Art on your walls...
Discussion
Ace-T said:
Bearing in mind art is very subjective 
we have just hung an almost accidental tryptich of portraits. The Cages poster is one graphic novel nerds would probably recognise from the 90s by Dave McKean, everyone knows who Sean is, but few would recognise (let alone like) the ugly man on the left. But somehow they all work in the space. I think of it as a rose and two thorns.
Absolute pig of a job to hang over the stairs though.
Lee Ellis did Ugly and Daniel Mernagh did Sean
I couldn’t live with the different frame sizes and borders. It doesn’t work as a triptych for me, I’d have to have them dotted about the walls randomly instead. we have just hung an almost accidental tryptich of portraits. The Cages poster is one graphic novel nerds would probably recognise from the 90s by Dave McKean, everyone knows who Sean is, but few would recognise (let alone like) the ugly man on the left. But somehow they all work in the space. I think of it as a rose and two thorns.Absolute pig of a job to hang over the stairs though.
Lee Ellis did Ugly and Daniel Mernagh did Sean
Antony Moxey said:
I couldn’t live with the different frame sizes and borders. It doesn’t work as a triptych for me, I’d have to have them dotted about the walls randomly instead.
I think it works and I like the contrast of colour, size and shape of the pictures and their borders. Taste is perennially subjective but I find the fashion for matching pictures rather controlled and restricting. The Victorians were so obsessed with matching picture frames they would even cut down paintings to fit so there's nothing new under the sun.dbdb said:
Antony Moxey said:
I couldn’t live with the different frame sizes and borders. It doesn’t work as a triptych for me, I’d have to have them dotted about the walls randomly instead.
I think it works and I like the contrast of colour, size and shape of the pictures and their borders. Taste is perennially subjective but I find the fashion for matching pictures rather controlled and restricting. The Victorians were so obsessed with matching picture frames they would even cut down paintings to fit so there's nothing new under the sun.Trustmeimadoctor said:
dbdb said:
Antony Moxey said:
I couldn’t live with the different frame sizes and borders. It doesn’t work as a triptych for me, I’d have to have them dotted about the walls randomly instead.
I think it works and I like the contrast of colour, size and shape of the pictures and their borders. Taste is perennially subjective but I find the fashion for matching pictures rather controlled and restricting. The Victorians were so obsessed with matching picture frames they would even cut down paintings to fit so there's nothing new under the sun.Trustmeimadoctor said:
Yeah it doesn't work as a triptych because well they aren't 3 parts of the same picture
But as 3 pieces it works
Not that I'd have any of them. But then most wouldn't want any of my stuff
Triptych was obviously the wrong description, you are completely correct. But as 3 pieces it works
Not that I'd have any of them. But then most wouldn't want any of my stuff
The photo doesn't really do the setting justice, hanging them there has made a massive difference to the character of the room (in a good way
)Ugly is tough to like, in fact when we first saw him we pretty much said ewww, no. However, I couldn't stop looking at him. He grew on us, admittedly like a wart
, but there is just something fascinating about him.As many have said, art is utterly subjective.
dudleybloke said:
bigandclever said:
Google lens translate will have a good go at the text.
Good thinking.
Nothing coming up when I search him so it must be priceless!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Asen_a...
So it's Bulgarian looks like it's actually called Assene warriors can't make the name out tho
Actually might be Ivan or ivon but yeah then I'm out with the quality of the picture of the name
Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Sunday 9th July 22:35
Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Sunday 9th July 22:44
Bit of a departure for us, some graphic stuff in the kitchen:
An old poster advertising a public driving test at Catterick Army Camp in the 1960s (we live nearby) and an old French school poster from the same period, both found in a junk shop and bought for the pricely sum of a tenner.
I made the hanging bars for the poster from some walnut offcuts and brass rivnuts.
An old poster advertising a public driving test at Catterick Army Camp in the 1960s (we live nearby) and an old French school poster from the same period, both found in a junk shop and bought for the pricely sum of a tenner.
I made the hanging bars for the poster from some walnut offcuts and brass rivnuts.
Trustmeimadoctor said:
So it's likely the uprising of Asen and Peter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Asen_a...
So it's Bulgarian looks like it's actually called Assene warriors can't make the name out tho
Actually might be Ivan or ivon but yeah then I'm out with the quality of the picture of the name
Cool! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Asen_a...
So it's Bulgarian looks like it's actually called Assene warriors can't make the name out tho
Actually might be Ivan or ivon but yeah then I'm out with the quality of the picture of the name
Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Sunday 9th July 22:35
Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Sunday 9th July 22:44
jammy-git said:
Does anyone have any recommendations on where to find something for a 2.5m x ~80cm horizontal gap? I'm hoping I can find one large spectacular panorama.
Some ideas from this thread?https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We recently moved home and bought a few pieces from the local gallery but couldn’t find anything we liked to specifically put on one of the hallway wall so ended up asking an artist (Rozanne Bell) to create us a piece;
Still need quite a few more pieces, but no doubt we get them over time.
Still need quite a few more pieces, but no doubt we get them over time.
Hobo said:
We recently moved home and bought a few pieces from the local gallery but couldn’t find anything we liked to specifically put on one of the hallway wall so ended up asking an artist (Rozanne Bell) to create us a piece;
Still need quite a few more pieces, but no doubt we get them over time.
That goes lovely against the wall colour Still need quite a few more pieces, but no doubt we get them over time.
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