It’s kind of like how my English degree guarantees that there will always be a half-finished novel on my hard drive. But I have the common sense not to try to sell that shit on the internet.
So, I guess ‘abstract’ has come to mean ‘shit I threw together when I was really drunk/high’. A long time ago abstract was picasso, and other artists I can’t think of. Even abstact expressionism had more going for it than this (george baselitz). My point is, this isn’t abstract, it’s probably the clap.
Not to mention that the paper is probably pretty expensive. This isn’t even worth it’s weight. It’s lost value. This is “look Mom, it’s a bunny!” “Sure dear, be a sport and get Mommy more gin”. Lost in a childhood where nobody cared, the world must be tormented by the bunny that nobody cared to put on the fridge. So much pain, for so long.
… I’m really warped.
I can feel the anger in her works. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that her works are done with a stick up her ass. Notably, the paintbrush, the charcoal, and the pastels.
If this isn’t a joke, then it’s a bet. “I bet I could set up a profitable Etsy account of what my toddler does in his diaper after eating finger paints.”
That’s passion, people. That’s the drive it takes to become a successful artist. It separates the good artists from the great ones. I just know that DiVinci looked at the unfinished eyebrows of the Mona Lisa and said “Close Enough.” Art History is filled with unfinished work that was completed with that very phrase.
I amend my 90% vaginas comment. Seems to be split between vaginas and pears quite evenly. Good to know a mention on Regretsy can spike the price of your art.
I was thinking she probably teaches with the Mural Arts Program (they do a lot of work with underprivileged kids in depressed neighborhoods like North Philly), but everyone I know who works with that organization has at least a modicum of actual talent.
#1 Dynomoose- That was my first reaction too! Pratt must be going down in expectations.
Although i do remember some of the people I went to art school with… never mind, this makes perfect sense.
It saddens me that she can make money of these. I think I must be putting too much effort into my work.
One time in art class, when I was little, I ate a box of crayons and then threw up on my paper. If I had known I could sell that, I would be a richer woman indeed.
I thought she WAS an elementary school art student. I have some paintings from my daughter that look suspiciously like this, but she was 4 when she painted them.
Don’t worry about carefully packaging the item lovey, the postal service couldn’t do anymore damage than you have already done – they may even improve it.
One of the painting that she sold is actually kind of interesting. I think she did one herself, got lazy and decided to grab the rest from her students.
Does it looks something is running down the page on the right? That gives “mixed media” a whole new definition – draw/paint/ass splatter some shit on a piece of paper, and jizz on it, and waa laa! Forgive me for not being “artsy fartsy” but is Pratt Institute one of those places that advertise in matchbooks and the back of cheap magazines under captions that say things like “DRAW PIGGY”?
June 28, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Wait, this woman has a degree from PRATT? W T F????????????
June 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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June 28, 2010 at 2:06 pm
How is this mixed media? Did she use the tears of her students or something?
June 28, 2010 at 2:07 pm
She also seems to be selling some of the little nippers’ works on Etsy.
June 28, 2010 at 2:07 pm
It’s kind of like how my English degree guarantees that there will always be a half-finished novel on my hard drive. But I have the common sense not to try to sell that shit on the internet.
June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm
It is obviously a walrus basking on a pebble lined beach. What’s wrong w/ you people!?!? Have you no VISION!?!?!?!!!?!?
June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm
It says she attended Pratt but it doesn’t say anything about graduation.
*nods*
June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm
There is a vagoo in about half of the paintings in this shop….
I like her use of color!
June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm
does anyone else see a vagina?
June 28, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I call vagina on this one!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/47846337/sure-to-remember
June 28, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I think she stole this off the fridge when doing an at-home parent/teacher conference.
June 28, 2010 at 2:13 pm
She should be ashamed of herself- stealing her students work and passing it off as her own…
June 28, 2010 at 2:14 pm
My Daughter did something like this on the wall.What is left of it after I scrubbed the walls she points at every now and then and announces, NAUGHTY.
She is trying to sell a naughty.
