What Kind of Art do you Buy for your Own Walls at Home?
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What Kind of Art do you Buy for your Own Walls at Home? Paintings, posters, art prints, photos? What are the subjects - like landscapes, portraits, etc. Are they in a specific style - like Pop Art, impressionism, surrealism, etc.? Excluding the art you create yourself.
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we have high quality framed prints of the works of the Group of Seven that are our favourites.
I don't buy art... honestly I think it would be more interesting to include art people make themselves in addition to purchased art.
Also stolen artwork too... it's unfair to not allow someone who has gone through the trouble of engineering a great art heist to not let them list that, just because they didn't "buy" it... clearly they appreciate it enough to go through the trouble of stealing it.
Whats the point of having Rembrandt's "Storm On The Sea Of Galilee" or Degas' "La Sortie de Pesage" if I can't list it...
I do not have in my possession nor ever have had in my possession either of the aforementioned pieces of art... I have no idea why I randomly chose those two pieces that I only just now realize were actually stolen some years ago... in fact I never even heard of the word art and aside from being employed as an art handler years ago, have never in any way come in contact with anything remotely describable as art, whatever that may be... I'm assuming some sort of vegetable or flying mammal... please ignore my previously post statement.
Thank you.
I have movie posters up. Right now I have Zhang Yimou's Hero, the French poster of Fallen Angels from Wong Kar-Wai, Young and Dangerous 2, Jackie Chan's Gorgeous that I got from Blockbuster when I worked there, the Thai version of the Battle Royale poster, and an 11x17 poster of Sin City that I got when I drove down to Austin for the premiere many, many years ago. I haven't had a chance to get new frames for the posters I had on my walls when I lived in LA which were all Wong Kar-Wai films, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, 2046, Days of Being Wild. I plan on getting those back up very soon.
Promo posters for ancient computer parts
I don't really purchase art to hang up or other wise. I have two large framed medieval type prints I found awhile back around the entertainment section, a couple of large signed SciFi movie posters on other walls, a panoramic framed castles of Europe print over the fireplace and then smaller odds and ends I have had for awhile. I have a few display swords, daggers, shields and helms on mantles and shelves, hence the medieval theme in prints. I also live in an apt, so I tend not to accumulate to much stuff that I will have to move at some point.
Heaven forbid I ever get a 3D printer, my shelves will be full, LOL
I'm not much for decorating, so most of the art hanging up in the house is either stuff my wife drew/painted or her anime banners, but here's my stuff:
The best guitar:
Random Chinese art I found:
Posters that came with a Dresden Kodak book:
An anniversary gift for my wife, who loves Steven Universe and art nouveau, especially Mucha. I had to commission the Garnet:
I actually just purchased my very first work of art. Like, capital A Art, not couting posters, prints, figurines, and such.
It's a colourful tapestry based on this photo from the HK protests. The first one, with the archer in the gas mask.
I'm very excited! I wish I could be an art collector. But I'm not riche.
My wife and I haven't hung out much. I really like this mirror. We also hung some of her aunt's work and her Moms embroidery from when she was young
A couple of "starving artist" still life paintngs in a vaguely oriental theme, a triptych of swans on placid stream framed by a flowering plum branch in the great room; a Japanese bunka of a junk in full sail my mother did some years back, and a print of M C Escher's Belvedere in the den. And a couple of pen and ink sketches my sister did of scenes from Mackinac Island in the master bedroom. A few other still life works scattered around.
Steve Hanks and Doug West, with one retro Nagel piece in the master bedroom
I don't have any art hanging up. My mother used to have this weird old looking painting, she found at a thrift shop, of three ships at sea, that had this very odd brown tone. No one really liked it, but she hung it up any way, and we all joked that it was Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Though we would say the Ninja, the Pina Colada and The Hidee-ho Three.
My family is weird.
I have a few (Ich habe eine wenege?) nagels
hammered into the walls...
forgot to mention - two framed Byzantine icons, and the obligatory phots of the kids and grandkids..
