Do you remember?

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

I was thinking tonight about art. We have some. Nothing that's worth much, but it means something to either one or both of us. I was just curious to know what was the first piece of art that touched you so much that you just had to have it.

This is mine....

The litho was hanging with some other pieces that were for sale as a side business for the beauty shop that my mother used to go to when I was about 6 years old. I still love the piece. It has a special spot in our home. I realize that it's not worth much, but it's simple beauty touched me as a child and I still love it today. It was a gift from Santa.

Care to share?

 

[nordkin]

Mine was this piece by Bill Mack. It was expensive for my budget at the time, but I had to have it and it has greatly appreciated over the years. It is a sand sculpture that we have hanging over our bed.

Donna

 

[jlewisinsyr]

"Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" by Seurat

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

I was just discussing with DH that we need some "art." I would love something by Andy Warhol (SP?) but I wouldn't know where to put it in the house - Our whole house is Asian looking!!!

 

[rpmdfw]

"Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" by Seurat

One of my favorites!

As is this one:

 

[sunnydoozer]

One of my favorites!

As is this one:

These are my two favourite paintings Usually I mention Seurat and everybody looks at me confused. Steve Martin forever endeared himself to me, when he said the one thing he would take with him if his house was on fire, was a Seurat sketch he owned.

And as for the Renoir, the Phillips collection was at the Albright Knox gallery (touring because of some renovations at home). In person there are no words its absolutely stunning.

 

[rpmdfw]

These are my two favourite paintings Usually I mention Seurat and everybody looks at me confused. Steve Martin forever endeared himself to me, when he said the one thing he would take with him if his house was on fire, was a Seurat sketch he owned.

And as for the Renoir, the Phillips collection was at the Albright Knox gallery (touring because of some renovations at home). In person there are no words its absolutely stunning.

I know. We saw it at the Phillips collection in DC when we had an unexpected day long lay over in 2006. We got to Paris a day late, but I got to spend an hour with that breathtaking painting. Not a bad trade off.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Our walls are naked.

Back in the days when DH and I were first dating/married I had some framed posters. A Dali, a Monet, a big obnoxious flower thing. When we moved 5 years ago he told me I couldn't hang the posters because we were too old for posters as art. (This from the man who displays beer bottles. If we are too old for posters we are too old for commemorative beer bottles.) OK, so yeah, the posters were pretty "80's", but now we have NOTHING on our walls. Our hallway is the gallery of DS (a bunch of framed 8x10's of him from birth through about age 3) but the living room has nothing. I have dozens of framed photos of DS on the entertainment center. More framed photos of DS in the master bedroom, no actual art.

If I was creative I guess I could buy a bunch of matching frames and create some sort of massive photo collage on the wall over the couch. But I'm not creative, and frames are expensive. So it is what it is.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

If I was creative I guess I could buy a bunch of matching frames and create some sort of massive photo collage on the wall over the couch. But I'm not creative, and frames are expensive. So it is what it is.

We did this in our dining room, spent about $150 on frames from Home Goods and spent about a day finding and printing off our digital photos, cutting them out and framing them.

Every once in a while, we swap out some photos (like neices and nephews) and buy another frame to add to the wall.

Actually art wise, we have some prints in the living room of Ansel Adams, but they really don't go with anything. We used to have more of a B&W theme in our living room, and these are a carry over. We bought new leather furniture a few years ago and just finally bought some lamps. So now that we have a style occuring, we can replace the prints with something else. We actually were looking at this Sorcerer Mickey large glicee (oil print) for over the couch, but haven't really decided.

The rest of the place is decorated with some no-name art including a floral in the bedroom and bathroom.

 

[wallyb]

Rene Magritte
Andy Warhol
The Les Fauves movement particularly - Franz Marc
Kenny Sharf

 

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

Mine was this piece by Bill Mack. It was expensive for my budget at the time, but I had to have it and it has greatly appreciated over the years. It is a sand sculpture that we have hanging over our bed.

