shitting maggots, check.
maggot eating zombie piranha, check.
parasitic twin, check.
stupid looking hat, check.
ok Valevortex, your custom order is ready.
In this painting, the conjoined twin midget in the sombrero acts as a thinly veiled metaphor for the Protestant movement having come in and crapped worms all over the fish in the litterbox (which is quite obviously representative of the Catholic church)
The coffin hanging from the noose is symbolic of Baby Jesus weeping.
I do what I can (I know what you mean though! I would NOT want to encounter the person who whipped up these beauties in a desolate alleyway. Yowza. Chop people up and take their spleens as trophies, much?)
Boy do I disagree with addiosix! I think this obviously is a metaphor for the artworld, artist & viewers. The man uses a muse (aka twin) to express the colorful inner life he experiences (pretty hat). This muse facilitates his expression of inner turmoil (worms) to the world via art (the lovely painting itself). The viewer is the fish who greedily devours the mans art & smugly interprets it for his own use. The artist stares you head on and dares you to interpret your way into your own coffin.
I think this is on the cover of an Algebra text book, and the “artist” doodled it during class with marker. Then when he got expelled for not paying attention, and, it can only be assumed, his “rebel” attire, he glued the other stuff on.
I’ve seen worse doodled on textbooks in my day. It’s just a phase he’s going through.
Hey #11, being an art student I actually get what your saying, but what does the flaming hat the twin is wearing represent? Is he perhaps of a spanish, mexican, or south american decent? What bearing does this have on the painting on a whole?
And is it just me or does it look like the first twin is giving his brother a reason to be happy (wink, wink, nudge nudge, say no more.. say no more)?
I actually really like these. The textures, colors, shapes, and lines are beautiful. The subject matter is striking and surreal, reminiscent of Day of the Dead meets Frida Kahlo. If I had an extra hundred or so bucks, I would buy one of the paintings in his shop that does not involve worm-farts and implied incest between conjoined twins.
Maybe the one with the rooster smoking a cigarette and the fish dangling from a rope.
I actually kinda like where #20 (portable wig) was going with the pretty hat theory.
Perhaps it is collective memory instead of individual memory. Thinking about this in the light of a Jungian style collective unconscious, the 6 pink feathers could quite easily be representative of the 6 wives of Henry VIII.
Perhaps the artist is simply putting out strange art with no real clear meaning, except what the viewer puts to it. That way no one is offended, and someone out there will assign it a meaning which makes them love the art.
Or they’re just a pretentious ass, and I can’t get the meaning of any of these
Oh totally. I think you’re spot on save for I don’t think even that much thought was put into it. When one chooses to paint some conjoined twin crapping ass worms into a fish mouth —
it automatically gets filed into the category of that ‘special’ kind of art. Spleen trophy artwork.
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell
November 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], “raw art” or “rough art”), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates. – Wikipedia
wow, pretty snarky. i think its a great narrative piece, as are his other works, a bit illustrative, but none the less falls into a category of art, and doesn’t’ deserve to be among the other crap featured on regretsy, which is generally right on. btw, outsider art is no longer limited to the art of the “insane” but encompasses a larger genre of “uneducated” or “self-taught” artists and often time includes folk art. there are several museums across the nation devoted to outsider art.
As an advocate of the Butt Worm Aesthetic, I feel that the disjunctive perturbation of the sexual signifier contextualize the eloquence of this piece. With regard to the issue of content, the aura of the biomorphic forms seems very disturbing in light of the remarkable handling of light. I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned yet that the iconicity of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix brings within the realm of discourse the distinctive formal juxtapositions.
ROFL #50 martini!
That sounds like some of the bullshit I used to churn out for my “critique papers” in my (required) art history class back when I was an undergrad. You could present me with a stick figure on a piece of looseleaf notebook paper and I’d write a page and a half of pretentious fluff about it. (Professor loved it! I made an A! )
Outsider Artist is an artist that has no formal training…AKA Regretsy artist.
Actually very interesting. Art therapy in this area is used in assylums and care center for the mentally ill/challenged.