I have a full set of vintage-style Middle Earth travel posters for my office, though I haven't gotten around to hanging them all so I've included a picture from someone else who has the set (there are twelve but they only have nine in their picture). Each one is absolutely stunning. My fave is Rohan (no surprise there) and that is the one I've hung so far -
A couple of Waterhouse canvas reproductions, a tapestry, a few axes, and the rest are my pieces, because my family loves me :-)
I don't have room for art. My house is small (1300 square feet) and the living room walls are already occupied by a massive aquarium and my guitar, violin, and other instruments. I keep promising myself I'll eventually buy art, but that has never happened.
One of my friends has one of those "display niche" features at the entry to his home. He and his wife mounted one of the torches from a past Olympic torch run (the run that they did all around the world and ending either in Athens or in the city where it was being held; I think it was the latter). His (or her?) father had been invited to run a half-mile or something with the torch lit. And he was offered the chance to buy the torch he carried at the conclusion.
Of course he bought it, are you crazy? Anyway, eventually, the torch ended up in my friends' home proudly on display, complete with a spotlight on it at the entry to their home. Stunning, and that torch was a work of art, for sure.
My home has two niches, one at head level and the other at knee level. I'm STILL looking for something appropriate to put on display.
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I'll bet Sunday dinner was a riot!
This shows how different expectations can be in each country. Our house is possibly on the larger than average size (for the UK) at 1200 square feet and we have 32 prints/embroideries/paintings currently hanging up. The house is from 1896 so there are a fair few good sized rooms where we can hang pictures on the walls. The first house I owned was 800 square feet, and housed eleven people from two families in the 1891 census that was 'snug' for two.
Regards,
Richard
I have a poster of Still Life on a Table by Henri Matisse purchased at the Met, poster of Two Ovals by Kandinsky from the Musee de Orsey, Egyptian wall plaque from Met, one of these (my sister went to that Christmas party), a load of Archiblocks in different styles like this,
my previous post was a joke that fell flat
nagel is German for nail
but in reality I hang things on my walls
fans, masks, dried flower wreaths, jewelry/ornaments, hats to names a few
Oh, it didn't get by me. I have a bunch of them, but they are still in the box.
My home office is chockful of artwork my kids made through their grade school and high school years. Priceless for me. And yes I did buy them. It how the kids got their spending money.
I just thought you were talking about actual Nagel prints which I used to have quite a few https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nagel
My taste in art has evolved over the last 5 decades. I started out with hippie blacklight posters thumbtacked to the walls of my college dorm room and various communal places I'd lived. Yeah, crude & tacky!
In Florida, when I got my first privately owned house I proudly tacked a large painting of a couple of peacocks on black velvet. Yeah, not quite so cheap but still crude and tacky!
Then my other half and I found each other. He moved in, and immediately began correcting my taste in art.
Suddenly we found ourselves with various objet d'art on the tables and properly framed prints or lithographs of famous paintings properly hung on the walls. When we moved to Washington, DC I started making much more money and he was enjoying spending it. The objet d'art and paintings went through many improvements, replacements, and additions of higher and higher quality. At one time I had three early editions of Remington and Russel bronzes and a signed Salvador Dali' lithograph bought directly from the Dali' museum in St. Petersburg, Florida at a cost of $50 before he died. Then we spent nearly $400 getting it framed elegantly. A few years later Dali' died and we resold the Dali' lithograph for $5000. One of my few good financial investments.
Gotta keep looking for bargains on the works of nearly dead famous artists.
OK, so now my other half had retrained me to look for "artful" things. Many visits to museums and galleries in various cities increased our collection of lithographs but few of them ever made it into frames or onto the wall. Things like the early American landscapes of the Hudson River area by Thomas Cole. And other similar works of that era, such as the philosophical series "Voyage of Life"
and sociological series "Course of Empire"
both series also by Thomas Cole (Note: I saw all four of the HUGE paintings of "Course of Empire" in one room when they were gathered all together at the Museum of Art in Washington, DC for a few weeks many years ago. Majorly impressive!)
