The Worst Artist in America Has Died
 

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LeRoy Neiman, the astonishingly successful artist behind visual atrocities like these...

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...has died. He was 91. I'm sad for his family and happy for him that he was able to live such a full life (and have such a full mustache), but reading his obituary has made me aware that all of the worst sports-related (and sometimes music-related) artwork I have seen hanging in people's offices was the product of one man, as opposed to some awful art factory as I might have assumed before today. Maybe somewhere out in the ether today he and Thomas Kinkade are raising a glass to terrible artwork together.

****sake Jans, I thought beiber was dead and almost peed my pants.

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Don't you dare blame Beiber on us. Blame Canada.

Oh my god that Shaq painting is awful.

Oh, and RIP.

Leroy's paintings are pretty garish but they are reminiscent of a certain time and place. He did some huge paintings of casino and race track type scenes that were super detailed and kind of cool, but I do agree that, like Kincaid, he will probably go down in history more as a commercial illustrator than a capital-A artist.

That Shaq painting is so bad it looks more like Charles Barkley than Shaq.

Hey let's not diss the the commercial illustrators of the world. :laughing:

Hey now, Canada is a big place. Can't blame all of us! Blame Stratford. :laughing:

It looks like Glen Davis, if anything. Oh wait he's scoring in the painting, nvm.

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Did he paint with these brushes?