Are These the Worst Paintings in the UK?

In reaction to the poll for the UK's favourite painting, The Guardian Online got "10 experts to select the pictures they loath". These range from the managing director of the Institute of Contemporary Art and the director general of the National Galleries of Scotland to a caricaturist working in Leicester Square in London. The reasons why a painting was chosen range from "mawkish Victorian sentimentality at its worst" (with "especially nauseating" butterflies) to "screamingly awful art". Unrestrained opinion indeed! Read more...