Donna

Nice piece. We have a Joy Argento lithograph called Sleeping In that we custom framed to look like you were peeking in thru a window onto the women as they lay there in bed. Sleeping In is an L-Word themed piece of Bette and Tina, which we bought and framed before they split up and got back together again. lol

Are there any Maxfield Parrish fans on the board? One day, I will have Daybreak. I have wanted it for over 10 years now. I have come across a couple of prints, but none that were in good enough shape to make me pay the prices that were on them.

 

[OrlandoMike]

This hung on the wall of my High School cafeteria, and probably got me more interested in art than any other piece. If you are a Dali fan, and coming to Florida, you should know there is a great Dali museum in Clearwater!

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

WHAT A GREAT THREAD!!!!!!!

There is just something about certain works of art that makes you want to look at them and then look at them some more. Oddly, I think (Not 100% sure; I was pretty little) that the first paintings that did that for me were photographs (probably in LIFE magazine of some of the Lascaux (sp?)cave paintings.

 

[padalyn]

The first piece that struck me was painted by my grandfather, and unfortunately my step-grandmother decided to give it away. I am still hunting for it.

It was a volcano that was erupting, all the bottom was the black mountain, the fire and lava took the middle of the painting (lots of strong colors and vibrance) then in the ash and smoke above was a single small dove flying. He told me the painting represented hope in the face of everything.

Since that is not available to me I was next touched by Michael Godard piece: Mystery Martini, I didn't buy that one -

but did buy two others of his: Nursing a Martini2, and Party Foul - since they represent by two professions!

 

[Saxton]

And as for the Renoir, the Phillips collection was at the Albright Knox gallery (touring because of some renovations at home). In person there are no words its absolutely stunning.

I completely agree! I saw it at the Albright Knox and I was completely mesmerized. I just kept standing there looking at it, the color, depth and detail were incredible.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

This hung on the wall of my High School cafeteria, and probably got me more interested in art than any other piece. If you are a Dali fan, and coming to Florida, you should know there is a great Dali museum in Clearwater!

I went to high school in St. Pete, so I know that museum.

We did this in our dining room, spent about $150 on frames from Home Goods and spent about a day finding and printing off our digital photos, cutting them out and framing them.

Every once in a while, we swap out some photos (like neices and nephews) and buy another frame to add to the wall.

Actually art wise, we have some prints in the living room of Ansel Adams, but they really don't go with anything. We used to have more of a B&W theme in our living room, and these are a carry over. We bought new leather furniture a few years ago and just finally bought some lamps. So now that we have a style occuring, we can replace the prints with something else. We actually were looking at this Sorcerer Mickey large glicee (oil print) for over the couch, but haven't really decided.

The rest of the place is decorated with some no-name art including a floral in the bedroom and bathroom.

What is Home Goods? There was an ad for them in our Sunday paper, and a TV commercial on last night. DS made the comment that we don't have one of those stores. If we have one I have no idea where it is located.


I think it would be much easier to dust the photos if they were on the wall instead of all clustered together on top of the entertainment center, but getting them all moved to matching frames and then hanging them sounds like a very labor intensive project.

 

[rpmdfw]

What is Home Goods? There was an ad for them in our Sunday paper, and a TV commercial on last night. DS made the comment that we don't have one of those stores. If we have one I have no idea where it is located.

Think what it'd be like if TJ Maxx did a home accessories store. That's Home Goods

 

[zeitzeuge]

Being an Artist myself, I always had such a critical eye for artwork. But once I spot something that moves me, I can literally be moved to tears just viewing the right piece. I spent 15 years of my life as a glassblower, so the first time I bought a piece of sculptured glass from a very prominent glass artist, I couldn't stop starring at the piece for days.

 

[wallyb]

Think what it'd be like if TJ Maxx did a home accessories store. That's Home Goods

TJX owns both stores.
and Marshals

 

[rpmdfw]

TJX owns both stores.
and Marshals

I know.