What is the most favorite piece of art work you have?

[*Lazer*]

I was stuck inside yesterday due to the incessant rain and started looking around at the things in my living room. I was thinking after all the years I have owned it I still get a lift when I look at a picture my grandfather took of his rock garden. We built it together and it was something that brightened my life at it's darkest time. Everytime I look at it I smile and think of that dear man. How bout you guys? What makes you grin when you look at it?

 

[alexander tzara]

There's a painting by a little-known mid-western artist sitting above my fireplace that makes me feel good whenever I look at it.

 

[Siren]

I bet I know who that artist is Alex

 

[alexander tzara]

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I assume you're referring to "fine art" like a painting or a sculpture, but I'd have to say two pieces of paper I wrote at age 18, the beginning of my novel, two pages which inspired me to continue writing. I still have the two pages, badly hammered out of my father's old typewriter, the sentences all caps because I hated using the Shift Key.

But, if I have to pick an object d'art, I'd say any of the art works created by my kids. Don't laugh, but my refigerator door is a museum of modern art.

 

[thumbs2_ca]

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[lobito]

ummm....

Dogs playing poker, yeah that's it!

naw, really it's the fridge art from my neice as has already been pointed out. Or the computer art that my nephew creates when he's over here.

 

[Gaucho]

But, if I have to pick an object d'art, I'd say any of the art works created by my kids. Don't laugh, but my refigerator door is a museum of modern art.

I would agree. Nothing beats your kid's artwork on the fridge or the kitchen wall.

Unless, of course, it's my framed copy of the front page of the San Diego Union, dated Monday, October 8, 1984, which says:

"Dreams Can Come True! The Padres Win The Pennant!"

 

[*Lazer*]

Go on wid ya Alex. And no DCL it's not a picture of a cow.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I have a free form sculpture on my desk under my monitor that I adore. It is about 8 inches long and no more than 4 inches tall. The wood is pine and is an amalgamation of various shapes, spheres, flat almonds, a large rectangle, a birthday candlesque/mosque shape, a small rectangle, a ring, a flat square. All this wood is held together with generous and dripping helpings of green glue.

Somedays it looks like a boat, other days it looks like a space ship bound for some distant galaxy, today it looks like a city one might find on the moon. My son made it for me at daycare when he was 3. Nothing in the Louve would ever match its pricelessness.

 

[Valdimer]

Artwork can be any form right? Not just drawings and photographs, and such.....


If that is the case, then it would have to be the music I personally write. Everytime I read them, I remember what was going through my mind at the time, and why I wrote it. Kinda like a snap to the past, if you get the meaning.

Song writing is kinda like poetry, and poetry is an artform......I think, lol......I dunno, I just woke up,

 

[Harbinger]

Kid art is the best

I'm an artist by training, so I have a lot of stuff that I've collected and been gifted with, but these are my two all time favs:

The first one was done by my little boy when he was about five. It was intended to be a reference to the Twelve days of Christmas. It depicts a number of women in long red dresses with arms in the air. I really like the energy in the way it is drawn, but the kicker is the caption: "Nine Ninnies Dancing". I laugh every time I look at it.

The other one was done by my daughter. Just a drawing of a paintbrush. It's so simple, but so expressive. It makes me feel calm and contemplative.

A little introspection, a little wild silly dancing.

 

[Always]

well considering that my bedroom has beautiful lavender painted walls - and every single square inch is taken up by posters and such, not to mention the ceiling (the last frontier and quickly dissapearing as well) i'm hard pressed to pick just one.

it would have to be my fuzzy poster (they're these cool black velvet things that come uncolored and you get to do it yourself, they're neat, i've got about two dozen) with the sun and moon in the fire and water colors.. it is soooooo cooool, i love it, it hangs above my bed.. either that or my Utena poster. i wish i could scan it in and post it, it's beautiful.... *sigh*

 

[Always]

Artwork can be any form right? Not just drawings and photographs, and such.....


If that is the case, then it would have to be the music I personally write. Everytime I read them, I remember what was going through my mind at the time, and why I wrote it. Kinda like a snap to the past, if you get the meaning.

Song writing is kinda like poetry, and poetry is an artform......I think, lol......I dunno, I just woke up,

there's a long to a sine - i mean a line to a song! jeez.

"A song becomes a memory of a time in your life"

i can;t listen to Eve6's Inside Out without thinking of doing my hair in front of the mirror with these little red clips - cause that was the first time i ever heard that song. fell in love with it then.

 

[lilfrk]

Mine is a pencil drawing that my man did for me of Patrick Stewart. It hangs in our living room with the ribbon he won for it. I love that picture, I wish he would draw more.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Kid art is the best

I really like the energy in the way it is drawn, but the kicker is the caption: "Nine Ninnies Dancing". I laugh every time I look at it.

And that made ME laugh, for real!

I have no kids of my own, but my refrigerator is full of art work from my nieces. Those are special to me.

 

[Mensa]

I don't know art but I know what I like

I have a painting of Elvis done on blue velvet! It hangs right next to the one with the dogs playing poker.

 

[Merelan]

Nine Ninnies Dancing.... Hahahaha.... Christmas means so much to me now. Can't wait for that song to start. Thanks. Wiping tears from my eyes.

Art? Yes, the stuff my nieces, nephews and young friends make me. Or the Quilted wall hanging that my friend made and had her kids draw on. Sniff... sniff....

Or the photo collages I am addicted to making of friends and family.

From what I read here, we are all a bunch of saps aren't we?

 

[Expertise]

A limited edition (and signed) Catherine Karnes-Munn print of the east side of the Nashwaak River at Marysville showing the cotton mill and row housing and the valley beyond. I love it not only because of its intrinsic beauty but because when i was "away" it always reminded me of home (its where I grew up). Tied for pride of place is my favorite antique duck decoy... I won't go in to detail because Sparky will ream me about it.

 

[*Lazer*]

Speaking of art a friend of mine sent me a video of a song that I adore (mostly cause he sings it). There are some other commentary type videos of him and also a certain chilling tale written by an amazing author when he was about eight years old filled with vampires and sympathy. It has the art work included and yes you are right it makes me grin from ear to ear whenever I look at it.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

A book called a dozen eggs.

My decent photos... one of which is 3' by 2' and being framed as we speak

 

[Starfish]

Old photos are the best. I couldn't even begin there.... so I have to say my favorite peice of art is my perpetually changing, therefore artful, 'Sharp's pygmy' Japanese Maple Bonsai, that is simply amazing. It was all up to nature, until about two years ago, and it is now a tree that stands only 12 inches, and looks about 30 years old. The art that nature creates with the help of man is the really mind blowing kind, in my opinion.

My next favorite has to be the trinket and fridge art. My neices and nephew make sure that we get nice stuff to enjoy. I have a picture collage of all my little friends. Umpa lumpa du...... I shouldn't start that, huh Chef?

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Oompa Loompa doopity doo
I've got another ...

Oh no NOOOOOOO

I mean YES

 

[*Lazer*]

Cheffie you need to let me see your photo...

 

[alexander tzara]

Dracula Risis From The dead

Bwa-ha! You forgot to wear garlic, sweet innocent Lazer. Fancy a cup of seraphim blood in my boudoir?