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Velvet Underdogs: In Praise of the Paintings the Art World Loves to Hate
Without a doubt, black-velvet painting lives up to its reputation as the pinnacle of tackiness. You could point to any number of cheap, poorly done images of Elvis, scary clowns, matadors, “Playboy” nudes, and strange unicorns sold to American tourists by Mexican painters starting in the ’50s. But when velvet collectors Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin look at these pieces, they see something else.
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Dogs playing poker was a good one.
Some were tacky,but also just fun. Art should be fun. And yeah,I like the dogs playing poker one as well.