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(THIS BLOG IS NOT AFFLIATED WITH NOR DOES IT REPRESENT VALUE VILLAGE) Welcome to the (Value) Village Art Gallery. I’m your host, Curator SadHoboClown, and I will be your guide throughout the tour. Here you will find, free of charge, some of the most fantastic and awe-inspiring paintings ever gazed upon by the eyes of mankind. Our intention here is not to make anyone feel bad for having possibly created what many would consider to be bad art: I myself am a would-be artist and I’ve done some truly terrible things with paint and canvas, for which my conscience still plagues me. However: I honestly believe that most of the paintings you will see here can be considered charming: in them you are able to see the stumbling, tottering baby-steps that various artists have taken in the process of learning how to do something they’ve perhaps never done before. The point is that most people can only get better at something if they start out not better at something, right? So even if I’m being a bit of a wise-ass at times, bear in mind that it’s all in fun. Bad Art is still Art! (DISCLAIMER: THIS SITE AND ALL ITS CONTENTS ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. DON'T HAVE A COW, MAN!!!)

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Seashore and Lighthouse (Oil on Canvas)



(Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

This and the painting immediately to follow were the high points of my day. These appear to be old and legitimately “talented amateur-created art.” It can get confusing sometimes. I say this because, from a statistical standpoint, I see so many painfully, demonstrably bad paintings, that when I see one that’s just… “not bad” rather than “actually good”, the lines of critical discernment can become blurred. This painting is an example of that. In the Real World, it might be described as an “average” or “uninteresting” or “so-so” painting. But here in Weirdsville, I feel as if I’m in the presence of freaking genius! Because Relativity, dig?

ON THE OTHER HAND, crummy paintings or no, this one is actually good enough that it caught my eye and made me want to take time to look at it for a while. Which is always a good thing. As a matter of fact, it is so "interesting-in-a-novice-kind-of-way" that it is being inducted into the “(Value) Village Art Gallery ‘Favorites’ Category” that I’m creating at this very moment! I will be going back through our exhibits and making note of which paintings fall under that auspicious and illustrious nomenclature. Feel free to go looking for them and see if you agree with me!

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