# New Cliche Paintings to Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104 "2006-05-17T14:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/1 "2006-05-17T14:52:37Z")
Reading the thread about Thomas Kincaide made me realize that we need new “bad” paintings to pile on. What variations on Bad art (or Good art that is grossly overexposed) could we have? Here’s a start: **Dogs Playing Video Poker Elvis on Black Velvet** (only it’s Elvis _Costello_) **Boulevard of Succesful Dreams** (instead of Elvis, Marilyn, etc. in the Helnwein parody of the Hopper painting, you have Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Jack Welch, etc. I know it’s a parody of a parody – I don’t care.) A parody of a **M.C. Escher** print in which the staircase only goes up, and doesn’t paradoxically lap itlsef at the bottom. Instead, the art-figure mannikin at the bottom walks into a wall. And the one at the top steps of and falls into space. **Madonna and Child** , only it’s — ahh, you can figure it out. Any others? … ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/2 "2006-05-17T15:10:02Z")
Anime showing women with enormous . . . . eyes. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/3 "2006-05-17T15:11:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Anime showing women with enormous . . . . eyes. I was under the impression that they all did. How about anime chjicks with big _Ears_? Or forearms a la Popeye? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/4 "2006-05-17T15:22:13Z")
Well, there’s always [Brandon Bird](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Bird), though his stuff qualifies more as ‘weird’ than ‘bad’. I think. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/5 "2006-05-17T15:39:46Z")
I never heard of Brandon Bird – those are Great! About as weird as Masami Taraoka’s offbeat Ukiyo-e-style prints. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/6 "2006-05-17T16:16:12Z")
[Nighthawks](http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_7_lg.shtml). I like Edward Hopper a lot - I have a copy of [The Long Leg](http://www.poster.de/Hopper-Edward/Hopper-Edward-The-Long-Leg-8300026.html) in my living room - but _Nighthawks_ is rapidly approaching clichehood. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/7 "2006-05-17T16:52:47Z")
**Alessan** – that’s why I suggested a parody of a parody of **Nighthawks** above – even BoBD is a cliche. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/8 "2006-05-17T20:04:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [Nighthawks](http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_7_lg.shtml). [Nighthogs.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0740750097/ref=dp_image_text_0/002-9856677-4522425?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155&s=books) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cliche-paintings-to-hate/357104/9 "2006-05-17T20:09:54Z")
How about The Scream, but with McCauley Culkin? On black velvet?