barbkeith
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posted on January 7, 2002 06:20:14 PM
I picked this up at an auction Friday night. It was so ugly I had to buy it for $1.00. Anyone up for a challenge?
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roadsmith
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posted on January 7, 2002 10:03:49 PM
*Somebody* had extra red and green paint left over from something! Yikes. Too awful. No, I cannot top that!
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 7, 2002 10:53:20 PM
I have had things uglier than that. I sold them all so I can't compete at the moment!
That is really ugly. Homemade?
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thedewey
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posted on January 7, 2002 11:19:30 PM
Back in the 70's when I was a kid, my mom would take me to ceramics class. Back then, wild splotchy colors were "the thing".  My creations were (thankfully) a bit more conservative than hers. She liked green, gold, orange, and yellow ... all on the same very "loud" piece! 
I've still got one of the things she made, although it's come apart over the years. It's a big mushroom painted green on top, with splotchy colors, with a tannish-brown stem. The mushroom is on a green base, and around the mushroom are 3 rabbits and 3 frogs. The animals are kinda cute, but that mushroom is quite a piece of "art"! he he
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RainyBear
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posted on January 8, 2002 02:34:55 PM
It's not only the colors but the *shape* that makes this ashtray a special one.
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saabsister
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posted on January 8, 2002 03:30:45 PM
" a pleasing mixture of geometric and organic shapes - the contrasting colors add excitement to an object both functional and aesthetically pleasing - an excellent choice for your retro pad - even calls to mind Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. Don't let this one get away..."
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richierich
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posted on January 8, 2002 03:39:25 PM
When I worked in Lawrence Kansas there was a small restaurant in downtown (can not thing of the name) they had ashtrays like that! They always told us no one will steal them.
I bet it sells and you can laugh all the way to the bank!
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roadsmith
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posted on January 8, 2002 04:19:17 PM
Saabsister has the right idea; good description there!
Have you heard of the Museum of Bad Art? I saw a feature on it once, on TV. It was amazing in its poor taste. An art professor had had a couple of bad pieces to show his students, and they started bringing in more. The museum now fills his garage and another building plus part of his home. I'm sure he has to be selective now in what he chooses to accept.
We inherited a cabin from an uncle with horrid taste who thought he was an artist. The walls were covered with nicely framed "art" he'd done from their trip slides; every piece had a lot of purple in it because that was his wife's favorite color. Probably the 3 feet x 5 feet painting of can-can dancers in Paris was the absolute worst. In fact, before he died someone had broken into the cabin, taken very little, and slashed right through that painting, but he'd kept it on the wall. We finally burned it in our campfire over a two-night period.
But the funniest part was when I took some of his smaller framed paintings to a local thrift shop. I was there one day, saw a nicely dressed man carrying out one of the better of the awful paintings. Like an idiot, I rushed over and told him I'd donated them; my husband's uncle had painted them. He looked at me funny, took a couple of beats, and told me he'd bought them for the frames. Said he's an artist. LOL
There is NO accounting for taste.
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yellowstone
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posted on January 9, 2002 02:22:30 PM
I don't think it's ugly at all, in fact it would fit in nicely with all my other junk that decorates my house. I think it's kinda cute. How much do ya want for it, i'll give ya $2.00 for it and you'll make a 100% profit. I'd use it for a chip and dip tray rather than an ashtray. Chips in the middle with salsa, bean dip, onion dip etc. in the little compartments.
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saabsister
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posted on January 9, 2002 04:17:08 PM
Roadsmith, I saw a travelling exhibit from the Museum of Bad Art. What a hoot! I even bought the exhibition catalogue. You could hear the snickers all over the gallery as people read the descriptions of the paintings. (I think the museum has a site on line.)
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sweetpotato
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posted on January 9, 2002 07:13:38 PM
Museum of Bad Art
They even have an online giftshop
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snowyegret
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posted on January 9, 2002 07:24:30 PM
Sweetpotato, just the gifts for those special relatives.
Rawbunzel's tiki was uglier than that ashtray. It was one of the fugliest things I ever saw. It looked like it was made by a drunken beginner.
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 9, 2002 08:37:04 PM
HEY!I sold that Tiki for $15.00. Not bad for a 50 cent investment! This ashtray will probably sell for that much too if it goes on the market. Sometimes ugly is good.
Waving "HI" to all of you up there!
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roadsmith
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posted on January 9, 2002 08:54:41 PM
God, I love the gift shop of MOBA. You must see the postcards and notecards. Prices are very reasonable, too (no royalties to the artists, I guess). And the descriptions of the traveling exhibits. . . too funny!
Maybe we should set up a MOBA award and have monthly prizes and a nomination to the MOBA for the winner.
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sweetpotato
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posted on January 9, 2002 09:42:23 PM
There was a tiki? How did I miss that?!
I must admit, I keep getting drawn back to the MOBA gift shop. Something compelling about the shirts - I think my husband's going to get this for our anniversary at the end of this month.
Hi back to Rawbunzel!
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kraftdinner
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posted on January 9, 2002 09:57:14 PM
"Can you top this ugly ashtray?"
Yes. 
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 9, 2002 11:17:49 PM
Hi Sweetpotato! I'm sure your husband would really appreciate that T-shirt! They have some interesting things there at the MOBA gift shop,don't they?
I posted the Tiki in a picture thread not too long ago. I'll have to see if I still have the picture somewhere. It really was ugly. I was surprised when someone bought it.
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barbkeith
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posted on January 10, 2002 03:37:08 AM
Just wanted you all to know that I'm going to list this ashtray tomorrow. Any suggestions for the title? Should I or should I not put hideous or ugly in the title. How about "Art Deco" or unusual?
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ThriftStoreQueen
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posted on January 10, 2002 06:17:25 PM
Funny because last summer my husband and I seen something similiar with matching lighters. It was $5.00. He insisted I could sell it but I passed. I couldn't imagine being stuck with it if it didn't sell.
Of course he begged me to get it so we turned the car around to go back and sure enough some man was walking to his car carrying it. Wonder if he sold it?
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mcjane
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posted on January 12, 2002 06:18:52 PM
barbkeith I'll take that challenge. You want to see ugly, take a look at this. 
A girl I worked with gave it to me (about ten years ago) because I like animals. Sure do, specially if their wearing a pin stripe suit.....
[ edited by mcjane on Jan 12, 2002 06:22 PM ]
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