Back in the 1970s, a group of artists expressed their doneness with conceptual art, minimalism, and the trends of current “good taste” by developing the type of work that openly questioned traditional styles and values with a determination of a raised middle finger. But it wasn’t until the art critic and auctioneer Marcia Tucker’s exhibition “Bad” Painting at the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York in 1978, that these eccentric and amusing deviations got recognized as a well-known artistic movement.