Some are quite good…
Then some..well…Sombraro
Soooo the mysterious coffin fish can only be caught with tape worms from a tranvestite with a parasetic twin and a small penis.. good to know for my next deep sea fishing trip.
In the context of art therapy: Art Therapy combines the creative process and psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration and understanding. Using imagery, colour, and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings may be expressed that would otherwise be difficult to articulate.
Well this would be hard to express or articulate properly, no? ;P But I still don’t understand the artist’s motivation for the subject matter.
Hey, at least this artist admits that if you comission them to do a portrait of you, it’ll not look anything like the photo you sent.
Honesty! love it!
Did anyone notice it says “comodo” on the second coffin that’s hanging on the rope? I mean, I was totally getting the painting’s meaning, up until I saw the comodo written… I think I’m so confused I’m not buying it anymore!
oh dear god and holly hell. *shudder* im sad.. very sad a book was damaged in the process of creating this horrible monstrosity. I collect rare books. kills me to know they probably destroyed something MORE interesting and valuable to make this awful shit.
Hey they really could be on to something here!! For years we’ve enjoyed corn-fed chicken. So whats wrong with a bit of cornhole fed dogfish??? Although the fish looks more like a shaved otter with Cadillac type aesthetics
I went to this guys art show last night and it was amazing. His stuff is shocking and hard to understand, but at the same time it is beautiful and full of talent. He also showed a series of short animated films, and they too were great.
November 19, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Priceless view in a room Helen!!! LMAO!!
November 19, 2009 at 4:06 pm
how has this not sold yet!
November 19, 2009 at 4:06 pm
It’s what’s for dinner…
November 19, 2009 at 4:08 pm
jumpin jelly beans! what book was this?
November 19, 2009 at 4:15 pm
shitting maggots, check.
maggot eating zombie piranha, check.
parasitic twin, check.
stupid looking hat, check.
ok Valevortex, your custom order is ready.
November 19, 2009 at 4:20 pm
looks like that parasitic twin could use a butt shield
November 19, 2009 at 4:20 pm
suffering succotash.
November 19, 2009 at 4:21 pm
It didn’t make any sense until I saw the coffin in the noose in the background, and then it all came together. It’s like a rebus. Very clever.
November 19, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Yes waiter, I’d like to order the organic, parasitic-twin raised, tapeworm-fed grilled salmon, please.
The best “view in a room” EVER!
November 19, 2009 at 4:22 pm
rebus no, short bus, yes
November 19, 2009 at 4:24 pm
In this painting, the conjoined twin midget in the sombrero acts as a thinly veiled metaphor for the Protestant movement having come in and crapped worms all over the fish in the litterbox (which is quite obviously representative of the Catholic church)
The coffin hanging from the noose is symbolic of Baby Jesus weeping.
November 19, 2009 at 4:26 pm
soo… the parasitic twin has parasites… and the fish is eating them from his butt.
makes perfect sense to me.
November 19, 2009 at 4:26 pm
nice addiosix- this whole site makes the baby Jesus weep
November 19, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Does the baby have tapeworm?
November 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm
from the shop home page:
If you want me to paint a portrait of you that will not look like you…
classic
November 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm
An image like that at least requires an artist explanation.
November 19, 2009 at 4:34 pm
If the discarded book cover on which this is painted is from a copy of Going Rogue, then this painting makes perfect sense.
November 19, 2009 at 4:37 pm
#13 NinjaGato :
I do what I can
(I know what you mean though! I would NOT want to encounter the person who whipped up these beauties in a desolate alleyway. Yowza. Chop people up and take their spleens as trophies, much?)
November 19, 2009 at 4:40 pm
#15 Stingray Charles :
‘Going Rouge: The Whimsicle Years’
November 19, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Boy do I disagree with addiosix! I think this obviously is a metaphor for the artworld, artist & viewers. The man uses a muse (aka twin) to express the colorful inner life he experiences (pretty hat). This muse facilitates his expression of inner turmoil (worms) to the world via art (the lovely painting itself). The viewer is the fish who greedily devours the mans art & smugly interprets it for his own use. The artist stares you head on and dares you to interpret your way into your own coffin.
