# I bought some art! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-some-art/395705 "2007-03-13T03:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-some-art/395705/1 "2007-03-13T03:24:48Z")
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. [Want to see?](http://www.portjacksonpress.com.au/showart.php?ref=ae1357pjpa53960372046) Opinions welcome! ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-some-art/395705/2 "2007-03-13T04:02:48Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-some-art/395705/3 "2007-03-13T04:27:27Z")
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](http://www.hanga.com/viewimage.cfm?ID=2136) and [this](http://www.hanga.com/viewimage.cfm?ID=2135), 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](http://www.aviewoncities.com/berlin/charlottenburg.htm) 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](http://www.spsg.de/media/de/schloss_charlottenburg_sued_portal.jpg) 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](http://www.spsg.de/index.php?id=32), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-some-art/395705/4 "2007-03-13T15:35:10Z")
**araminty** , how cool! I really like it! It reminds a little bit of some of [Jacek Yerka’s work.](http://yerka.org.ru/works_1.html)