What works by famous artists have you hung in your home (and where)?

Question

"Lines Of Marks" by Wassily Kandinsky overlooking the lounge.

Just copies.. not originals.

La Trahison des Images

Looked it up on Google Images.. is that the one that looks like a smoking pipe??!!

LOL - I have to say I quite like "Klimt's the kiss". Plenty going on. Lots to see. A bit busy for a living room though.

Generally though, good to see there are a few art appreciators on YA. I was starting to feel it was only racists and people with relationship problems that came on here.

Answer 1

I have Klimt's the kiss in my living room and a Nagel. I absolutely hate the Nagel because I think it looks like it belongs on the set of Miami Vice, but my husband likes it.

I agree with you aboutThe Kiss being too busy for the living room. I went out of town & my husband and father in law decided to surprise me by doing a "hanging". I now have very bizarrely hung pictures in my living room. One of these days I will re-arrange everything. I am also hoping to hang a male nude self-portrait of a friend of mine from uni. I love it; it reminds me of a cross between Scheile & Bacon (now THAT will shock the moral majority Americans - tee-hee naughty me!!!)

Answer 2

No He was executed on a stake/tree/timber. Jesus Christ did not die on a cross. The Greek word generally translated “cross” is stau·ros′. It basically means “an upright pale or stake.” The Companion Bible points out: “[Stau·ros′] never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle . . . There is nothing in the Greek of the [New Testament] even to imply two pieces of timber.” In several texts, Bible writers use another word for the instrument of Jesus’ death. It is the Greek word xy′lon. (Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24) This word simply means “timber” or “a stick, club, or tree.” Explaining why a simple stake was often used for executions, the book Das Kreuz und die Kreuzigung (The Cross and the Crucifixion), by Hermann Fulda, states: “Trees were not everywhere available at the places chosen for public execution. So a simple beam was sunk into the ground. On this the outlaws, with hands raised upward and often also with their feet, were bound or nailed.” There is no evidence that for the first 300 years after Christ’s death, those claiming to be Christians used the cross in worship. In the fourth century, however, pagan Emperor Constantine became a convert to apostate Christianity and promoted the cross as its symbol. Whatever Constantine’s motives, the cross had nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The cross is, in fact, pagan in origin. The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The cross is found in both pre-Christian and non-Christian cultures.” Various other authorities have linked the cross with nature worship and pagan sex rites. Why, then, was this pagan symbol promoted? Apparently, to make it easier for pagans to accept “Christianity.” Nevertheless, devotion to any pagan symbol is clearly condemned by the Bible. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) The Scriptures also forbid all forms of idolatry. (Exodus 20:4, 5; 1 Corinthians 10:14)

Answer 3

I have a framed print of a photo taken with a pinhole camera put together by my friend Sarah. She has been working with various cameras for years and has had some on display in local galleries and restaurants. The print I have is a house in a Chicago neighborhood, using the pinhole camera, that is pretty cool. She has a good eye especially for black and white. I also have a Van Gogh print of the Hospital at Saint Remy. I saw the original in a Armand Hammer exhibit twenty years ago and promptly fell in love with Van Gogh.

Answer 4

Have a few of Christine Comyn - as giclee limited prints, in the living room - and one in a bedroom

Two by Alan Hunt - 'Magnificent' (Golden Eagle) - in storage
A Seerey Lester & a Guy Coheleach in the spare room

Perhaps not world renound - but fairly famous in their own right.

Answer 5

I don't have room to hang anything (the wall is the only place i have left to store my art projects), but if I did, I would hang: Christina's World, by Andrew Wyeth, almost anything by Albert Bierstadt, and anything by Escher except his tesseract stuff. There're a few others, but I can't remember their names or painters.

Answer 6

The kiss by Gustav Klimt, hanging in my bedroom.

Answer 7

Well, not exactly in my home but I have "La Trahison des Images" as my desktop background...

Yes the one with the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". I have no idea why I find that so amusing!

Answer 8

I once nailed a can of Heinz Tomatoe soup to the wall does that count?

Answer 9

I have a self portrait pencil sketch by Dana Levin the prominent classical realism, academic art, still life, and figure painter.
http://www.bertgallery.com/biographies/levin.php

Answer 10

I have 34 paintings by Robin Clifton on my walls each one a masterpiece. His website is www.robinclifton.com