

  2. Think about: • “Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”-Oscar Wilde • Do you agree with this quote? • Why or why not?

  3. What is aesthetics? • A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art. • The branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste. (From dictionary.com)

  4. What is aesthetics? • It is what we consider as beautiful. • It is our artistic taste.

  5. Museum of bad art • Exhibiting Bad Art (Excerpt from Thinking Through Aesthetics by Marilyn G. Stewart)

The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) opened in 1996 in the basement of a home in the West Roxbury Section of Boston. It has a permanent collection, regularly mounts exhibitions, and has openings. According to one of the curators, bad art is in the eye of the beholder. Seventy-five percent of works submitted to the museum are rejected because they show too much technical skill. Some items are rejected because they are not original (a yellow happy face for example). 

Guidelines for bad art include "unusual use of color, interesting and different perspective, and strange subject matter." The curators never pay more than $6.50 for a piece of art. About the artists, a curator says, "We hold them in high regard. So far we have identified about twelve of the artists included and not a single one has been offended. After all, MOBA is celebrating the right to fail."


  6. Museum of bad art • What do they mean by celebrating a right to fail? • What would account for so much interest in bad art? • Please respond on a piece of paper (not the daily worksheet).

  7. Museum of bad art • Now turn to your neighbor and talk about what you wrote down. • Do you agree or disagree with each other?

  8. Project • Grab a piece of paper and pencil. • Draw the most uninteresting, unoriginal, “bad” art that you can possibly think of. • (Keep it appropriate though )

  9. Examples from the moba

  10. Project end • Rip up your artwork when you have • finished! • Understand that it is OKAY to make mistakes and not do well on every project. • Learn from your mistakes and do • better next time.

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