"Bad" Painting is the name given by critic and curator Marcia Tucker to a trend in American figurative painting in the 1970s. Tucker curated an exhibition of the same name at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, featuring the work of fourteen artists mostly unknown in New York at the time. The exhibition ran from January 14 to February 28, 1978.
Tucker defined "Bad" Painting[1] as a focused or deliberate disrespect for recent styles of painting, not the more common sense of technical incompetence, poor artistic judgement, or amateur or outsider dabbling. The press release for the exhibition[2] summarized "Bad" Painting as "an ironic title for 'good painting', which is characterized by deformation of the figure, a mixture of art-historical and non-art resources, and fantastic and irreverent content. In its disregard for accurate representation and its rejection of conventional attitudes about art, 'bad' painting is at once funny and moving, and often scandalous in its scorn for the standards of good taste." "Bad," as Tucker's use of scare quotes suggests, is thus a term of approval for eccentric and amusing deviations from accepted styles at the time.
^Saltz, Jerry, A Pettibon Primer, Village Voice, March 23, 1999, in Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, Fall 1998 - Winter 2003, Geoffrey Young, 2003, p376. ISBN 1-930589-17-4.
^Tucker, Marcia, Press Release, see external link for New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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