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.
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.
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
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BerkshireMtnSculptor3. Happy Little Accident: Blender Collision Simulation Acted Weird, and I Got This Result by Accident
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4. Lord of the Rings / Eye of Sauron Hoodie Painted with Bleach by Me!
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5. Dance of the Dandelion, Salvador Dali, Oil on Canvas, 1944
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6. Möbius Ship
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7. "Experiment": Oil on Canvas, 40x60 cm
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8. Moonrise, Phyllis Shafer, Oil on Canvas, 2015
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9. My Over the Garden Wall Fanart, Ballpoint Pen
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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?
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11. Tattoo Design: Venetian Doctor
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12. Strawberry, Me, Ink and Digital Color, 2022
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13. Two of Swords, Digital Artwork by Anna Christenson, 2021
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14. Artist Unknown: Found This in a Box in the Basement
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This is similar to a roommate trying to split apartment decorating zones over clashing styles.
15. Sunset Sailing
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16. Bicycle Chain Sculpture, by Me
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17. Made from Recycled Skateboards by Disabled Skater (Me)
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18. Carved Avocado Pits Art, Me, 2019
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19. Power of Imagination, Me, Watercolor and Ink, 2017
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20. r/Art Rejected This, So I Thought Y’all Would Like It
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21. Artwork by Lizz Lopez
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22. OC
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23. I Like to Paint Over Thrift Store Artwork. Finally Got a Hold of a Norman Rockwell.
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24. “Fig” the Trash Frog
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25. Woman with Schizophrenia Drew What She Saw on Her Walls
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26. Western by Me Anoxical
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27. Last Light by Kim Dorland
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28. For a Minute There I Lost Myself by Gaia Alari
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29. When Death Fell in Love with Life, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, Sergey Zagarovski, 2021
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30. [OC] I Paint These Eerie Cats!
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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.