topic Re: Art in Home

Art

ninjawife — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:07:59 GMT

What art do you have in your home?

My husband and daughter are talented photographers so I have a lot of still ife and landscape photographs. I also have art that I have collected from around the world on trips. My favorite piece of art is a large poster print of Picasso's Guernica that I got from IKEA of all places. It is propped on my fireplace mantel.

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Dinaki — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:14:41 GMT

How lovely is that then!

Keep enjoying your art dear, life's short and beautifull!

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Jersey Born — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:23:19 GMT

Your art sounds lovely, @ninjawife . I have a lot of paintings that my father painted years ago (still lifes, a landscape, and portraits), and some paintings from his art instructors, too. I purchased a Walfrido on my honeymoon of a daytime, sunny seascape, complete with palm trees and lush mountains. I also have some art glass sculptures (mostly of sea life) that I collected years ago from my favorite childhood place to visit -- New Hope, Pennsylvania.

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AuntG — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:42:45 GMT

Very basic stuff - a lot of churches and cottages by Thomas Kinkade. His Christmas paintings are my favorites.

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PA Mom-mom — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:45:25 GMT

@ninjawife I don't think anyone who had expensive art would advertise.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:33:39 GMT

I have a lot of Southwest art I inherited from my mother and some I collected myself. Original oils, numbered prints, pottery, sculpture, rugs. My sister and I split it but I got the SW-themed stuff because she didn't want it.

My most cherished piece mom bought with her first paycheck from her first teaching job out of college. It's a large oil of Shiprock which she bought from the artist for $30. She said her parents were thoroughly disgusted with her. It always hung in the place of honor in our living room.

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LindaSal — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:45:11 GMT

My hubby is also an amateur photographer so we have several framed pictures hanging that he has taken over the years. We have only a couple of semi expensive art pieces and I have several of my kids drawings (they are both quite talented) that they did in college framed and hung. It's just a hobby for them and they get the talent from their uncle (my brother) who is also a very talented artist. I'm lucky I get to enjoy it everyday

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FranandZoe — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:27:18 GMT

In my living room two watercolors that my grandfather painted - he was a noted local artist. Another oil done by a friend. In my hallway I have large framed photos of my grandmother and her sister when they were kids - taken about 1890, one of my mom as a child taken in the late 20s and another of my grandmother's sister taken in the early 1900s. I have newer photo on my mantle - our wedding pic, pic of hubby and his sons at one of their high school grad parties, and our grandson's current school photo. We have older photos of grandson in our bedrooms.

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spud188 — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:51:34 GMT

I would love to see a photo of your Shiprock painting K. If you feel like sharing it??

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JYWilliams — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:29:55 GMT

Your pictures sound beautiful. I have some reproductions of Van Gogh and Monet.

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Oznell — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:05:33 GMT

I love hearing about other people's art. I like the contrast of abstracts combined with antiques, but I have a number of traditional prints as well... Nothing that I have is rare or expensive.

I have a large, abstract sort of Cubist type print in living room, a numbered 'giclee' of jazz singer Bessie Smith which is semi-abstract, a moody autumn landscape, and a hazy, semi abstract blue bay with boats...

Maybe my favorites are a set of four little water colors of street scenes in Paris that my Mother had framed for me. They are hung together, and immediately transport me over there when I look at them.

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wilma — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:49:30 GMT

We have a variety of art. A Monet reproduction, a Norman Rockwell print, landscapes, florals, prints with animals, etc. We have a few metal art pieces and 3D shadow box pieces too.

The 2 most unique things we have are an oil painting done by a friend of our first dog, Wilma, who passed away in 2016, and a large panoramic canvas print of the CA coastline made from a photo we took when we vacationed there.

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Sooner — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:57:26 GMT

Blissfully NONE in this house! I love not having things on the wall. I am enjoying the peaceful look of this house with minimum things.

We have a lot of art from us and from mom and I just don't care to see it any more. Those days are gone, the people who had them and the houses where they hung are gone, and I'm happy to move on since that is my path now.

It's stuffed in the back of all the closets.

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Lucky Charm — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:26:23 GMT

I have several originals from local artists in the towns I own homes in. Mostly pictures of waves and the beaches, but other familiar sights, too.

I also have framed photographs a dear friend took and he, too, was very talented. Many of the photos were of a cottage we once owned. He passed away a month ago, and as sad as I am to think he's gone, I'm so happy and proud to have these momentos.