During this time we met a struggling artist named Erwin Mayr who painted marvelous oil portraits and florals, and he had come from a depressing experience in NY City. Max (my other half) introduced Erwin to the art galleries in Washington and his works started selling well. To thank Max for his help in getting a foot in the door, Erwin did an oil portrait of Max, and also gave us an original floral oil painting and several signed lithographs. The paintings hung on our walls in Washingon but the lithographs were unframed and rolled up into an art storage tube for nearly 25 years. Erwin did several portraits of politicians and foreign dignitaries while in Washington but then both Erwin and Max died (Aids) just a couple years after that.
So, fast forward a couple of decades and I was finally able, to get the three Erwin Mayr lithographs properly framed and hung on the walls where I now live. The three images are related to Erwin's life in America (he was Austrian) and represent Max's contribution to Erwin's success. The first painting is titled "Despair in New York", a floral of a small pot of colorful plants on an almost real but somewhat surealistic window sill looking out on semi-surealistic, gray, lifeless towers of Manhattan. The 2nd painting in the series is titled "Prosperity" a big vase of beautiful flowers on an exquisitly detailed lace table cloth, representing the success he achieved with Max's help. And the 3rd painting is titled "Life". An even larger painting of a vase of flowers bursting with huge blooms, and even more exquisitly painted tablecloths, but one flower stem is broken and the bloom starting to whither. Erwin knew at that time that he was dying and he was the broken flower. Now those three lithographs and his original oil portrait of Max are the primary pictures on my wall, all properly framed.
But I also have four of my own photographs of flowers or buildings on the wall, as well as a cartoon oil portrait of Max and myself in the basket of a balloon with our cat at the time, painted by another friend of ours who actually died in our apartment.
Max was a registered nurse (among other things) and took care of him in a monitored hospice type of situation. He was near the end, in bed talking with us and his father one moment, then the next he was gone(Aids) and I ended up having to help the undertaker to carry his frail, skeletonized body down three floors through a narrow twisting stairwell. So, I have a lot of attachment to that cartoon painting.
In addition to the paintings and photos, I have a few framed lithographs by Tom Of Finland. Images of hot but tastefully half-clothed guys. And a signed original pencil sketch by William Schmelling (aka: The Hun) of a barely-clothed barbarian named "Gohr" that had appeared on the cover of one of his published comic books.
I even have had rugs on my wall. For a while we went to many oriental rug auctions in the Washington, DC area and bought many small but fine rugs. A couple of them made it to the walls or table tops over the years but not right now, I don't have enough wall space here. Although I do have a Qum silk miniature rug 9x9 inches that is my pride and joy (the only 100% silk rug I could afford). But now serves as a display platform for some of my baubles.
The point being to all the words above is that despite my naive and crude concept of art as a youth, I was trained well by Max and now try to have on my walls, only things that I have made, or things that are of high sentimental value because I knew the people who made them. Or things of high financial value. Unfortunately, over the years I've had to sell most of the things that had any sort of high financial value.
And to finish up the "things on my walls" theme, I have my bedroom. Up there I have created an homage to the late '60s, early '70s and have four newly purchased hippie blacklight posters and the requisite blacklight. But now they are properly framed and create the ambience for my bedroom that I had liked best during my life. I also have some of the more risque works of Tom Of Finland and The Hun, framed on the wall up there.
It's interesting that so many people have art/work created by family members, and things to which they have strong emotional ties. It's also amazing nobody's said Van Gogh, Picasso, Andy Warhol, or Monet. Is the art you create a reflection of the art you display on your walls? I have a mixture of things. The best is the blouse Judy is wearing https://m.facebook.com/OfficialLiza/photos/judy-garland-and-official-liza-minnelli-taped-the-judy-garland-show-on-this-date/10151676540374765/
And I have this poster http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3935414
And I got this from a restaurant that was closing https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-framed-print-vladimir-473880540
well there is a small cheapo Monet bridge print in my hallway
this one but a very tiny cheap reproduction
one more to mention. we do have a signed Robert Bateman in the hallway...and a ceramic Green Man wall plaque/hanging scultpure, by a local artist..