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The Museum Of Bad Art, MOBA, is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art.
► The Museum of Bad Art

The Museum of Other Art
The Museum promote an inclusive attitude towards all art, a culture that is open to many different ways of seeing and visualizing. A culture that invites the Other: the different, complex, ambivalent, individual, simple, seductive, vulgar, joyful, humoristic, ugly and subjective.
► The Museum of Other Art

► Bert Christensen's Weird, Strange & Just Plain Bad Art Collection

► Museum of Particularly Bad Art
► Bar Code Art
► UNPOP ART
► This is Bad Art by David Bradbury
► Bert Christensen's Cyberspace
► Komar & Melamid, The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web

► Piggyback Art by Eddie Breen
► The PSB Gallery of Thrift Store Art
► Museum im Lagerhaus
► Anthony Petullo Collection
► L'Aracine
► Outsider Art.info
► Outsider Artworld
► The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art

Iki
An iki thing is simple, improvised, straight, restrained, temporary, romantic, ephemeral, original, refined or inconspicuous. An iki person would be audacious, indifferent, chic, calm, pert, tacit, sassy, unselfconscious, unintentionally coquettish, open-minded or restrained
► Iki/wikipedia

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

Coastal Breeze II Art Print
Kimble, Warren
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics is the formal study of art, specially with the relation to the idea of beauty. Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of philosophy and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.
► Aesthetics/wikipedia

Beauty
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Beauty = the quality of being pleasing to look at, or someone or something that gives great pleasure.
► Beauty/wikipedia

Wabi-sabi
Japanese arts have been influenced by Zen philosophy and the acceptance and contemplation of the imperfection. Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asperity, simplicity, modesty and asymmetry. Wabi-sabi aesthetic arts example: bonsai, Zen gardens and ikebana
► Wabi-sabi/wikipedia
► Wabi-Sabi Art
► The Art of Bonsai
► The Bonsai Site
► Japanese Aesthetics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
► Japanese Aesthetics and the Garden

Savants and Outsider Art
Outsider art is the term used to refer to creative works made by people with no formal art training who create work based on their inner experience, without reference to mainstream art practice.

Savant Syndrome describes a person with both a severe mental handicap and with extraordinary mental abilities. The Savant Syndrome often include unusual skills in arithmetic calculation or abilities in art or music.
In the movie "Rain Man" Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) discover he has an unknown autistic-savant older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman).
More about Rain Man and Savants syndrome: Wisconsin Medical Society

► Ferdinand Cheval, Insolite Art, mfl
► RawVision, about Outsider Art
► The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
► abcd Art Brut
► The Prinzhorn Collection
► Henry Boxer Gallery
► Focal Art Gallery
► Carl Hammer Gallery
► L'Aracine
► Gilles Trehin who created the city Urville
► Stephen Wiltshire

Grotesque profile, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.