June 28, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Aww, I remember the first drawing that *I* did that my mum put on the fridge.
Although, I didn’t try to sell it when I became an adult.
June 28, 2010 at 2:19 pm
So, I guess ‘abstract’ has come to mean ‘shit I threw together when I was really drunk/high’. A long time ago abstract was picasso, and other artists I can’t think of. Even abstact expressionism had more going for it than this (george baselitz). My point is, this isn’t abstract, it’s probably the clap.
June 28, 2010 at 2:20 pm
#7 itsdanilove, but that means she was accepted.
June 28, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Take out the green and blue and it looks very much like the stain my dog made on the rug when she ate a squirrel and got pancreatitis.
June 28, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Reminds me of my 4 year old’s picture of Rainbow Fish.
June 28, 2010 at 2:23 pm
#16 Dynomoose Unless by “studied” she means she studied real students’ art through the windows.
June 28, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I know art, and you sir, are no ‘art’.
June 28, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Those who can’t do, teach.
(no offense to teachers, my mom was one for 25 years. it’s just apt at this moment.)
June 28, 2010 at 2:25 pm
So much, so long. That’s what you’ll say about the money you spent on this!
June 28, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Gotta’ disagree about can’t do , then teach.
I’ve had teachers & professors that can do & do it well, & can teach , & do that well.
June 28, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Not to mention that the paper is probably pretty expensive. This isn’t even worth it’s weight. It’s lost value. This is “look Mom, it’s a bunny!” “Sure dear, be a sport and get Mommy more gin”. Lost in a childhood where nobody cared, the world must be tormented by the bunny that nobody cared to put on the fridge. So much pain, for so long.
… I’m really warped.
June 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm
I can feel the anger in her works. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that her works are done with a stick up her ass. Notably, the paintbrush, the charcoal, and the pastels.
June 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm
American Intercontinental University, eh? Online diploma I bet. Someone couldn’t cut it at Pratt.
June 28, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Shit. I should read mf titles of things.
I made a smelly.
June 28, 2010 at 2:30 pm
I’d pay extra for a painting like this if it came with a video of the artist screaming obscenities at the canvas while she worked.
June 28, 2010 at 2:31 pm
#26 geektastic, it’s more likely that she studied at the American Incontinent University.
June 28, 2010 at 2:35 pm
If this isn’t a joke, then it’s a bet. “I bet I could set up a profitable Etsy account of what my toddler does in his diaper after eating finger paints.”
June 28, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Is she sure that’s original? It seems to be an exact replica of what my dog puked up after she ate a box of crayons…
June 28, 2010 at 2:40 pm
One of her works is titled “Close Enough”.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46681992/close-enough?ref=v1_other_1
That’s passion, people. That’s the drive it takes to become a successful artist. It separates the good artists from the great ones. I just know that DiVinci looked at the unfinished eyebrows of the Mona Lisa and said “Close Enough.” Art History is filled with unfinished work that was completed with that very phrase.
Brava!
Brava!
June 28, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Looked in her store. Is it me or does 90% of the “art” resemble a vagina?
June 28, 2010 at 2:43 pm
#34 Knittin-kitten, Much of her work has also gone pear-shaped.
June 28, 2010 at 2:53 pm
And since being featured on here, the price has gone up $15…
June 28, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Sometimes I regret not going to art school but then I see this and feel better!
June 28, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Because I consider getting a degree from an online university that has trademarked the phrase:
We are dedicated to Supporting Your Success™.
: really does mean your an artist. Or something.
June 28, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Oddly enough, I don’t feel bad about the snarky comments.
I must be a horrible person. Or something…
June 28, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Take a look at their shop
I think that defines a creative rut.
And yeah–some vagoo fixation too.
June 28, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I think this is a psychological test, like a colorized Rorschach. I see a picture of the Pope, on Halloween, in a downpour.
June 28, 2010 at 3:52 pm
I amend my 90% vaginas comment. Seems to be split between vaginas and pears quite evenly. Good to know a mention on Regretsy can spike the price of your art.
