Active Years: 1923-1997
Position: A central figure of American post-war art and Pop Art master, best-known for his adaptation of comic book imagery.
Career Highlights: Cezanne, 1962 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles); Hopeless, 1963 (Kunstmuseum, Basel); Still Life with Goldfish, 1974 (Museum of Art, Philadelphia); Mural with Blue Brush Stroke, 1985 (Equitable Real [...]

‘Waterhead’ by Jim Dietz
Up to his ears in it? In over his head? The artist has something to say here, but just what that may be is a mystery! In any case, the redness of the eyes indicate there is either chlorine in this pool - or the subject is intoxicated…..which if a self-portrait would [...]

‘Three Familiar Faces’ by Bernier
I heard about this painting long before I acquired it - disembodied dog heads, floating on canvas board, staring out at the viewer with the kind of scrunched-up rat-dog mugs only your mother could love - and does - as she applies that long slow french-kiss to the hideous beasts the [...]

‘Serene Hell-fire’ by O’Brian
Heaven or hell? Obviously, this woman has made her choice. Flames wrap around grasping fingers while the feet of Christ reminds us who died for our sins! Lead me not into temptation to paint well, for verily, these badly painted, symbolic religous paintings are exquisitely poor and wacko

‘Evil Clown Boy’ by Unknown
This delightfully disturbing piece features a gleeful demented clown boy strangling a puppy while sitting on a flowering daisy tree not found in nature. Obviously an artistic attempt at cuteness gone awry - however, a positively successful tour-de-bad! A+++!

‘Come Hither Mary’ by O’Brian
Remarkably unperturbed by the crucifixtion taking place behind her, this Virgin is much too sexy-looking to be taken seriously as the mother of God! Perhaps this is Mary Magdalen, the reformed prostitute! But still, with the son of God dangling behind her, she is looking a mite too flirtatious - although [...]

‘Football Frenzy’ by Unknown

Here, the artist renders that deliciously atrocious athletic exhibition; the football game! However, it seems to this critic that the artist should study a little bit about his subject before passing on his cockeyed convasses to immortality. Why are there two quarterbacks in the field - Numbers 13 + 14, as evidenced [...]

‘Dances With Torah’ by Unknown
I decided to give Christian art a break this week and pick on one of the other great world religions! Here, twin Rabbis hug their Torahs in religious ecstacy! Fortunately for us, the Torahs are lumpy, the colors ugly, and the rendering crude! Hallelujah! I personally pray that God keeps providing [...]

‘Personal Armageddon’ by Whittaker
Somebody was having a really bad day! Note the hands scratching back in the dirt, while the subject, unseen, prepares to fall back into this hellish chasm! A little demon gleefully waves goodby! A demon war rages in the background! Yikes! One of the tiny rocks just above the demon reads ‘Here [...]

‘No Cowbirds Allowed!’ by LM
Here we have the familiar Micky as gendarme putting a halt to any possible wrongdoing by a mammoth cowbird, who, in all likelyhood, will give back problems to the remarkably placid cow for years to come! Wacky, exuberently out of scale, bad!