Should I bin my friend's art?

The fact that it wasn't posted by the OP should have been a clue that it wasn't the painting in question. 🙂

Loving the memory of Reggie Perrin's Grot Shop!

This thread is reminding me of the one from a little while ago, where OP's DSis is a talented artist but she insists on scribbling her name in a huge red scrawl right across the middle of every painting that she does - including the one that OP commissioned and paid her for - thus completely spoiling them all!

Lose it in the move!!!!

I lost a - very very expensive - Christmas wreath in a move once!! Absolutely no idea where it went as I honestly genuinely checked every single corner of the house when I moved. It was a rented house so I know I emptied it then cleaned the entire thing from top to bottom, including the loft.

The danger is that she will offer to redo you a piece though - which might be worse!! Is it that bad though? Is it like Phoebe in Friends art?? 😂

I would burn the bloody thing, it is awful.

I wonder if it might be possible to convert it to something like the advertising signs they have in bus shelters? The ones with long triangular rods that turn, so that three different adverts can be regularly shown during the same timespan?!

You'd have to fit it with a pause button, though!

Is your name Penny and your friend is Any?! Sorry 😂😂

I'd either say or was damaged in the move and bin - you can't reuse the frame! Or hang it in a bedroom, show her once after the move and then bin it (still can't keep the frame)

My friend once accepted some art after a favour she did for an acquaintance. She didn’t like it but took it to be polite. Quite a large painting of someone smoking. That acquaintance turned out to be Damian Hurst.

Hang on to this shit art folks. You never know what could happen and you might have a valuable ‘original’ on your hands!

Ooh, that was really callous of them - not just to do that, but to actually tell you what they'd done.

It's difficult, because a lot of talented artists do give artwork as gifts to very grateful recipients who truly love it. Maybe it takes a little careful 'homework' and tactful questions/comments beforehand, to see how keen they would be?

It wasn't personal art, but our parents got some lovely framed large canvas blow-up photos for my DSis and me when we were children.

It was a very kind idea, but I so wish they hadn't chosen the photo of me that they did, as (unknown to them), it represented a very unhappy part of my life at that time; the same for my DSis too, as we later realised.

You need to end this now.
You risk being given this 'art' forever!
Do not hang the art anywhere.
Do not encourage your friend.
Give to charity rather than bin it.
If you do hang it in your house you are encouraging your friend and they will think it is fine to keep on giving you their 'art' as you must obviously like it to be displaying it!
You know what you have to do.
Good luck!

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The fictional characters on the TV show that it featured in as a plotline for exactly that.

I am aware it's a joke, but still ask who would hang it in their home?

I agree. I've only given them to those who want it. They're happy looking at them. The finished art is definitely not for my benefit. I do enjoy painting though it's relaxing. I haven't done any for ages.

You haven't seen the painting, it was a joke by another poster.

The Big Bang Theory.

Just seen the painting, it's ghastly at best and creepy at worst. Who on earth would want it hanging on any wall in their home??

Yes, but the craft item or painting is only going to make anyone happy if it’s something they really wanted in the first place. Or else you know absolutely 100% that they’d really like it.
Otherwise it’ll be a case of an internal, ‘Oh, shit…’ - while glueing a plastic smile on.

I am in a similar situation..... I just put it in a cupboard out of sight and take it out when they visit. I find buying or gifting art to somebody else really odd and a bit inconsiderate anyway. Art is such a subjective and personal thing, so choosing a piece is usually a well considered process based on what appeals to us specifically. Second guessing what a friend or family member would like to hang on their wall is presumptuous.

I’m also reminded of the Reginald Perrin series. Where after losing his job he opened a shop selling among other things the dreadful paintings of his dentist and osteopath and his son in law’s terrible home made wine, and ending up with a huge national chain with the USP “gifts for people you don’t like”.

I am astonished by people here. They didn’t notice that it was not the OP that posted the picture. And then have ignored the multiple explanations!

Let me get this straight - you're seriously considering throwing out the painting but keeping the frame?! You got a Rembrandt up in the attic that would go nicely with it?

Legally, your exposure to liability from destroying the painting is low (and can be reduced to zero by ensuring that, if you do destroy it, you do so privately and do not post a video of the act of destruction online).

So it's basically down to your own ethics.

What would happen if you tried to give the painting back? Because if you really can't stand it, but feel guilty about sticking it through a shredder, that is an option. Say that you really appreciate the work that's gone into it, but it doesn't fit with the aesthetic you're trying to create.

If you can't face that then your choice is to keep the painting and hang it whenever your friend visits; pray to your preferred deity that the removal team will damage the painting during the move; or slip said removal team a tenner and make sure it happens.

Yeah... don't bin it. Does anyone you know like it so you can gift it? Or just donate to oxfam or smth
As for her, you can always say it got lost in the moving process along with some other precious items. Just an unlucky batch 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think it happened in Frasier too. Or maybe I'm thinking of the time he got done by an art fraudster.

some people hang art inside their dull cupboards. You might have a fright everytime you open it. Say it gave you nightmares but you didn’t want to get rid of it so it’s hanging in your cupboard

What’s the other sitcom?