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Sometimes, accidents happen. However, there are times where a coincidence is just enough to create some paint splatter or sculpture or other art form by accident. People see it, and even it it's not even meant to be art, they'll still think it's brilliant.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* A stock cliché in [[Disney Mouse and Duck Comics]]. Mickey is trying to paint a picture, it gets ruined, but wins an award as such. Goofy wins a poem contest with a grocery list that coincidentally rhymes. Donald has mutilated Gladstone's fashion designs, but he decides to trust his luck and have them displayed anyway, and an expert declares that they're brilliant. And so on.
* In an one-page story in ''[[The Smurfs]]'', Painter Smurf's canvas is taken away by the wind and it hits the ground several times, getting all kind of stains. Papa Smurf arrives and thinks his painting is brilliant, asking him how he did it. Painter Smurf replies it was "a little inspiration, a lot of perspiration".▼
== [[Film]] ==
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* This is the subject of the satirical essay film ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I064sA-5xFU The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal]''
* In ''[[Tapeheads]]'', the main characters run an unsuccessful music video company. When a [[Death Metal]] band that they taped [[Death From Above|is crushed by a piece of falling satellite]], they're asked for a copy of the unpremiered video. Being low on funds, they put it on a video that previously held a videotaped funeral, accidentally copying only the audio. Fortunately, the song just happened to fit the funeral visuals very well, and it is lauded as a masterful work of art, even winning an award.
▲* In an one-page story in ''[[The Smurfs]]'', Painter Smurf's canvas is taken away by the wind and it hits the ground several times, getting all kind of stains. Papa Smurf arrives and thinks his painting is brilliant, asking him how he did it. Painter Smurf replies it was "a little inspiration, a lot of perspiration".
== [[Literature]] ==
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* "The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes" by [[Ray Bradbury]]: A B-Movie is transformed into an acclaimed work of art when the projectionist gets drunk and shows the reels in the wrong order (and some of them upside-down and/or backwards).
* In ''[[Fudge|Fudge-A-Mania]]'' by [[Judy Blume]], baby Tootsie accidentally walks through spilled paint and makes little footprints across one of Jimmy's father's canvases. He decides to make a series of "Baby Feet" paintings with her as a result. It's even referenced in ''Double Fudge,'' where Peter's family gets invited to a showing of Mr. Fargo's work, including the now wildly popular Baby Feet paintings.
* A ''[[Discworld]]'' novel mentioned a piece of modern art consisting of a pile of rags, called "Don't ask me about Mondays". This art was intentional, but when [[Magnificent Bastard|Lord Vetinari]] viewed it, he displayed his opinions on modern art by having the artist nailed to a post by her ear. This installation was an even bigger hit, and she's planning on having herself nailed to several other things.
* In one of the ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories, a pal of Bertie's is having trouble. He want's to paint portraits, but can't get a commission to paint one because he hasn't painted any. He finally gets a commission to paint a portrait of his uncle and benefactor's first baby. It's so horrible that the uncle calls it a fugitive from the funny papers, and cuts the painter off. Jeeves gets the idea that the character in the portrait could be the root of a series on the funny papers entitled, "The Adventures of Baby Blobb". It's a hit and the painter becomes rich.
* In ''[[Schismatrix]]'', an entire artificial asteroid with a long stream of extruded plastic and stone head stuck to it (long story) is considered a piece of art by the alien Investors. They even compliment the use of explosions to produce a nice shading technique.
* In one of the novels of the ''[[Chanur Saga]]'' the main characters must carry an important ''stsho'' dignitary on their starship as a passenger. Knowing that the stsho love the color white they get their hands on whatever white furniture and decorations they can and hastily shove them into the stsho's room. It turns out that stsho art consists of abstract designs in infinite shades of white, and they'd created for their passenger a masterpiece of stsho interior design.
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* In ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'', this occurred when Cookie strung some cans together in order to keep them from getting taken. It happened in a different way the second time. Ned paints an orange naked lady by mistake, and is so successful that he almost pays off the school's debt.
* Inverted in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. Rimmer mistakes a light-switch for an artistic masterpiece.
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* On ''[[Bosom Buddies (TV series)|Bosom Buddies]]'', Kip complains that Henry doesn't understand his art, and makes his point by asking Henry's opinion on a piece of abstract art. When Henry claims to like it, Kip points out that it was actually the board he used to wipe his brushes. However as the conversation continues, Kip begins to notice that it really does look kind of nice. Eventually, it shows up in his exhibit alongside his other works.
* In one episode of ''[[Bones]]'', a murdered artist's body is dumped into a crusher full of scrap metal by his killer, and compacted into a large block. The team's efforts to investigate the crime are initially held up, because the artist's colleagues claim he must've chosen to commit suicide-by-crusher and become a part of his own artwork: take apart the block, and Brennen's team would supposedly be destroying his final masterpiece.
* In the ''[[Dark Angel]]'' Season 2 episode "Medium is the Message", Joshua created an accidental painting with a tube of paint labelled 'chocolate mousse' which he mistook for candy and put in his mouth. After spitting the paint onto a nearby painting, he tried to wipe it off with some paper and created an even bigger mess, sticking the paper to the painting. He later sneezed into an ashtray and the ashes got stuck in the wet paint, etc. Alec later saw the antique frame and expressed appreciation for it, and Joshua, thinking he liked the painting, gave it to him. Alec tried to sell the frame, but the art dealer hated the old frame and LOVED the inspired and original artwork, offering him big money for it. Alec then convinced Joshua to make more paintings, but she didn't like the later ones.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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'''Homer:''' Wow... in high school I was voted most likely to ''be'' a hillbilly, mental patient or chimpanzee! }}
** An affectedly enthusiastic art teacher sees a janitor painting a handrail and exclaims: "Another triumph!"
** Another episode mixes this with [[Eureka Moment]]. A cartoon version of [[Real Life]] architect Frank Gehry casually crumples up a letter and throws it onto the ground, gives it a look, and says to himself “[http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/simpsons-gehry.jpg Frank, you genius! You did it again!]” He then scales up this "design" and makes it a concert hall. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160402195434/http://blog.miragestudio7.com/frank-gehry-and-the-simpsons/113/
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Squidward goes on a rampage, destroying his art studio. It turns out that in this rampage he created a replica of Michelangelo's ''David'', the same statue Spongebob had created earlier in the episode.
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'': Brain's plan is to become a famous artist (which he intends to do by predicting the next artistic fad: [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|Donutism]]), this fails but Pinky attempts to drink the contents of Brain's brush jar (a milk carton) and promptly spits it out onto a canvas. Cue this trope.
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