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Have you ever fallen in love with a work of Art?

BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
edited July 7 in Heaven
I hadn't - until yesterday.

Our old Methodist Chapel is being transformed into an arts centre. The launch was yesterday. The undercroft is gallery space.

One piece - a photograph printed on aluminium - has blown me away.

My heart beats faster when I picture it. I can't stop thinking of it.

I phoned the artist and asked the price. He's doing a limited edition print run soon. It's very very expensive but not completely out of my range. I've gathered all my bits of gold I never wear to sell. Then I'll ask my son to consider contributing half as an investment.

I'm obsessed!

I can't link to it because, seen on screen just doesn't do it justice.

It's one of those pieces you could sit and look at all day. It reminds me a bit of a Rothko - simple but deep as a well.

Comments

  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    Cool!

    Yes. It happens to me all the time and I buy them on impulse.

    Same with poems, although those are a lot cheaper as you only need to buy the book.

    Enjoy your purchase. It sounds exciting!

    May the love affair endure.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    edited July 7
    You need to love what you hang on your walls, since you'll be looking at it every day.

    Main picture in this room is a pastel of sunrise over Greyabbey, the lightening skies reflected in an expanse of wet sand. Totally undramatic but you could look at it forever.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    Yes, many times. Most of the time it's online, and I can keep a screenshot of it to look at (since buying art is almost always out of range financially for me). In a couple of rare cases, I could scare up the money for it. In a couple of heartbreaking cases, I could neither buy it nor find any way to ever see it again....
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    "Scare up the money" - good phrase!

    🙂

    I've never bought art before.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Park Near Lucerne by Paul Klee

    I love the way some of the lines could be either natural objects or people.

    Not otherwise a huge fan of Klee.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    On the chimney breast opposite where I am sitting now there is a large painting of an avenue of trees on Jesus Green, Cambridge. It is about 1 metre by 1 metre 20, and done in pastels in an impressionist style. We saw it at an exhibition at our church, fell in love with it, and Mr Heavenly bought it for my birthday.
    We have other original art; a small picture of a river in oils by the same artist and an amazing cheetah portrait by a friend. The latter is in pastels but so lifelike it looks like a photograph. Mr Heavenly’s father does oil painting and in the kitchen we have a large painting of a waterfall in Skye that Mr Heavenly commissioned from him to paint from a photograph before we were married.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    I fell in love with a cat called Marmaduke carved out of totara (Podocarpus totara) a native NZ conifer. It's now held at Te Papa, The Museum of NZ. Once when I was visiting Wellington I popped in to see it and was taken behind the scenes for a visit. The head of the cat is stained by the hands of the man people who must have stroked it when it was in the old museum which didn't have a note saying not to touch it.

    And yes, when I was a child I was one of the strokers.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    I have a glass tumbler that I bought in a hardware store in the village of Vammala, in Finland, in the summer of 1968 - it is one of the few things I really treasure. I was told then that it was designed by Tapio Wirkkala, but it doesn't appear among the many pictures of his work on Google images, so I can't say it was his with certainty. It is a very simple and functional design, perfectly proportioned, quite delicate, and made in a beautiful yellow glass that almost glows. It is as far as could be imagined from his Iittala glass, some of which we have, and which I don't especially like. It was a gift to my parents when I was a student and ended up back with me, along with a Caithness glass vase that I love almost as much. I like glass.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    Yes, a painting of a woman with grey hair, and a rainbow colored dress, seeming to be dancing. She looked just like my first childhood image of what I thought the Holy Spirit looked like. It amazed me when I saw it, as I felt as though I recognized her. It was not for sale, but I did take a picture of her.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    A painting I still mourn was an oil simply of four ordinary, slightly chipped, ceramic bowls such as you might have in your kitchen. To have bought it at the time would have taken most of my life savings. I wish I had, though.

