Do you have art in your home?

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I'm wondering how many people have art in their home and is it something you care about?

If you do like art on your walls, do you care whether it's an original (i.e. an actual oil painting) or a print/ reproduction of the sort you can get from Dunelm etc?

If you don't like art on your walls, what do you instead? (If anything?)

I only have real stuff on my walls. Not necessarily expensive pieces although I do have one family antique 17th century painting. Most of the rest are pieces done by friends or family, although I picked up some bits on various holidays too.

My favourite piece was done by an art student and was cheapish. But it gives me pleasure every day.

I do , but I have several artist friends who I like to support

Yes. Originals of places that have meaning and some limited run lithos. All have memories attached to them. Also a lovely lalique fish sculpture I inherited which I think was my maternal grandfather's. I also have a rather cool Nefertiti bust which I think came through my father's family. She sits on my chest of drawers in my bedroom and watches over me.

So do I, but they all make sound installations or giant sculptures!

Both my girls did higher Art at school so we have their final folio pieces framed on the living room walls. So unique original pieces really.
A few prints from some shops in toilet etc.

We buy arty things, but across the media. Some textiles, some pottery, glass and a few drawings, paintings, cartoons, maps and prints. None of it is valuable, but we like each item and it tells our story. Places we've been, things we've done, people who've mattered to us.

We are lucky to have a number of auctions locally.
We got one for £40. It was recently valued at £8-10k.
My
DH recently started painting *copying) other people's work. Currently at 2x1 metre Basqiat is dominating our living room.

I've got a Blackadder. Well, DH bought it actually. It is lovely.

We have a mix of original art (some antique, some painted by me) and prints we love, including a mix of vintage and contemporary. Basically whatever we brings us joy. The only 'high street' type is a set of twelve Oka prints which I absolutely adore and which were a recent birthday gift from DH.

@LibertyLily I remember your lovely kitchen and (I think...) turquoise Everhot stove. I bet your art is glorious!

i have my great uncle’s oil artwork on my landing. He was a hobby painter though, not a professional. Some of them are lovely. I also have quite a few prints but mostly older styles as I have a Georgian house. I have a large papyrus in my library that I picked up in Cairo years ago and my DH got framed recently.

We also have a couple of modern items in the living room - they’re not really my style but it’s a modern extension so the antique style stuff wouldn’t suit.

Thank you @SelbourneIdentity! It's still all very much a work in progress here, so it means a lot to receive a lovely compliment 💐

I do, but nearly all of it has been handed down to me through the family. I have bought one or two pieces but the valuable ones are the inherited ones! Oil paintings mostly, some watercolor and some ink, all of countryside scenes and horses; hunt meets, a dog or two, racehorses, even a few of family horses from generations gone by. My favourite is a big oil painting of my grandfather on his favourite hunter, looking all flash and majestic. It’s very special to me. Happily all very in keeping with my own style; they’d not work half so well in a modern, clean-lines, grey new build wonderland as they do in our characterful farmhouse!
My sister and my sister in law are both artists, they do commissions of pets, homes and, in SILs case, people. I’m lucky enough to have a few amazing pieces by each of them

We have maybe one original painting, the rest are prints and photos. I have some themed areas and build up around those (water/animal/urban photos).

We choose what we like. Even if it comes from Dunelm! I don't really like snobbery when it comes to home decoration, if you like it and it calls to you, stick it on the wall!

I have lots of art. Oils, sculpture, mostly originals. I love love love every piece that I have collected over 30 years. I buy art mostly on holidays - so it’s an eclectic collection and highly personal. Most is not especially valuable (less than £5000) one or two are more. Not bought for investment, just because I like them

yes, I have lots of original artwork in my house, but that has nothing to do with the house and everything to do with a) I could afford to buy them (£1 - 2k each), b) they please me and c) they may (or may not) be an "investment"

How do you all feel about Rolf Harris art works? As far as I'm concerned it's still great. Whatever you may feel about him, he has done a lot of good work.

He was an atrocious painter.

His paintings weren't my thing before all his rapes and sexual assaults came to the fore. I'm even less likely to like them after his convictions.

They were terrible artworks all along and only sold for the prices they did because he was famous. You could buy far better for less from a local craft fair.

but that is the whole point of "art"
impressionist = inability to paint straight lines and edges to be picture perfect
abstract = inability to reproduce reality coupled with highly developed pretentiousness when it comes to giving the work a "title"
surrealist = being on an acid trip with a brush in hand
realism = go take a photo instead
pop art = take image out of a 5 pence kids comic and sell it for a fortune because you reversed the colours and now call it "art" instead of a drawing

I don’t see what your Daily Mail ‘my toddler could paint a Rothko’ attitude has to do with Rolf Harris as a painter. Which of your ‘categories’ are you suggesting he fits in?

Yes, I grew up in a house with lots of art, we have quite a lot of prints and some original paintings. My mum was an artists model as a student so there are some small pictures and sculptures around of her. My parents have slightly downsized, so we have inherited some of their stuff, plus my dad buys prints often that he doesn't have room for, so we take some of those. We'll pay up up £500 when feeling flush on something nice.

What boggles me is sometimes I look up for fun super expensive houses in Zoopla etc and so many mega mansions have total crap on the walls, just generic 'photo of Marilyn Monroe' or 'Canvas of a pug dog with rhinestones'. Literally our totally ordinary house has a more valuable art collection than that!

I guess they are probably people's 3rd or 4th house or whatever. But it seems sad to me to have that much money and not want to own art and support artists.

oh for goodness sake, can you not just take a moment to enjoy a bit of light relief
fit him into whichever one you want. Good to know it appears you can read since you feel the need to issue personal insults

I love your definitions @Wot23!