Art on Friday

[ktzmoh]

What art is moving you lately? Bought anything for your walls or objets d'art? Going to any art fairs this summer? I need beauty and inspiration today...




PSA: Art.com is having 30% off your entire order today.

I ordered this to cheer myself up from the doldrums of some normal-life irritants:
 


but what I really wanted was this (spendy):



and what I really really want is this from that B&A blog post we chatted about this morning (spendy squared):

[mrs.jacinthe]

This was displayed at a wine tasting room we were at this weekend. We didn't buy it. We both wish we had:

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I completely suck at this. I love art in other people's homes. When I shop myself, I get paralyzed and simultaneous love and hate almost everything I see. So all of my walls are bare or have really cheap placeholders. I'm jealous that you guys can pick out what you would want.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jun 21, 2013 15:46:02 GMT -5 @juno said:

I completely suck at this. I love art in other people's homes. When I shop myself, I get paralyzed and simultaneous love and hate almost everything I see. So all of my walls are bare or have really cheap placeholders. I'm jealous that you guys can pick out what you would want.

Just because I know what I like doesn't mean I can afford it.  LOL

My walls fall under "bare or cheap placeholders" too.  For example, in my kitchen right now, I have 1) framed poster of a parisian cafe that I bought at Big Lots for $9.99 in 2003.  2) a calendar tea-towel from 1981, hanging on a dowel.  3) a bulletin board made from corks that we received as a wedding gift.  4) a wooden cheese board.  

You may feel superior now, if you'd like.  

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Ha! I have a flower painting from Big Lots on my LR wall. And a few photographs I've taken. I wouldn't mind spending some $$ on some art, but I don't even know where to start. I did buy a signed print from an artist once (not the original), and I really like it, so I shouldn't be as scared as I am, but I'm just so afraid of buying something that I'll later realize is hideous.

[ktzmoh]

Jun 21, 2013 20:49:59 GMT -5 nursecramer said:

I ordered the maps for the dining room (original post here pandce.proboards.com/thread/184554/offer-advice-dining-room-wall) but they haven't arrived yet (shipping from Europe) and last week H finally finished building the frame for the silk embroidered tapestry we bought the last time we were in China. We still plan to install a couple corner shelves. Maybe this weekend?

Can I ask how he made the frame? I have a very large painting (also from china) that I'd like to have in a nicer frame, but I am balking at the cost of framing a large piece like that. Did he construct the frame like a sandwich or did he use actual picture frame molding?

[magdala]

Jun 21, 2013 16:10:59 GMT -5 @juno said:

This is where you start.  You already own a piece of art--a signed print from an artist counts. If you later decide you don't like a piece of art, you sell it.   If a piece of art doesn't speak to you, why should you have it in your house.

[magdala]

I adore going to Art fairs and generally go with my Mom. DH hates it--he considers it shopping, another activity he loathes. We have two oils of landscape scenes, 3 limited edition art prints, three acrylics, two colored pen and ink drawings, two pencil drawings from my BIL, a framed napkin, and 15 framed posters. Each piece speaks to us in some way. I inherited the oils when my grandparents' passed. The napkin is an autograph and drawing by an author/illustrator that we both like. I framed it for DH when we were dating.

Other than this www.zaidan.ca/art_gallery/Renoir_Pierre_Auguste/Price_Study/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir_La_Danse_a_Bougival_Dance_At_Bougival.jpg I cannot find any of the images online.

[ktzmoh]

Awesome . Thanks nursecramer

[mrspez07]

Jun 21, 2013 15:46:02 GMT -5 @juno said:

I completely suck at this. I love art in other people's homes. When I shop myself, I get paralyzed and simultaneous love and hate almost everything I see. So all of my walls are bare or have really cheap placeholders. I'm jealous that you guys can pick out what you would want.

Ditto this. I have come close to buying something at art.com and world market, but I always balk. I really have a problem when I ask DH to help me decide. We also see stuff sometimes at fairs and galleries that we like but always wonder if we like them "enough" to put them on our walls.