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Nut Job

Artists are tortured, brooding, and kind of pricky- everyone knows that. We've all heard about Vincent Van Gogh, the famed post- impressionist who cut off his ear and gave it to his girlfriend in order to impress her. What you may not know about Van Gogh, was that peculiar act of self-mutilation impressed his 

girlfriend so much that Van Gogh decided to use amputation as a pick-up line. He spent ten years mailing off various body parts until he was nothing more than a chin when he finally married in 1885.

Van Gogh was crazy, no doubt about it. Not Pat Robertson crazy, but pretty damn close. But did his dementia affect his work? Art historians think so. They point to his latter paintings, most notably, the notorious, yet obscure work Stank-Ass Dusk the disappointing sequel to his masterpiece Starry Night. Critics slammed the piece saying it lacked the spirit of his earlier work and derided Van Gogh for using his left ass cheek as the painting’s canvas.

But Van Gogh wasn’t the only painter to have what art historians like to call a “crazy” period. Several other notable artists have also suffered through this debilitating stage, usually later in life. The results are apparent in their work. Here are some examples...

Pablo Picasso’s Man Washing His Hands 30 Times a Day

What the hell is this?

This work, which many feel is a self-portrait of Picasso during his "crazy" period, shows the famed painter doing what he loved most; surrendering to his obsessive psychotic compulsions. The painting, however, was never officially titled by Picasso, leaving many art scholars debating whether the cubist portrait was indeed that of a man obsessively washing his hands or in fact, a platypus masturbating with a cello.

Andy Warhol’s Used Tampon Boxes
The venerated pop artist who made his mark creating art of Campbell’s soup cans seemed to lose creative steam toward the end of his life. By 1983 a few years before his death, Warhol’s partying lifestyle and addiction to freebasing Rubik’s cubes sunk him into his own crazy period. The artist spent his last months creating such nonsensical pieces as Used Tampon Boxes featuring reproductions of Tampax packages that contained no tampons, only Cap’n Crunch cereal and Garbage Pail Kid trading cards. And his pop portraits of 1980s “D- List” celebs like Conrad Bain and Pac Man Jr. seemed to confirm the criticisms that Warhol was out of touch with the celebrity scene.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna with Small Penis
This inexplicable work combined da Vinci’s two favorite subjects, the Mother of God and men with shriveled genitalia. While it is common knowledge that Da Vinci loved to paint transvestites, be it cross-dressing lesbos (Mary Magdalene in The Last Supper) or drag queens (The Mona Lisa), by 1510 da Vinci mentally deteriorated and became infatuated by petitely endowed she-males. The Church condemned Madonna With Small Penis and the Renaissance soon ended, immediately triggering the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the start of World War I.

Salvador Dali’s Trapper Keeper Series
In 1979, as the famed surrealist approached his seventy-fifth birthday, he was approached by Lawton Mead III, CEO of Mead Paper Inc. with a revolutionary idea. Mead was about to embark on an ambitious enhancement of the loose-leaf binder and needed an artist to design some cover art. After being turned down by several respected artists from Willem de Kooning to the guy who illustrated Hagar the Horrible, Mead found an eager, albeit drooling, Dali. The Dali series of Trapper Keeper art were immediately deemed insipid and tacky by art critics who criticized the painter for his overuse of unicorns and rainbows.

Jackson Pollock’s Porcelain God (aka The Crapper)
By 1955, just months before his death, the celebrated abstract expressionist was sinking into a dark, self-induced alcoholic chasm. A pissed-drunk Pollock would go around to bars boasting that he could make anything look like a Pollock if he ate enough Mexican food. One of these pieces is still displayed in the restroom of Flanagan’s Pub, which is located across the street from New York’s Whitney Museum. The exhibit will be available to the general public until March 2006 or whenever they can find a janitor brave enough to clean up Pollock’s masterpiece.