| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/20/2006 5:05:02 PM | My walls are covered with my own art mixed with an assortment of art from various travels (masks and paintings).
Why? Hmmm...for one thing, my art has no where else to go ;), and the rest is there because I find it beautyful, and reminds me of all the wonderful places I've travelled to... | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/20/2006 9:14:06 PM | | Well it's not on my wall yet, but "The Picture Of Everything 2" by Howard Hallis. The reason it's not on the wall yet is because it's not finished. The reason it will be on my wall at all, is because I won an ebay auction to be drawn into it! It's a giant picture of, yep you guessed it, everything he could think of. He burned the original. He has a pretty interesting site about the whole things with zoomable pictures of the original, and his progress on the sequel. If anyone cares to check it out it's at www dot thepictureofeverything dot com | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/21/2006 9:21:43 AM | My walls are also covered with my own paintings, ranging from landscapes to fantasy, wallhangings and tapestries of celtic knotwork and big cats, and ceramic and metal hangings of new wave and druidic figures and symbols.
Why? I'm an artist, so I like to have my work out where it can be seen, I'm Irish, so I dig the knotwork and druids and other things from the Celts, and I like tigers, panthers , and other big cats.
The other things hanging on walls in my home are family pictures, especially of my daughter,
and my smallish "I love me" wall, where I have my diplomas, awards, etc. hanging (hiding back in my office.)
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/21/2006 9:23:26 PM | My walls are all filled with my own artworks - paintings and photographs, and charcoal life drawings.
Why? Cuz I don't have enough closet space...and I hate to see my work get squished.
I also have original works up by old friends: Leonard Baskin, Jeanette Cole, & Alan James Robinson. If you don't know these artists, then you should find them out! But my most treasured works of art are the ones done by my kids. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/22/2006 6:36:26 AM | I have a 60 inch long poster of Hokusai's The Great Wave.
Hokusai, excellent eye you have. Many of us forget that Japan invented a type of perspective we in Europe did not. Atmospheric persepctive as opposed to geometric.
Haida wood carvings are amazing, well represented as well in the Jim Jarmucsh and Robby Muller film "Dead Man" with exceptional B&W photography pushed in development to bring out the incredible grain of the natural weathered wood in the sculptures and painted wood. Greeks also painted their sculptures much as the Haida did.
Homeless are are the greatest artists, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, and Michelangelo were Homeless to. Nearly every great artist was Homeless, as was Chopin, etc., because it gives you a moral perspective on the world that the academies cannot afford.
Moral perspective being something you add to geometric and atmospheric forms of perspective. I have mostly my own paintings and drawings and storyboards on my walls. Large format photos of my sculptures on my walls. Drawings of actors performing.
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/22/2006 8:23:54 AM | FilmmakerMike wrote: Homeless are are the greatest artists, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, and Michelangelo were Homeless to. Nearly every great artist was Homeless, as was Chopin, etc., because it gives you a moral perspective on the world that the academies cannot afford.
Yes people not exactly in the mainstream do provide a different perspective. I am deaf, and my B&W photos seem to reflect the tone of riniging I have in my ears, and lend an eerie sound to them. My paintings are about music, or what deafness sounds like to me, visually. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/24/2006 9:20:19 PM | I am a bit ashamed that pretty much all the art I have is Marilyn Monroe, it looks like a sick obsession but I assure you all that it is not! I have been collecting Marilyn for years, its a hobby. On my walls I have 4 framed photographs, 3 antique tin signs, 1 canvas print, 2 mounted posters, 2 paper posters, 3 calanders, A painting I did myself of Miss Marilyn ZOMBIFIED  I also painted a large mural of her on my bedroom wall as well, it turned out fantastic and I still consider it a piece of art. I also have a foot high hot pink skeleton hanging on my wall as well, it is not as weird as it sounds, its actually pretty cute!
