Personalized oil paintings as decoration

2021-10-08 14:36:25

Commission a desired painting? If I wouldn't paint myself, then I would probably see that less as an option for me. Because: when I see a picture, it has to have IMPACT. It has to please me surprisingly well. I once bought one for 150€ in Berlin, the artist was standing at some market. I still like the picture. Our bathroom picture (posted here before) only cost 30€.
Apart from that, I probably wouldn't spend much more than 200 bucks on wall decoration.
Portraits in the living area: I don't like them. Not above the bed either.

Thanks for the answer! You are right, style is important, it won't help if the picture doesn't move me, and it also has to match the furniture and so on.

2021-10-08 14:47:13

So I find a self-portrait rather "vain". If at all, only in connection with a partner/child/other bipeds or quadrupeds. Oil paintings are personally too "heavy" for me. I prefer drawn or watercolor pictures. I have commissioned such a picture twice (horse family) and am now considering whether our deceased dog should also be painted. The cost would be about €300 in chalk. So quite pricey. But there is also a lot of work behind it. For the watercolor portraits, I paid roughly €70.

2021-10-08 15:22:16

Nude paintings do not belong in the bedroom, and a 40 x 50 benevolent goddess absolutely nowhere. Nude and miniature is a highly cheesy combination.

I have experience with acrylic paintings (1.5x1m). I have three of them. In my old apartment, I also had space for them; in the current one, I don't, or my wife doesn't like them either. I need to see if I can hang one up in the house.

I hope they are the same size so that they can be rotated regularly.

2021-10-08 15:43:05

Every few years there is a picture (collages) of the sister-in-law. Unfortunately, we usually never get the pictures that we like in the exhibition, but one of those that were not sold. :D

I think it is important that the picture matches the room with the furnishings!

2021-10-08 15:46:00

Nude paintings don’t belong in the bedroom, and a 40 x 50 benevolent goddess doesn’t belong anywhere at all. Nude and miniature is a highly kitschy combination.

I hope they are the same size so that they can be rotated regularly.

I’ve seen this exactly three times among friends/acquaintances (meaning nude pictures as self-expression). I was given a tour to admire the new apartment and that included the bedroom. No, I am not prude, but there are things I simply don’t want to know about friends.
It’s probably similar for one’s own children when they realize that their parents do more than just hold hands :p

2021-10-08 16:02:26

No, I am not prudish, but there are things I simply do not want to know about friends.

For one thing, oil paintings are not photographs, so the term "know" would already be out of place, and for another, nude pictures of real contemporaries are even more inappropriate than in small formats, naturally the peak, if they also represent the builders (except of course in your case - the email just arrived - if they were the builders from 1900).

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