| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/10/2007 3:03:05 PM |
you experience it like music for the eyes
I agree, and in fact that's what my paintings are about: Sound, and hearing art visually.
On my walls are my paintings, in part because I like them, and also for lack of storage space. Also, my great grandmother's sketches, photographs I did as an art student, and most precious of all- my little kids artworks. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/10/2007 3:54:27 PM | I collect watercolor art from street vendors in some of the cities that I traveled to. Also have one oil and one acrylic, but usually stick to watercolor. Currently have:
Aspen
New York City (two or three)
San Francisco
Venice
Florence
Paris (two or three)
Prague (although I didn't visit, was a gift from someone who did)
New Orleans | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/12/2007 10:47:03 AM | My tastes are all over the place.
1. A couple of Iron Maiden prints from back when album artwork was really artwork, not that crap they put on CD's now.
2. Laughing Christ - Ralph Kozak
3. Starry Night and Self Portrait - Van Gogh
4. Sunday Afternoon - George Seurat
5. Paysannes bretonnes - Paul Gauguin
6. 10 Marilyns - ANdy Warhol
7. Moonlit Palms - Dan Macklin | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/12/2007 11:57:13 PM |
My own work...coz Im cheap!
Or you're an artist and there's nothing wrong with that. ;)
I have two of my own paintings up... the only two I have since I tend to give them away.
My bedroom is all movie posters... Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet, Mulan and Tarzan... and I probably have another half dozen movie posters stored away that I've cycled out of rotation over the years. It's not really about the movies at all--I didn't even particularly like the Leo & Claire edition of Romeo & Juliet, but it's one of my favourite posters--the Montagues and Capulets lined down each side pointing guns out each other with the kissing couple in between... "My only love is my only hate"... just a great image in its own right... same deal for the Disney posters--although, being an ex-animation student, their presence is not really surprising either.
I have a signed Chuck Jones animation cel... unfortunately from a little known film of his, but still a nice Xmas gift from a couple years back.
Two framed pieces of papyrus with ancient Egyptian art on them--done in the days before the designs became really, REALLY tacky-looking...
And two art prints by Octavio Ocampo--"Forever Always" and "Visions of Quixote"... Ocampo specializes in dual image tricks, so you look at "Forever Always" from the living room in my apartment you'll clearly see the heads of two old people... you look at it up close in the dining room and it's the seated figures of two young people. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/14/2007 12:45:11 PM | The only prints and pictures I have are greyhound related. One is a colored chalk drawing of my first three greyhounds. MY ex gave it to me for a wedding present. I have another pencil drawing of a greyhound that was commissioned to an artist in Philadelphia by one of my friends and his wife. I have another print that was given to me of two greyhounds by the adoption group I work with. Then I have vintage postcards that have been made into a collage, matted and framed. And then I have 3 black and white photos that came from an old greyhound breeders estate. They were taken in the 1940's and have been framed.
I also have the racing blanket and muzzle that my dog King wore when he won the Guys and Dolls Sprint Derby. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/17/2007 11:52:30 AM | I agree about hanging the window glass on a plain wall or another ideas would be to take some really old photos of family members and have them blown up to fit the panes and place them behind the panes. Did you know that the glass in that frame is probably wavey because it is hand blown glass. Another way to tell if it is hand blown is to look for bubbles in the glass. Good luck with the wall treatment.
About the art in my house I have mostly watercolors that I did myself. I start the painting with something that I find from nature and then it just seems to evolves into some kind of a surrealistic portrait. I use twigs, leaves, seashells, etc. for inspiration.
Other interesting pieces that I have were done by friends who are artists. My friends seem to always give me very abstract angel paintings and I love them. They are my most loved pieces of art. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/17/2007 9:38:03 PM | I have an Anne Geddes, a bunch of Robert Bateman, some photos, and the pictures the kids I work with did for me! | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/18/2007 6:28:17 AM | I am not sure if I should admit this....but going to anyway....
I am sitting in my office and have three things hanging on the walls----my last 10 point buck rack mounted, a print of 'The Wild Bunch' (my third cousin was Sundance-REALLY!), and an Indian Watercolor........hmmmm....obviously a Texas girl!
