What's your favourite painting or print in your home?

Question

Norm - I never took you as a Van Gogh fan! All us senti-mentalists love him!

Ah, I'm getting some lovely answers. You get a real impression of people from the art they like......and extra big cheer to mums and dads loving the works of their little ones!

Max - extra star for noting your wedding day as best day ever. For a big hairy monster you are a really a big softie....love your pic! Is Mrs Max the R2-D2 lookalike?

I can't decide between my two Dalis (forget the awful abstract stuff)...
http://www.terra.es/personal/asg00003/dali/mujer.html

http://www.terra.es/personal/asg00003/dali/ventana.html

WhiskeyTango - good on you for having that picture. Very moving.

Norm - now you're talking mate...love photography...got loads of books (British Press Photographers Association Year Books, Magnum stuff, Life (the mag) stuff, Man Ray etc, and equipment that I never use enough. What area of photography do you focus on?

Gurney - you aren't corny. I am not sure if it is a populist image in the US but I did not know it over here. Just read the information about the picture. It has inspired me to read a biography of George Washington.

Answer 1

The canvasses that my kids made. They look better and more expensive than any of the tat in Tate Modern. And they mean something to me....priceless.

Answer 2

Jasper Johns, Moratorium, 1969
Lithograph on paper Edition of 300
signed in pencil
The greatest formal anti-war/civil disobedience visual work of the 20th century.
In 1969 a network of antiwar activists across the US planned the National Vietnam Moratorium, a nationwide coordinated protest against the war on Vietnam. Activist and student groups set Wednesday October 5th, 1969 as the target date for mass demonstrations. The Leo Castelli Gallery of Los Angeles commissioned Jasper Johns to create a poster for the Moratorium. The artist was famous for his pop art renditions of the American flag -works that were iconic celebrations of patriotism equally enjoyed by all citizens. But his poster for the Moratorium was a departure from his red, white, and blue paintings.

Johns painted a toxic flag, a national symbol poisoned by war. The stripes in his flag were black and green, with the sickly green looking vaguely like jungle camouflage. The nauseating orange field was filled with blackened stars. In the center of the painted flag was a single white dot - representing a bullet hole. The design was the perfect banner for an ailing America in the throes of an unpopular imperial war. Johns' painting was published as a poster with the single word "Moratorium" stenciled beneath the flag. The mechanically printed poster was distributed far and wide, and according to Deborah Wye, Chief Curator of Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the poster "became one of the most well known images of the Vietnam period." Johns also signed a special edition of the poster to raise much needed funds for the antiwar movement. On the actual day of the Moratorium, university campuses across the nation either canceled classes or were paralyzed by student strikes, and some 30 million Americans participated in some type of protest against US engagement in South East Asia.
The author misinterprets the color choice as a visceral choice not as one drawn from intellect. The green, black and orange produces an afterimage of red, white and blue.
Much like an upside down flag symbolizes distress; the color reversal evokes a similar emotion, as the only way to reconstruct the colors of the after image, is to stare at the negative flag, saturate the retina and optic nerve, relax and let the brain resolve the image into a red, white and blue flag.

Answer 3

Two prints by Graciela Rodo Boulanger - 'Fille Au Violoncelle' and 'Le Chat De La Mariee'. She's an amazingly gifted artist - born in Bolivia, raised in Argentina and currently resident in France. Her way of portraying children with great charm, but no sentimentality, is unique.

Answer 4

In our front room we have a print of a painting. It is of a young oriental girl, possibly Malay or certainly from that part of the world.
She is sitting upright with her legs drawn up underneath and to the side. She is wearing a long sleeved white ( silk ) jacket ! and her legs are covered by a piece of pink material. She is looking sideways at the artist and her hair is styled up and on the top of her scalp.. Behind, and to her side is a letter on the floor, the look on her face suggests a long lost love. If anyome knows who this is by, please let me know. It is a beautiful picture.

Answer 5

I have a painting by a virtual unknown called "Elena is dreaming"

It is a beautiful spanish looking lady reclining in a flowing red flamenco dress .. the background is reds, ambers and gold and depicts a dream like state ...

It is a stunning picture that my partner and I can just stare at, completely captivated ...

But thats what art is all about :)

Answer 6

Flaming June

Answer 7

These photos I took last semester--the setting is right in front of my apartment building, but it's all foggy and looks like a completely different place, maybe someplace in the country.
I also have this print I did that's just a couple of liitle purple rectangles right in the middle of this huge sheet of paper that I like.

Answer 8

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.
(A re-production)
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No so much a senti-mentalists, Geekie. A lover of creativity, imagination, beauty and 'A Lust For Life'.

Answer 9

A water colour of a snow-covered Yorkshire cottage by Rachel McNaughton

Answer 10

The one on the stairs of some sheep in a flowery meadow, it's very calming especially when confronted with the stress of walking down the stairs (and all that downstairs bestows).