I Got The Mime in Me

I Got The Mime in Me

A. Fishman, signed artist
Freshman Art -Section 7-6 (Acrylic on Canvas 16"X20")
ca. 1979
Clownism, Mimeism

Speaking the universal language of teen alienation, this work explores the duality of the personea. It asks "are we 'young adults' as the library reading selections tell us we are, or old mustached men in these formative years?"


Yet Fishman's work also speaks volumes to each who see it and experience its cathartic questioning: Are our performances in the "theatre of human pathos" that of mere mortals performing stationary tasks as mute players in a grander scheme? Or are we all - behind closed doors and free of the invisible boxes that constrict our daily lives - pariahs yearning to communicate what we are otherwise inarticulate to say?

 
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Christee, The Clown

Christee, The Clown

Attributed to M. Cook

Acrylic on stretch canvas

ca. 1975

Clownism, Religious Art

Christee's message is not that the circus is a place for fun, or for terror, but that He Lives, and explained in Christee's eyes which proselytize the good word.  Also hidden on Christee's face are any number of other messages ("Church is good" "Eat Your Vegetables"), etcetera and so on.  Christee joins the pantheon of religious art (the Sisteine Chapel, and other works) to tell the story of faith to the faithless and to reaffirm the smug and the saved.

However the real controversy behind Christee is the change that artist M. Cook's signature on this work has been forged by a possuer.  As such, and until the artist identifies his/herself, the work will be considered one bathed as much in controversy as it is in the light of Gee-sus.

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Pennywise, But Pound Foolish

Pennywise, But Pound Foolish

L Kenny, Artist (Oil on Stretched Canvas 15"X11") ca. 1965

And what child wouldn't want to wake up to this each day, with its sunny background and vivid use of the color wheel?

But so soon enough, Junior (or Princess) will know the horror that begins as innocently as a day at the circus, only to have the myth of the circus clown, King of the Happy-go-Lucky Buffoons evolve into a dark and menacing specter intent on retribution. The most compelling feature is Kenny's use of a jack-o-lantern mouth which helps to project the angst of the moment.

After all, everyone loves clowns, RIGHT?

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Le Clown, Marcel

Le Clown, Marcel
Unknown, ca. 1970

Acrylic on Stretch Canvas

Abtsract Hitchcock-Clownism

With Marcel we see the clown as the French would say, who is la needie.  Not le clown as Jerry Lewis would be le clown.  For that would be Le Clown Jerry Lewis, and this is Le Clown, Marcel.  But Marcel is a needful thing and he must be saved by you, or we all will die a death of deaths.  Plaintiff in his desire, Marcel does not beg for you attenion, he commands it, against a background that makes this work as dizzying, yet improbable.  Yet here you are, and here is Marcel. Life is a funny thing, no?  We say "yes, quite."

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Clowns of Giverny

Clowns of Giverny


Artist: Monnet

Date: Undocumented

Oil on Canvas (16"X24")

Style: Big Top Attributionsm, Clownism

Faces of everyone's favorite, the clown.  These two, like the classic forms of tragedy and comedy, convey the two types of clowning - that of the happy-go-lucky performer on the left and that of the person who uses his make as a mask so that the world will never see him crying, on the right.  Laugh clown. Indeed; laugh.

Speculation places this work after the exhaustion of Claude Monet's water lily fad expressed in the master's more renown works, and well beyond the noted artists death. The brush strokes are unlike any documented within the catalog of his works. Stylistically, the facial make-up of the subjects displaces them from the artists continent of livelihood. Still, the signature -- sporting its superfluous "N"-- is nothing more then a thinly veiled attempt to mask the true identity of the artist by a thinly veiled direct association, leading BAMOO's staff art historians to attribute this to some other artist's famed starvation period.

While it is not the practice of the Bad Art Museum of Ohio to accept such a work unless there is documented proof that its starving artist actually starved in a garret while painting the work in question, BAMOO did accept this piece because of its symbolism of an artist struggling to overcome the demons at work on creative self.



Joined BAMOO Collection 8-2000


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