The Week contest: Fired art

This week's question: A German museum fired an employee who secretly hung his own painting alongside works by Picasso and Dali in hopes of achieving an "artistic breakthrough." If the ex-worker were to paint a new work based on his foiled bid for greatness, what would it be titled?

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RESULTS:

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THE WINNER: “Unhung Hero”

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana

SECOND PLACE: “The Scream (for Attention)”

Peter Hasby, Rapid City, South Dakota 

THIRD PLACE: “Guernican’t”

Ellen Skagerberg, Santa Rosa, California 

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

“Self Portrait with Bandaged Ego”

Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida

“I Was Framed”

Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia

“A Public Unhanging”

Amanda Sargent, Erie, Colorado

“Ceci N’est Pas Une Great Work”

Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Virginia

“Rogue’s Gallery”

Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut

“Chiseler’s Mother”

Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas

“The Pride Stripped Bare”

Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia

“Total Eclipse of My Art”

Don Weinberg, Bonita Springs, Florida

“The Kiss (-off)”

Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Stung Man”

Trish Studer, Massillon, Ohio

“The Last Supper (I Can Afford)”

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts

“The Persistence of Vanity”

Jim Foley, Wooster, Ohio