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Category Archives: QuestionableArt
Prior evidence proves that early goldfield memorabilia is important
Ben Prior’s Open Air Museum is located in Bayley Street, Coolgardie, in the heart of the the goldfields district of Western Australia. Coolgardie was the site of an initial gold rush in the early 1890s, prior to the Kalgoorlie-Boulder gold rush. This collection was … Continue reading
This poor dog is stuffed!
Taxidermy is the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals for display or, for other sources of study. The term comes from the Greek for “arrangement of skin”. A taxidermist (who conducts this type of work), may be … Continue reading
Ruffling the fur on Hello Kitty
There has been much ‘to do’ this week which is enough to ruffle your fur. In case you haven’t caught up with the latest, it appears that the “Hello Kitty” cartoon depiction we are all used to seeing, is not … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Collectibles, nostalgia, QuestionableArt, StreetArt
Tagged d, Dize, Hello Kitty, Sanrio, StreetArt, Yuko Shimizu
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Let yourself go!
I will apologize in advance, if you find this illustration offensive, however, I do feel obligated to cover erotic art amongst my offerings and ask once more – “Is it art“? This particular piece is from a 1962 cover of … Continue reading
Posted in Collectibles, Cover Art, QuestionableArt
Tagged #EroticArt, #IllustrativeArt, Exotique magazine, Gene Bilbrew
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Was it Shoeicide or not?
What’s with the preponderance for seeing abandoned shoes or footwear wherever you go? and why is it most often, one lonely piece? Look around and you will quickly see that there are plenty of singular shoes, runners, thongs, sandals, or … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, StreetArt, TheBad, TheUgly
Tagged abandoned art, abandoned footware, objet trouvé, RubbishArt, shoefitti, single shoes
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When Frank’n’Stein met the ‘Armless Men’
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) – notice how the gingerbread men are totally ‘armless’?’ Must admit, I have just come back from attending a wonderful annual event. Not only does April 1 represent ‘April Fool’s Day‘ … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, TheGood
Tagged #EdibleArt, #EdibleBookFestival, A Farewell to Arms, Art, Ernest Hemingway, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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Go Mango!
OK everyone, apparently we can all relax. “The Big Mango of Bowen” which disappeared overnight has been found. The ‘spotted’ fruit was found at the back of the Bowen Tourist Information Office. A little off-kilter and more horizontal than vertical, … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, StreetArt, TheBad
Tagged #Kitsch, Big Items, Bowen, street sculpture, The Big Mango
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Compare the Pair #9 – What the stuff?
This first bag of chaff sits in an art gallery – the wonderful National Gallery of Victoria. It is called “Art Stuffing” (1970) , an installation by conceptual artist, Aleks Danko, born in 1950. It is a hessian bag stuffed … Continue reading
“Bring out your dead”
You know when Christmas is over – that’s when you see the dead or dying Christmas trees, discarded from the family home and thrown onto the suburban nature or communal strip. By this stage they have gone brown, the needles … Continue reading
“…And Dream of Sheep”
As a child I remember times when I could not get off to sleep and my parents would say that all you needed to do was count sheep. With that, they would get up, turn my bedside lamp off for … Continue reading
Compare the pair #6 Trolley Wallies
Can you spot the difference? One is considered art and the other is not. For example, both involve abandoned supermarket trolleys. If nothing else, both examples could be seen as a form of ‘still life’. However, the first example is … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, StreetArt, TheBad
Tagged #YarnBombing, QuestionableArt, RubbishArt, StillLife, supermarket trolleys
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Compare the Pair – #4 – 101 inspirations from a wine bladder
A Wine bladder – is also known as box wine, boxy, bladder, cask-wine bag, or goon bag, (coll. for flagon). It refers to any wine packaged as a bag-in-the-box, or cask wine. Such packages usually contain a plastic bladder protected … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, Sculpture, StreetArt, StreetFurniture, TheBad
Tagged box wine, goon, wine bladder
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I couldn’t agree more
This photo I took many years ago on my first trip to Bali. We were walking along the main street down towards the beach at Kuta to watch the sunset. There, on the way, was this telephone box. (This was … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, StreetFurniture, TheUgly
Tagged #Graffiti, Bali, telephone boxes, vandalism
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More Brawn than Prawn
“The Big Things of Australia” are a loosely related set of large structures or sculptures. There are estimated to be over 150 such objects around the country. Most of these “Big Things” began as tourist traps found along major roads … Continue reading
Posted in QuestionableArt, StreetFurniture, TheBad
Tagged Ballina, The Big, The Big Prawn
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I love knit-wits
Yarn bombing or yarn storming, is also known as guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting. It includes colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre attached to ordinary objects in the street. Often these yarn installations (bombs or … Continue reading