Is the art you live with different then the art you love

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if so why ?
What art do you love, what art is above your couch ?

― anthony, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Love: Makoto Aida original drawings. Above couch: Makoto Aida reproduction cut out of magazine.

Difference in terms of use value: minimal. Both give me pleasure.

Difference in terms of exchange value: huge. One is an investment which will surely accumulate in value, the other worth no more than the paper it's printed on.

― Momus, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Momus you could sign it and declare the 'reproduction' as art.

― Jay Simon, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A nude male in charcoal by Peter Howson, lovingly christened as big Ron due to resemblance to said football manager/pundit.

Would love to have a full size Howson, but would have to move house to fit it in, indeed would have to sell house to afford one. Plenty of others I would like but don't for much the same reason esp cost.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a great part of art projects that I tend to love these days are not on a portable format, so an access to them on a regular basis could not be guaranteed .... I'm not so sure if I'm not sensible to the "aura" , single copy added value of most of older art . I'm very disappointed by the fact that ( for market reasons and technical limitations) net art hasn't developed as much as critics had thought few years ago ... if so I would put a computer screen on my couch .

― francesco, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perhaps more impt is art beneath yr couch.

― Geoff, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.claeysantique.com/laceedge/paintings/paint2.j pg
This is the art above my couch. Do I love it? Yes. Why? I love 19th century art.

― nathalie, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have all my own paintings on display. I like them. They are for sale.

― jel, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got a Magritte print - not an original, sorry - above my bed.
Don't know what it's called actually, it is of a red rose head, but if you look closer - hey! - it's a GIANT rose head filling an entire room! cRaZy!

― DavidM, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Much of the art I love is too expensive, but some of the art I live with is cool. I have a Tracey Emin story she wrote for me that wants framing, but cannot afford this just now.

Posters are good, esp. Gonzalez-Torres multiples and someone sent me a Takashi Murakami/Cartier Foundation one last week which now has pride of place.

Above my couch, a window, some Chinese lanterns, little piles of weirdly juxtaposed objects (Bo-tan Rice Candy boxes, blue gel squares, interesting club flyers, dust).

― suzy, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Above my couch: two smallish horned african masks, from the Yoruba/Benin region, but possibly Chokwe. An original silver print of a photo my friend took in Detroit, of an arch on an old theater.

On walls: Dali print of a woman looking out a cross-shaped window, from the beginning of his more surrealist period. Various artwork purchased from various arists. A painting I did in elementary school that was sent to Japan for seven years for an exhibition (they put it in a lovely frame, matted it and sent it back when I was in high school). A great photo I took of an old girlfriend.

I love the art that I have. I'd like some larger paintings; an El Lissitzky would be nice. I don't really feel that I'm lacking, though.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

on walls - a couple of small Odilon Redon prints that I bought for cheap at the smithsonian gift shop & then decided several years later that they were not very good prints so I collaged over parts of them myself, my favorite includes pictures of Daft Punk in their fancy new robot helmets. Oh, and I've got a postcard w/a photo of the Supreme Court tacked up, and one of a medieval painting of Mary Magdalene, and a row of three Toulouse-Lautrec prints, because I put stickers (from a concert I saw in 97) onto one so the man is saying "PAVEMENT" and the woman, "Wowee Zowee!" I plan to do arts and crafts in the next few weeks and hopefully put up some more random junk.

― daria g, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 06:49 (twenty-three years ago)