November 19, 2009 at 4:41 pm
AKA he wishes you the viewer would die.
November 19, 2009 at 4:43 pm
#17 addiosix: LOL@(yes!)work, thanks.
November 19, 2009 at 4:43 pm
yeah i’ve spent a little too much time in art theory classes, penultimate in the ‘making up of bullshit as though you can read an artists mind’…
November 19, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Crap, maybe that’s all wrong, I think now I’m on board with #15 Stingray Charles. Sarah Palin is behind this!
November 19, 2009 at 4:49 pm
This painting needs a little dash of color in the lower right corner, maybe the twins should be wearing Astrid Spats,
November 19, 2009 at 4:50 pm
You just made me lie to my kid, Helen. I had to tell him I was giggling uncontrollably over Judge Judy.
November 19, 2009 at 4:52 pm
SAY WHAT?
November 19, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I think this is on the cover of an Algebra text book, and the “artist” doodled it during class with marker. Then when he got expelled for not paying attention, and, it can only be assumed, his “rebel” attire, he glued the other stuff on.
I’ve seen worse doodled on textbooks in my day. It’s just a phase he’s going through.
November 19, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Hey #11, being an art student I actually get what your saying, but what does the flaming hat the twin is wearing represent? Is he perhaps of a spanish, mexican, or south american decent? What bearing does this have on the painting on a whole?
And is it just me or does it look like the first twin is giving his brother a reason to be happy (wink, wink, nudge nudge, say no more.. say no more)?
November 19, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Here, he is obviously inspired by the “Say What” painting. He’s growing as an artist.
November 19, 2009 at 5:08 pm
#25 Stingray Charles :
haha.. I casually had a cup up to my mouth when I read that, and I almost snorted a drink of water up my nose.
November 19, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I don’t, it’s just, I am, I’m not….no words.
November 19, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I actually really like these. The textures, colors, shapes, and lines are beautiful. The subject matter is striking and surreal, reminiscent of Day of the Dead meets Frida Kahlo. If I had an extra hundred or so bucks, I would buy one of the paintings in his shop that does not involve worm-farts and implied incest between conjoined twins.
Maybe the one with the rooster smoking a cigarette and the fish dangling from a rope.
November 19, 2009 at 5:18 pm
#29 Avivafae :
I actually kinda like where #20 (portable wig) was going with the pretty hat theory.
Perhaps it is collective memory instead of individual memory. Thinking about this in the light of a Jungian style collective unconscious, the 6 pink feathers could quite easily be representative of the 6 wives of Henry VIII.
November 19, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Perhaps the artist is simply putting out strange art with no real clear meaning, except what the viewer puts to it. That way no one is offended, and someone out there will assign it a meaning which makes them love the art.
Or they’re just a pretentious ass, and I can’t get the meaning of any of these
November 19, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Profile says: “My life is based in a true story”
maybe “in” a public bathroom Kamikazee!!
November 19, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Brooklyn’s In The House!
November 19, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Brown Hanky
November 19, 2009 at 5:29 pm
oh, and one of the tags says “outsider art”
to the art students…what is that??
November 19, 2009 at 5:31 pm
means “can’t get a gallery showing” Kimmer-G
November 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm
#34 WrathOfFoamy :
Oh totally. I think you’re spot on
save for I don’t think even that much thought was put into it. When one chooses to paint some conjoined twin crapping ass worms into a fish mouth —
it automatically gets filed into the category of that ‘special’ kind of art. Spleen trophy artwork.
November 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], “raw art” or “rough art”), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates. – Wikipedia
November 19, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Brown hanky art.
November 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm
:0
November 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm
touche addiosix
November 19, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Going to disinfect my eyeballs and roto-root my brain….
November 19, 2009 at 5:40 pm
#44 Kamikaze
*blush*
*humble curtsy*
*readies sacrificial offering of 10 penises*
November 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm
*Passes Goodness the brain acid*
Try this! It works for homoerotic stories as well!
