After diving deep into his Renaissance to Modern Art class, sophomore James McDugger did the unimaginable. While amped up on inspiration, Mountain Dew Code Red and a heart full of edginess, he opened up his American history textbook. What happened next could only be described as a stroke of sheer genius as he drew a promiscuous patch of fuzz on a picture of Lady Liberty’s face, perching it right above her upper lip.

“Well you know man, like art is just so dead and I’m like just doing my best to resurrect it from the depths of medi-medioc-…badness, ya know,” said McDugger in a recent interview. “They say there’s no more American heroes, well, I dunno if they’ll be saying that now.”

Never in the history of man has anyone raised the bar so high for aspiring artists. International art critics have been stunned by the rapid rise of the man described as “Art’s Baddest Bad Boy”. McDuggar’s meteoric rise has fueled a search to track down his Renaissance to Modern Art professor, a professor who The DailyER could only assume was equally as dumbfounded as the rest of us by the quality of his star pupil.

“This motherfucker, I swear to God,” McDugger’s professor sighed, who prefered to remain unnamed out of utter embarrassment. “He just picked up his textbook, saw what Marcel Duchamp did to a postcard of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ got a case of the giggles and just started drawing fucking mustaches on everything!”

While his work is clearly divisive, McDugger insists that some artists are never understood in their own lifetime. When asked about his plans for the future, McDugger told The DailyER that he plans to keep pushing the boundaries.
“I’m going to keep pushing the boundaries,” said McDugger. “You don’t have to like me, but you have to like my art.”