The rest of my home-----all flowers--mostly antique prints--very victorian---go figure. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/18/2007 8:37:03 AM | prompted by this thread, which i think is quite interesting, i just went and counted how many pieces of artwork, photographs, and prints i have on the walls here. the total comes to 205 approximately. i knew there was a lot, but never realized quite how many. and it is only a moderate sized apartment!
i would guess that at least 70 are photographs that i have taken. (i muck around with photography, selling odd pieces as prints or greeting cards.) the other pieces of artwork here are from various genres and artists...water colours, pencil sketches, charcoal, oil paints, plaster work, and numerous prints. apart from the original works, i would say that the mucha prints are my favourites. i love black and white sketches, and well done artwork of women. i enjoy oils as well because of the texture and depth the medium gives to the work.
my apartment looks like a rainbow. no wonder people walk in and sometimes just stand staring forgetting to close the door behind them! hahahaha :) my apartment has been described as "eye candy" by more than one person.
i have thoroughly enjoyed reading about what other people have on their walls. thank you for sharing!!
:)
lou | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/18/2007 7:25:42 PM | This is a great thread. I hadn't thought about the variety of things I have used to decorate my home. I have several shelves/shadow boxes filled with things from my youth or from when my children were little. They also contain gifts from several exchange students I've hosted.
I have wire baskets with grapes, leaves and ribbon on the walls in the kitchen. I have angels and butterflies on the walls of my livingroom. As well as a print of "Footprints" and a picture of a little boy kissing a little girl. My bedroom walls are covered with pictures of my parents, grandparents, sisters, children and grandchildren. I also have straw hats decorating one wall. In the bathroom there is a patchwork bunny I painted that says "I like you just the way you are". It reminds me no matter how you look in the mirror, it's what's in your heart that counts. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/19/2007 3:36:40 PM | I've got 13 Salvador Dali Poster/prints. Big fan of Dali surrealism. Makes my brain hurt sometimes.
2 beautiful works of art I bought off a a friend of mine, one of the most creativly gifted and energetic people I know.
2 Prints given to me by an older friend mine who has been actively creating art for years. He's a great inspiration. Simple yet bold.
1 Callage (I know I spelt it wrong) of many collages. I saw a book at the local art center of many great collages and decided to cut it up and make it into one massive one. Took me many hours of work to put it together into a signifigant order. Compliments of Barry Kite.
Sweet Thread. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 2/21/2007 7:05:35 PM | | I have a bunch of Dali prints and pictures I've taken. And some framed albums and show posters. Why? Why not? | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 3/7/2007 3:14:14 AM | | I have a bunch of Chinese scroll paintings hanging on my wall that I got when I lived in China for a year, because I dig asian art. I also have an abstract asian style painting my dad got when he was serving in Vietnam. I have a framed 40 million year old fossil fish from the Green river area of Wyoming, because I am a geologist: a poster from the Seattle air and space museum of a bunch of antique planes, I am a pilot also: a poster of Mt. Rainier in front of my desk because I grew up with a view of that mountain from our house, and I later climbed it. And last but not least, a bunch of my own oil paintings and a watercolor because I am a painter too. However, I don't have any of my framed photographs hanging around, even though I am a also a photographer and sell them to others. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 4/24/2007 8:41:39 PM | | Let's see...I love the impressionist era, be it in art or music. I don't know that I can really pin-point why...it just speaks to me. Artistically, I'm particularly fond of Renior and have three prints framed in my house. My seventh grade art teacher assigned Renior to me as a report topic and I fell in love with his work. I also have a piece of framed Christian art that I find quite beautiful and expresses the importance of my faith in my life, a black and white framed photograph that was a gift from my parents, and a couple other minor pieces that I lack the words to verbalize in a successful manner. A nude female Renior sketch is my favorite. Burgandy/copper color sketching on ivory with a gold frame...love it. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 4/26/2007 8:21:36 AM | | all I have is a few posters here and there and 3 or 4 paintings that my grandmother painted. I love her work and I even took a pic and posted it in my profile. she was also a writter wrote 5 books and some short stories, and was woman of the year a few years before she past away. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 4/27/2007 11:56:12 AM | Let's see - I have two silk paintings from India, a slate carving from Ireland, a peat carved cross from Ireland, a rather strange string instrument from Ghana, a Moroccan canteen, a few handmade tapestries from Burma, a collection of 4 musical prints from China, and a few of my favorite photographs (my own photography).