November 19, 2009 at 5:50 pm
wow, pretty snarky. i think its a great narrative piece, as are his other works, a bit illustrative, but none the less falls into a category of art, and doesn’t’ deserve to be among the other crap featured on regretsy, which is generally right on. btw, outsider art is no longer limited to the art of the “insane” but encompasses a larger genre of “uneducated” or “self-taught” artists and often time includes folk art. there are several museums across the nation devoted to outsider art.
November 19, 2009 at 5:54 pm
DD and Martini wrote almost the same thing, but only one of them was being funny.
November 19, 2009 at 5:51 pm
As an advocate of the Butt Worm Aesthetic, I feel that the disjunctive perturbation of the sexual signifier contextualize the eloquence of this piece. With regard to the issue of content, the aura of the biomorphic forms seems very disturbing in light of the remarkable handling of light. I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned yet that the iconicity of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix brings within the realm of discourse the distinctive formal juxtapositions.
November 19, 2009 at 5:54 pm
WAIT A MINUTE. Is there a bear holding a gun in the background of this painting, but painted over?
November 19, 2009 at 5:59 pm
#49 huh?
does all that mean you’re a pretentious ass too?
November 19, 2009 at 6:02 pm
#49 martini :
I want to sit at the lunch table with you now, pls kthnx. I will share my tasty Little Debbie cookie with you. The one with the frosting inside.
However, you say ‘Butt Worm Aesthetic’ again, I will give you the whole thing.
November 19, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I like it
November 19, 2009 at 6:05 pm
ROFL #50 martini!
)
That sounds like some of the bullshit I used to churn out for my “critique papers” in my (required) art history class back when I was an undergrad. You could present me with a stick figure on a piece of looseleaf notebook paper and I’d write a page and a half of pretentious fluff about it. (Professor loved it! I made an A!
November 19, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I like you
November 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Mmmmmm… Little Debbies…
November 19, 2009 at 6:08 pm
#56 hammerhead77 : I may have been your professor.
November 19, 2009 at 6:10 pm
#50 martini, rather..
that was weird (I c/p-ed that)
I think fairies are inside of the WordPress software chewing on the wiring.
November 19, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I think we can all agree the hat is FABU!
November 19, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Outsider Artist is an artist that has no formal training…AKA Regretsy artist.
Actually very interesting. Art therapy in this area is used in assylums and care center for the mentally ill/challenged.
Some are quite good…
Then some..well…Sombraro
November 19, 2009 at 6:22 pm
addiosex, been happening all day, posts mysteriously appear, bumping others down the line, only just saw your pumpkin penis post, for example.
November 19, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Very unusual stuff. I have to give it to him for creativity.
#37 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :
Brooklyn’s In The House!
Yes, all the weirdos live here, don’t ya know.
November 19, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I like brooklyn
November 19, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Soooo the mysterious coffin fish can only be caught with tape worms from a tranvestite with a parasetic twin and a small penis.. good to know for my next deep sea fishing trip.
November 19, 2009 at 6:46 pm
From his shop announcement: “If you want me to paint a portrait of you that will not look like you…”
This is what I’ve always wanted.
November 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm
#67
Sybil portrait
November 19, 2009 at 7:04 pm
#61 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :
I think we can all agree the hat is FABU!
Off to request a custom item!
November 19, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Maybe I don’t need to request a custom hat! (The antlers are a MAJOR bonus!)
November 19, 2009 at 7:09 pm
#6 made me choke on my carrott.HAHAH!
November 19, 2009 at 7:11 pm
In the context of art therapy: Art Therapy combines the creative process and psychotherapy, facilitating self-exploration and understanding. Using imagery, colour, and shape as part of this creative therapeutic process, thoughts and feelings may be expressed that would otherwise be difficult to articulate.
Well this would be hard to express or articulate properly, no? ;P But I still don’t understand the artist’s motivation for the subject matter.
November 19, 2009 at 7:12 pm
#70 Lara :
Maybe I don’t need to request a custom hat! (The antlers are a MAJOR bonus!)
———–
Stunning!! It would go great with yellow and lace spats ;P
November 19, 2009 at 7:13 pm
shit like this makes me depressed…$100 for a (s)crapped book cover..where am I going wrong????
