So the other week, I went to a conference in another regional centre in Victoria. Part of the conference took place in the local art gallery, where I happened to see a print (a reduction linocut, actually) which I just couldn’t look away from. I think I spent about half an hour gazing at this picture. This is very unlike me - I’m not an arty-minded person at all. But when I got home, I Googled the artist, contacted her agent, and discovered there was another print available. Lots of money and a train trip to the city to collect it later, and I own art.
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Isn’t that the coolest thing, when that happens? I see art all the time (it’s part of my job to notice) and often it’s just there. Every now and then, though, a piece just grabs me and I can’t look away. It sounds all hippie-dippie and new age-y, but when that happens, I figure the art or the artist has something to tell me, and I should pay attention.
Good for you for bringing your message home with you!
I don’t like it, to be honest, but my tastes in art run more towards the kind of stuff my parents have in their house. Limited-run Japanese woodprints and other types of lithographs, mostly (generally a run of 500 or less.) They’ve got this and this, for instance. The other things are somewhat hard to describe–Dad’s got prints that refer to the Canterbury Tales, for instance, and somewhere they picked up a series of long and narrow prints of various Biblical subjects–Jacob’s ladder, Elijah’s chariot, and a couple others (I don’t remember and they’re all fairly abstract.) I have no idea how to find most of these–the Japanese pieces were a lucky hit.
The only piece of art of my own that I have in the house is a watercolor of the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin. It’s a closeup of the entrance (the statues are in the foreground and are the edges of the painting) and what can be seen of the palace beyond. Actually, it’s quite like this but without that green gate in the middle. I picked it up from an artist in Potsdam (it has, on the reverse, an unfinished painting of part of the Schloss Sanssouci, the dome in the middle. At least, I think that’s what it is, as I haven’t seen that side in years, not since I had it mounted, but I was very clear that it was to be mounted without using anything on that back side.) I don’t remember what I paid for it, something less than 100 Marks–probably closer to 50.
araminty, how cool! I really like it! It reminds a little bit of some of Jacek Yerka’s work.