I wont even go into all the Marilyn knick knacks I have kicking around, THATS embarassing!  | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/26/2006 1:33:22 PM | In the city condo, I have oils... 5 are bluebonnets (TX flower) in the living room, various sizes; two are fairly high in value. In the bedroom are a pastel oil and one of my photographs, a pinky floral thing.
Many of my oils are very old on hardboard and I have one pastel chalk on hardboard of a Victorian woman, which I will no doubt move to the condo.
In the farm house are all the wonderful fun things... an old pic of a guy giving a salute with a wine glass (he looks Irish); some of my photographs of landscape & floral scenes; some of my boyfriends art (VERY comic stylistic). A hodpodge.
I detest prints. I own two transfer pieces... one is my own photography and one is of an oil by Salinas, a long gone artist in San Antonio whose originals were once sought after.
Over the kitchen cabinets in both places are hand painted wine glasses, with baskets and creative serving wear by Franc Como... all looking very Italian wine garden.
Here's a hint to those who display things on shelves, walls. Do so in sets of three. Three items with some kind of relationship (color, theme, same frame) look much better than centered even vignettes. Vary the heights, if on a shelf. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/26/2006 8:49:45 PM | This thread would be called the art on my floor in my case. I don't hang alot of my stuff but instead like to lean them against the walls and bannister. It looks good trust me :-P All of my pictures and paintings are of women or couples who portray either innocence, beauty, love and/or power.
I also have photographs of my family, friends and other loved ones around :-) | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/27/2006 12:44:04 AM | | I love landscapes.They make me feel like being there,all peaceful and stuff.I have one of a waterfall,the mountains,and I painted them myself too. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/27/2006 3:35:48 PM | hmmmm well the house is rather full of an assortment of stuff. the kitchen has mainly work related stuff...promo shots, posters, ads, photos, that sort of thing of the various projects and artisits i work with. it's also home to my fav tatiana print, the interior of a cafe, great colors and odd perpectives. it also houses my tin and bottle collections.
the dining room has an origianl trompe d'oile mural of a gargoyle, set in a stone wall/niche, and an original painting of my kids, both done by an artist friend.
the living room has a series of 5 pieces done in acrylic and chalk, representing a urban fantasy theme, many of which i post on my profile. 2 bl/white nude paintings, which will one day be a series of 5.....a large rendition of lilth, again done in chalk and acrylic, a carved stone gargoyle, a carved wooden wolfhead, (which reminds me of anubus), an southwestern feelin/looking sandstone carving of a moon face set in a niche....during the winter its also home to the rest of my gargoyle collection, which for the time being is out in the garden. it also has my childrens attempts at pottery, family photos, and numerous treasures i've collected in my travels.
there are 3 klimt reproductions, 2 moga reproductions, and a limited edition kandinsky print. other original art by my friends include a pencil seascape, a large abstract, and quite a few other odds and ends. i at some point want to turn the hallway going to the upstairs into a black/white photo gallery, and have been collecting both photo's and frames for it, but at this stage its still a concept thing. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 8/23/2006 8:47:04 AM | I think of the stuff on my walls and yes, it very much describes me and my outlook of the world.
hmm ok, lots of pictures of ravens....
print from Iqaluit, some sort of northern angel with two polar bears.
two ravens in flight, done by me
two smaller prints of ravens, by a BC artist
picture of Egyptian bas relief, very interesting
print of Starry Night by Van Gogh
original ink of walrus on an ice flow from an artist from Pangnirtung
25+ year old poster of Jimi in all his glory, my personal fave
original small ink of Sanikiluaq at night
large Indian warrior on a horse with hair flying (print)
small acrylic of a raven done especially for me by client in Yellowknife
Mostly all of this stuff is professionally framed in a minimalistic style.
Then I have the beaded stuff.........
hmmm thinking I may have overdone it a bit, but I love my pictures and other things.
