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Art worth spitting on

From Mount Lehman Llamas in Mount Lehman, British Columbia. From their website:

Our llama barn has become an art gallery. The rules are that the paintings must be as bad as possible (or at least strange) show an interesting usage of colour or a complete misunderstanding of the concept of perspective, and they should not cost more than two dollars. They should be oil or acrylic as watercolour is too fragile for our gallery conditions. The ones on canvas board have to be varnished front and back to prevent them from warping from the dampness. Of course we don’t have any black velvet paintings. In our never-ending quest to find and display the best of the worst, we have visited a lot of garage sales and thrift shops.

The name of the barn is “Barn Toulouse” and when it became full of bad oil paintings, we had to start hanging paintings in the lower barn. Its name is the “Monet Pit”.

We have a different situation than most galleries as there are llamas wandering in and out all of the time. They are rather critical of some of the paintings, judging by the green spit on some of them. Another problem we have is that a few of our llamas love to chew on the paintings. Because of this and the wind, the paintings are fastened to the walls with screws through the frames. Also, because of security concerns we have posted guards in the gallery.

Here is one of their critters enjoying some nice fresh hay and some artwork.
Click for full-size Image Posted by DaveH at March 13, 2005 10:07 PM