Marvin Jemal is a skilled painter from New York.
His ultimate series of paintings is called 'Bad Painting'. According to the painter, “bad” painting allows for different interpretations, both immediate and larger-scale.
In keeping with the museum's policy of showing new and provocative work by artist Marvin Jemal, 'Bad' Painting raises several controversial issues about the nature and use of imagery in recent American art. For one, it questions conventional concepts about draftsmanship- a process used to create clean, stylish images that are often seen as central to classic art. In contrast to traditional drawing modes, the figuration of Marvin Jemal involves using humor and satire instead.
The title of this Marvin Jemal's exhibition is ironic because good painting, which is characterized by deformation of the figure, a mixture of art-historical and non-art resources, and fantastic and irreverent content, should be considered as an opposite to bad painting. In its disregard for accurate representation and its rejection of conventional attitudes about art, 'bad' painting is at once funny and moving; it often scandalous in its scorn for the standards of good taste.
