Online Group Shares 30 Odd and Unusual Works of Art, and They Are Totally Weird

Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder.

A 28-year-old woman refused to keep her art “normal,” and an online group decided to crown that chaos by sharing 30 odd, unhinged, and weirdly beautiful works. From “Sis, Get Out the Way I Wanna See the Rainbow” to a “Möbius Ship,” it’s the kind of feed that makes you zoom in, then laugh, then stare again like your eyes are trying to decode the joke.

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But the complicated part is the vibe clash. Some pieces are playful, like the blender collision simulation that “acted weird” and delivered a result by accident, while others feel like they crawled out of a dream, like “Woman with Schizophrenia Drew What She Saw on Her Walls” and “When Death Fell in Love with Life.” Add in the DIY energy, the found-box mystery art, the bleach-painted Lord of the Rings hoodie, and the “r/Art Rejected This” post, and you’ve got a whole community arguing with itself about what counts as art and what’s just too strange to describe.

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Scroll far enough and you’ll see why the early 20th century backlash still echoes here.

1. Sis, Get Out the Way I Wanna See the Rainbow, by Marie Ève Richard, Oils 2022

1. Sis, Get Out the Way I Wanna See the Rainbow, by Marie Ève Richard, Oils 2022marieeverichard
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2. Tower of Souls, Scott Dow of Corry, PA

2. Tower of Souls, Scott Dow of Corry, PABerkshireMtnSculptor
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3. Happy Little Accident: Blender Collision Simulation Acted Weird, and I Got This Result by Accident

3. Happy Little Accident: Blender Collision Simulation Acted Weird, and I Got This Result by Accidentzebvisionx

4. Lord of the Rings / Eye of Sauron Hoodie Painted with Bleach by Me!

4. Lord of the Rings / Eye of Sauron Hoodie Painted with Bleach by Me!GRiME_G59

5. Dance of the Dandelion, Salvador Dali, Oil on Canvas, 1944

5. Dance of the Dandelion, Salvador Dali, Oil on Canvas, 1944AspiringOccultist4

6. Möbius Ship

6. Möbius Shipreddit.com

7. "Experiment": Oil on Canvas, 40x60 cm

7. "Experiment": Oil on Canvas, 40x60 cmosapavlova

8. Moonrise, Phyllis Shafer, Oil on Canvas, 2015

8. Moonrise, Phyllis Shafer, Oil on Canvas, 2015AspiringOccultist4

9. My Over the Garden Wall Fanart, Ballpoint Pen

9. My Over the Garden Wall Fanart, Ballpoint PenArtofDecay

10. I May Have Ruined Christmas Lunch by Saying That I See a Dinosaur in My Brother-in-Law's Expensive Painting. Now It's All That Anyone Can See. Do You See It Too?

10. I May Have Ruined Christmas Lunch by Saying That I See a Dinosaur in My Brother-in-Law's Expensive Painting. Now It's All That Anyone Can See. Do You See It Too?MonkeyMan504

11. Tattoo Design: Venetian Doctor

11. Tattoo Design: Venetian DoctorNo_Nectarine_3687

12. Strawberry, Me, Ink and Digital Color, 2022

12. Strawberry, Me, Ink and Digital Color, 202200Bolzak00

13. Two of Swords, Digital Artwork by Anna Christenson, 2021

13. Two of Swords, Digital Artwork by Anna Christenson, 2021AspiringOccultist4

14. Artist Unknown: Found This in a Box in the Basement

14. Artist Unknown: Found This in a Box in the BasementSamW20910

This is similar to a roommate trying to split apartment decorating zones over clashing styles.

15. Sunset Sailing

15. Sunset Sailingstarwaterbird

16. Bicycle Chain Sculpture, by Me

16. Bicycle Chain Sculpture, by MePink_Sock_Bandit

17. Made from Recycled Skateboards by Disabled Skater (Me)

17. Made from Recycled Skateboards by Disabled Skater (Me)mobiusmaples

18. Carved Avocado Pits Art, Me, 2019

18. Carved Avocado Pits Art, Me, 2019monday_maybe

19. Power of Imagination, Me, Watercolor and Ink, 2017

19. Power of Imagination, Me, Watercolor and Ink, 2017Franco_R

20. r/Art Rejected This, So I Thought Y’all Would Like It

20. r/Art Rejected This, So I Thought Y’all Would Like ItOPG_GOD

21. Artwork by Lizz Lopez

21. Artwork by Lizz LopezAspiringOccultist4

22. OC

Lizz Lopez artwork featuring a strange, quirky figure, shared in r/Art Rejected.00Bolzak00

23. I Like to Paint Over Thrift Store Artwork. Finally Got a Hold of a Norman Rockwell.

23. I Like to Paint Over Thrift Store Artwork. Finally Got a Hold of a Norman Rockwell.murdrfaze

24. “Fig” the Trash Frog

24. “Fig” the Trash FrogSugarfox_art

25. Woman with Schizophrenia Drew What She Saw on Her Walls

25. Woman with Schizophrenia Drew What She Saw on Her WallsQuantumAna

26. Western by Me Anoxical

26. Western by Me Anoxicalhecticpillow

27. Last Light by Kim Dorland

27. Last Light by Kim DorlandMinneyGucci

28. For a Minute There I Lost Myself by Gaia Alari

28. For a Minute There I Lost Myself by Gaia Alariceally

29. When Death Fell in Love with Life, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, Sergey Zagarovski, 2021

29. When Death Fell in Love with Life, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, Sergey Zagarovski, 2021AspiringOccultist4

30. [OC] I Paint These Eerie Cats!

30. [OC] I Paint These Eerie Cats!Ashbreeze

The rainbow painting, the blender collision “accident,” and the “Fig” the Trash Frog all show up like warning labels for anyone expecting neat, polite masterpieces.

Then the list swings from Salvador Dalí’s “Dance of the Dandelion” to bleach-stained fantasy merch, and suddenly the group’s “weird” is loud, not quiet.

By the time you reach “Western by Me Anoxical” and the graphite-and-colored-pencil “When Death Fell in Love with Life,” you can feel why people once recoiled at anything hard to describe.

When painters began experimenting with more "strange" styles and images in the early 20th century, several social groups reacted negatively. People encountered abstract and occasionally frightening images that were extremely difficult to describe, whereas they had previously only seen realistic depictions of humans, animals, and other subjects.

Nobody agrees on what’s “too strange,” and that’s exactly why these artworks keep winning.

For more chaos with art and blame, read about a friend’s parrot destroying a prized painting and the vet-cost fight.

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