Cheers, Raven | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/2/2006 6:38:36 PM | I have some Soviet propaganda posters from the 1930's and WW2. Very cool and very ANTI fashion. Chinese cigarette ads from same time as well. Elvis Presley and the Redskins soul band from England posters.  | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/3/2006 7:05:13 AM | My Dad was in a war against the Turks way back in the day when he was in Greece, maybe sometime u can see the pics, very cool as well. just4u the motto was when it's time 2 kill, him or you. Therefore unfortunately I made it here, just kiddin. somedays. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/3/2006 4:26:18 PM | The major stuff that I can see at the moment...
"Wrong Gun" by Gabe Lanza A late 50's cartoonish style work, with a cowboy protecting a damsel.
"Pele surfing with Kamohoali'i" and "Father Damien" by Dietrich Varez, a Hawaiian block print artist.
"Mystery Move" by Wiliiam (not Bill) Nealy. A well known kayaking cartoonist.
"Moon through the Trees" by Kathryn Darnell. A penciled illustration for a book, which I also have.
I tend to like artists that express something of whimsey. That probably explains most of the small sculptures throughout the room, as well. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/4/2006 1:58:41 AM | I only have Dali's Imrpessions of Africa.
I still don't know why I bought it. I imagine I liked the hidden images when I first saw it.
I've unfortunately never been that big on hanging up pictures where I live.
My roommate has movie posters galore. I'm guessing he likes those movies quite a bit.
Most people I know have something on their wall because they like how it looks. I don't think my friends, family and myself put too much thought into it. It takes a certain kind of person to truly love art enough to look deeply into each piece and try to find the emotion/meaning of the work. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/4/2006 7:26:09 AM | in my kitchen, i have a print of geronimo, a poster of johnny cash, a tapestry from ecuador (the cats love pulling it down), a single tree, a flower crown from solstice and a chart with raptor i.d.s. all these things make me smile when i see them.
in my bedroom, i have a valance over the bed (another cat toy), purple string lights and pictures of smarty jones.
i have some artwork that i don't really display because of the cat factor. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/4/2006 11:37:16 PM | | I don't normally buy art, but I was in a bookstore recently & saw this poster - it is set at night, in a clearing in some woods, with candles surrounding a stunning vampire girl who has obviously just fed because her beautiful old fashioned dress, & the grass around her is blood stained. She has tears & mascara streaming down her cheeks. I don't know why but I had to have it :) | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/5/2006 8:06:18 PM | I have a decal of a quote "We cannot direct the winds, but we can adjust our sails".
Also have a sand picture from Africa, given by a friend that used to live there.
And a quote from William Shakespeare. "if music be the food of love, play on"
A cheesy laminate plaque from a second-hand shop "if you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours". Words to live by, hung over my front door.
Scarlett | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/6/2006 7:47:54 AM | Art, like music and literature; validates our own existence. It gives us something to enjoy about each other and pass on to those who survive us. It gives us a purpose to live.
I have a portrait of my oldest son, another of my daughter, paintings by all of my kids, my wife, a Monet photo, a Yosemite photo, a Muir Woods photo, a drawing by my daughter of a pair of old tennis shoes... | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 11/6/2006 8:43:58 AM | I have various Hans-Werner Sahm prints hanging on the lower stairwell wall - bought after a series of emotional traumas - that just appeal to me on many levels.
I have several wallhangings (in hallways on each level), hand embroided by my mother - full of nature and vivid colours - that allow me a continuing connection with her.
I have a print of Franz Hals' "The Laughing Cavalier" - a connection to my father.
I have a black & white Ansel Adams print, 3 oil paintings by an old friend and a photograph of my son in the living room.
I have a 4x6 photograph of my each of my siblings, my son, and my niece and nephew - in the brightest coloured frames I could find - on the top of my computer armoire, where I can see them easily.
My fridge is dedicated to the art of children - my son, my niece, my nephew (allowing some space for my fridge magnet philosophies).
I have many others (too many to list). All the art in my home represents different facets of who I am, and how my life has evolved. Each of them keeps me emotionally alive, linked to a moment or place or time. | |
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