As for the why, well that's simple - they are beautiful and make me happy! | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/17/2007 5:37:57 PM | I made a pact with myself in my 20's to only have original art work in my home. I've tried to live by that. Took me 6 months to pay Robert Baur for the charcoal "Is the American Family Unit Worth Preserving?" but it haunted me for 4 or 5 years. I have numerous paintings by my disceased husband who was a regional watercolorist. I had to collect many of those after his death because he usually sold them right away. I have one of my paintings up and one that I modeled for. I have a collection of family photos surrounding clock hands. Characature(sp?) of my family on one wall. I have grand kid art on the fridge. Pastel by my best friend who is also an artist/teacher. Bunches in a huge portfolio that I haven't gotten framed. Need to develop a rotating "exhibit" I guess. Gave a beautiful Italian mezzotint to my OB/Gyn...seemed appropriate. Self-satisfied hen on a nest. I loved it but thought women who came to him would appreciate it. I collect good pottery because I appreciate it but don't make it. I've traded for some of it. Oh, yeah, coolest nativity that's out all year. Bought 2 to 3 pieces at a time every year as a gift for my husband. It's all penguins, polar bears, fish, etc. We just thought it was totally funky.
I've been given posters, prints, commercial home decorating stuff. Leave it out so the giver sees it, then fade it from sight when I think it won't be missed. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/18/2007 4:57:48 AM | Over my couch is a large print of "Daybreak" By Maxfield Parrish. (1922) It's so beautiful, I love the shading and the colours. I discovered him through his many book illistrations. Editions of Poe, Carrol, Mallory, and many others. Parrish was an American master, whose work seems to be forgotten. One of the girls who worked at the art store where I bought the print had never heard of him, or seen the image. It's a very famous image, Google it- I'll bet you've seen it before. She had an art degree too! What a shame.
I also have several group of Seven prints: Three Harris, One Jackson. Upstairs is a large "Waterlilys" print I haven't hung yet.
Art is relaxing and easy on the eyes, and ALWAYS worth the money. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:53:40 AM | My house is a real roar...lots of big cats...tigers, pumas, lions. An origional photograph of John and Yoko, a few oils.
My switch plates are ACDC, Pink Floyd....need to find Hendrix and Zeppelin ones. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/22/2007 5:53:43 AM | I've got a very large framed print of Monet's Garden at Giverney hanging in the creativity region of my bedroom :) Im studying to practice feng shui and I made the decision to hang it because; I needed a boost in creativity and the print is great inspiration to get me painting again, its full of colours and every time I look at it i notice something new about how it was painted the strokes the lighting etc.. I'm aware it's probably a bit too yang for the bedroom, it being full of plantlife, but I spend a lot of time in that room when I'm in (not home too often) and do all my work there. Also from where my bed is located the print's in the phoenix aspect so I get a good view/perspective from where I lay 
Well that's where I began in my room, should have really traced the nine star path (more feng shui speak) but I'll get back to it. Suppose this is a datingy site so I'd advise people to not put pictures or statues of solitary people around the place, couple everything up! If you identify youre love and marriage area (google "bagua") of the room then put two red candles and pictures or statues in that area. Suppose I could kick off a new thread in the future and give more comprehensive advice. My love & marriage area needs some work btw, is why I'm here  | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/22/2007 9:07:41 AM | Great Question! I was born to collect art. My first piece I inherited as a gift when I was born, a beautiful tempera painting of a clown in a cubist style with a strong Picasso influence, created by my very talented Uncle (also my God Father), a well known artist in Europe. Done mostly in greens, violets, and blue, I was so mesmerized by it as a child I would stare at it and dream. I became an illustrator myself later in life. It is currently framed in a wood, art nouveau (not overly ornate) gold leaf, frame which seems to work.
Other paintings, etchings, prints, etc. are from my Uncle (combination of landscapes and cubist/modern pieces), and my own. I have fabulous framed black and white family photos and a collector print Erte framed in an Italian Art Deco frame.
I would like to get a Ken Done for my kitchen and a Michael Parkes for my bedroom. My wall art a guess is in some ways like the history of my family, myself and my Uncle's art. Other works, I love the mood, the colors and the fantasy styling of the subject matter. | |
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| The ART on your walls... and WHY?
Posted: 7/22/2007 11:18:50 AM | My 'artwork' isn't really artwork. I'm a University student and my roommate and I definitely have a college apartment. It's all posters. In my room I have several Johnny Depp movie still posters, and glossy's of him as several movie characters. In the living room we have some random posters; My personal favourite being our poster of Jay and Silent Bob, of the Kevin Smith movies fame.
When I actually own a place of my own, I would love to have "The Scream" and "American Gothic" in it. I have no idea how and where I could incorporate them, but I love both of those paintings, and don't know why. | |
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