November 19, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Hey, at least this artist admits that if you comission them to do a portrait of you, it’ll not look anything like the photo you sent.
Honesty! love it!
November 19, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Arghhh my brain!
November 19, 2009 at 8:12 pm
just threw up in my mouth a little…..
November 19, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I’m really missing out.
November 19, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Cut the price by 90% and I’d buy it.
November 19, 2009 at 10:14 pm
If this was cheap, I’d but it for one of the creeps I know. Yeah, I know a few.
November 19, 2009 at 11:48 pm
That was some hoe down….
p
x
November 20, 2009 at 12:58 am
Okay.
My first impression was that I liked this.
And then I stared at it for a while, trying to not like it and… The more I look at it, the more I really like it. Haha. Must go look at shop.
: )
November 20, 2009 at 2:10 am
very.very.disturbed.
November 20, 2009 at 2:53 am
I worry about the state of mind of humanity sometimes. I really do.
November 20, 2009 at 4:56 am
#82 I agree. I really like this artist’s work, myself. I probably wouldn’t buy this particular piece, but I’m thinking about buying this one: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34735511
November 20, 2009 at 6:00 am
Did anyone notice it says “comodo” on the second coffin that’s hanging on the rope? I mean, I was totally getting the painting’s meaning, up until I saw the comodo written… I think I’m so confused I’m not buying it anymore!
November 20, 2009 at 7:50 am
The “View this in a room” was great!
November 20, 2009 at 8:49 am
martini – Are you also an advocate of the Butt Necklace Aesthetic?
November 20, 2009 at 10:54 am
The fish looks like the baby in “Eraserhead.”
November 20, 2009 at 11:00 am
Can someone help the slow girl understand the title, “Pez de la Nalgas”?
November 20, 2009 at 11:08 am
Loosely translated, it means “fish of the butt.”
November 20, 2009 at 11:25 am
#91 STG: Thanks! I thought it meant Pez (the candy) of the butt, as if the parasitic twin’s ass was a Pez dispenser. Duh on me!
November 20, 2009 at 11:29 am
I hadn’t thought of that, Stingray Charles, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Helen was making a pun on that.
November 20, 2009 at 11:44 am
#93 STG: You’re right. Why do you think the standing twin has a Moe Howard hairdo?
November 20, 2009 at 11:52 am
I don’t get the Moe Howard connection (and I’m a big Stooges fan).
November 20, 2009 at 2:14 pm
oh dear god and holly hell. *shudder* im sad.. very sad a book was damaged in the process of creating this horrible monstrosity. I collect rare books. kills me to know they probably destroyed something MORE interesting and valuable to make this awful shit.
November 20, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I reeally like this one.
But I don’t have any money.
http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.102934453.jpg
November 20, 2009 at 3:07 pm
#88 hammerhead77 : Actually no… I’m an advocate of the Mud Flap Aesthetic… Big difference.
November 20, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I have no words.
November 20, 2009 at 6:17 pm
#25 Stingray Charles :
This painting needs a little dash of color in the lower right corner, maybe the twins should be wearing Astrid Spats,
__________________
I love you more than there are vaginas on Etsy!
November 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm
And yay! Now I am a hugely pregnant guinea pig!
November 20, 2009 at 9:24 pm
#100 AA: The feeling’s mutual. And please don’t let your spouse eat your babies.
November 21, 2009 at 12:00 am
Hey they really could be on to something here!! For years we’ve enjoyed corn-fed chicken. So whats wrong with a bit of cornhole fed dogfish??? Although the fish looks more like a shaved otter with Cadillac type aesthetics
November 21, 2009 at 12:13 pm
The fish looks kind of like a baby seal. I wonder if I could purchase this and say this is a portrait of my dead baby seal pet?
November 21, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Anyone else hungry?
November 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I’m very upset that I can’t unsee that.
January 30, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I went to this guys art show last night and it was amazing. His stuff is shocking and hard to understand, but at the same time it is beautiful and full of talent. He also showed a series of short animated films, and they too were great.
May 14, 2011 at 3:17 am
If there was a “WEIRD draw contest” this one ‘d be the winner. Guarenty!