  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I do when I go to art galleries - there will be some pieces I am totally drawn to and look at for some time. I like to go to the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery when I'm in London, and it's impossible to take in all the art, so I just wander around and follow what I'm drawn to. I have favourites I always look at, and I also find new favourites each time. And I like going to see exhibitions, sometimes of local artists, sometimes of students, sometimes competitions where I have to find a favourite to vote for. I usually find a piece that draws me in and I like to look at it in detail. But I don't ever feel the desire to possess an artwork. I don't know why. I have never liked pictures on my walls.
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    I was lucky enough to visit the Uffizi in Florence where they have a smallish room with only Boticellis. I had no idea that the Birth of Venus was almost life-size. I think I actually stopped breathing because of its overwhelming beauty.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    I have my dad's art work on my walls.
    And one of mine (It's big!) - https://photos.app.goo.gl/FVDYzKDssZYVdduF9

    I've never bought a piece of art before, except as cards.

    I'm hoping to persuade my son (he's an airline captain, so plenty of money) to buy it as an investment. To hang in my house until I get over my obsession - then in his house.

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    We're pretty well pictured-up in terms of available wall space. Of the 10 pictures in this room, two were inherited, seven were purchased and one - the Greyabbey pastel was from my brother, who owed me a lot of money, but I'd rather have art I can enjoy than another 0 or so on the bank balance.

    One ought to buy from living artists if you can.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Not really a piece of art but a postcard we had when I was a child - one of those sepia ones, of a road in the snow with very thick snow on very thick hedges. I remember it clearly because it was of nowhere I knew but I had the strong feeling I'd been there. Once I said so to my father and he looked at me slightly strangely and said, "That's why I bought it - because I felt I'd been there." Every so often I'd find it and look at it, always with the same feeling. My dad and I didn't speak of it again, and I daresay it got discarded in one of the big sort-outs that happened before we finally cleared the house as I didn't find it then. I'd really like to have it still.
  • A Feminine ForceA Feminine Force Shipmate
    At the risk of sounding arrogant, I love everything I've ever done art-wise and painting-wise. I am so lucky to still have so many of my own works to look at.

    The secret of being an artist was taught to me quite early - hang something you like and are proud of where you can see it daily. Eventually you will see it through different eyes and decide to something different or improve on something already created.

    I have done this with all my art and some pieces have grown on me so well I would never sell them. And as much as I would love to be a famous artist with works hanging in private and public collections everywhere, I really think that what I create is for myself. And that's enough for me.

    In case anyone is curious some are here. https://imgur.com/user/sirpizzwizz/posts

    AFF
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    They are fabulous AFF. No arrogance - just the truth.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    My son saw the work of art today. He loves it too. He's buying it and it will hang in our house.

    I'm beyond thrilled!

  • A Feminine ForceA Feminine Force Shipmate
    edited July 8
    Boogie wrote: »
    My son saw the work of art today. He loves it too. He's buying it and it will hang in our house.

    I'm beyond thrilled!

    Congratulations!! It's a beautiful piece deserving of an appreciative home!!

    So happy for you and son.

    And thank you for your kind words. They mean a lot.

    AFF
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    edited July 9
    It now has my name on it, to be delivered soon - the one we saw in the gallery.

    I've yet to tell Mr Boogs. He's away in Germany. 🙂
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    We'd never had much art in our home, one large Monet print for most of our life in this city. We moved house in 2018 and since then I've fallen in love with a few pieces of art that we've been able to purchase locally at reasonable prices.

    Just about all the pieces are landscapes painted locally and mostly watercolours. There is one local lady artist who is now quite elderly and I'm thrilled to have a couple of miniatures and a larger piece by her and a couple of watercolours by artists from our home town. All have come from the local auction house that we frequent occasionally.

    Late last year I picked up some framed postcards from an outback town of my childhood. Pen and ink sketches of local historic buildings, courthouse, church, post office, a couple of pubs which I bought for a song and a friend reframed for us. Having all these pieces which reflect places we live and the memories that go with them are very special
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