June 28, 2010 at 3:58 pm
@RuthX #3: I think it’s mixed media because she glued on some wool (yarn). At least, that blue squiggle looks to me like it’s glued on.
June 28, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I think it’s a whale with a short fluke shooting up through the water.
June 28, 2010 at 4:36 pm
“She now teaches art to elentary students in North Philadelphia.”
…. since losing the use of her hands.
(By the way, I am a product of the Philadelphia Public School System – 30 years ago – and I am a graduate of a respected art school in Philadelphia.)
June 28, 2010 at 4:52 pm
She’d better get her art *copyrited before someone tries to rip her off……….
*see next post
June 28, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Now children, this is how we make mixed media merkins…
June 28, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I was thinking she probably teaches with the Mural Arts Program (they do a lot of work with underprivileged kids in depressed neighborhoods like North Philly), but everyone I know who works with that organization has at least a modicum of actual talent.
June 28, 2010 at 7:50 pm
#1 Dynomoose- That was my first reaction too! Pratt must be going down in expectations.
Although i do remember some of the people I went to art school with… never mind, this makes perfect sense.
It saddens me that she can make money of these. I think I must be putting too much effort into my work.
June 28, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Looks like all she learned in art school was how to make a pratfall!
June 28, 2010 at 9:19 pm
This is obviously a criminal parrot in a death hood that has just been executed by hanging.
June 28, 2010 at 10:17 pm
One time in art class, when I was little, I ate a box of crayons and then threw up on my paper. If I had known I could sell that, I would be a richer woman indeed.
June 28, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Studied “Educational Leadership” at American Intercontinental University?
Well that is a great place to learn how to rip off people.
Besides, isn’t teaching art in elementary school OFFICIALLY the bottom of the Education Leadership ladder?
June 28, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Who murdered the rainbow?
June 29, 2010 at 12:11 am
i am so glad this is carefully packaged.
June 29, 2010 at 1:32 am
70 bucks for someone’s explosion from their ass on paper? Nahh
June 29, 2010 at 3:52 am
I thought she WAS an elementary school art student. I have some paintings from my daughter that look suspiciously like this, but she was 4 when she painted them.
June 29, 2010 at 3:57 am
and she’s from Philly. Sigh. I
June 29, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Took another look at it. I still don’t see mixed media. Does remind me of the night where I drank way too many mixed drinks.
June 29, 2010 at 6:16 pm
I think I made that one night after a night of binge-drinking Sour Puss and Banana-Jagers…
June 30, 2010 at 7:05 am
So sweet. 2 days after being Regretsy’d and a price hike of 20%, this item (“Two Turds In Rainbow Sauce”) is still unsold.
June 30, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I can’t decide if I admire her courage to sell these, or feel sorry for her delusion that these are worth $85 each.
If you look at these in sequence, they’re actually interesting. Not attractive, not skilled, but interesting. And utterly indecipherable.
And if they were little 2.5×3.5 inch trading cards (called ACEO), I’d probably spend a few bucks trading her for some of my own (crappy) art cards.
Some think there’s no definition of Art other than “I say so.” I blame them for…
June 30, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Don’t worry about carefully packaging the item lovey, the postal service couldn’t do anymore damage than you have already done – they may even improve it.
August 19, 2010 at 4:44 pm
One of the painting that she sold is actually kind of interesting. I think she did one herself, got lazy and decided to grab the rest from her students.
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/25287241
August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am
I weep for your country’s artistic future….
September 9, 2010 at 10:07 am
Does it looks something is running down the page on the right? That gives “mixed media” a whole new definition – draw/paint/ass splatter some shit on a piece of paper, and jizz on it, and waa laa! Forgive me for not being “artsy fartsy” but is Pratt Institute one of those places that advertise in matchbooks and the back of cheap magazines under captions that say things like “DRAW PIGGY”?
January 18, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I see a Bishop with his face in his hands crying because the boy told authorities that the Bishop had done so much for so long.
April 22, 2011 at 11:26 pm
A school where the buses are half the size.