Is that a Picasso on your wall? A Van Gogh? Or a cool kid's reproduction of a Kandinsky..? A rare find from a garage sale?
We, enthusiastic collectors of old records, think the sleeves of those old records are true pieces of art. We have a couple of frames, with regularly changing sleeves in them. For instance:
We spend quite a lot of time on theming and wallpapers here in AF. For our divices, that is. But how about real life? What IS on YOUR living room walls? What's hanging there?
Nothing. I have nothing hanging anywhere. I've been here for 2 years and have hung NOTHING yet. Oh dear. I should get moving and unpack my pictures. I did get a great jellyfish picture I took a while back blown up but haven't gotten around to having it framed yet. Yeah, my walls are bare. Thanks for reminding me that I suck at decorating.
I was in charge of getting all the building work done after we moved, the missus was in charge of pretty-fying. Let's just say, she's taking her own sweet time. Not helped by the fact that every time I suggest going to look at pictures, she finds something else she'd rather be doing. Like sleeping
The family room has four framed prints of Van Gogh's sketches of the seasons (bought in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.)
There are two more but i was too lazy to photograph them
I also recently bought a watercolor of the Philadelphia Art Museum but have yet to frame it.
The Kitchen has a poster with a panoramic view of Vienna
The Foyer has a poster from a Mark Rothko exhibit at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and a reproduction of Rogier van der Weyden's St. George Slaying the Dragon.
The small frame to the left is a copper stamping art project my son did in grade school. It's actually quite good.
The Living Room has a reproduction of Monet's Argenteuil: 1872 and a Portrait of your's truly at an early age painted by my mother.
There are also paintings of my two brothers that hung in my mother's house until she passed. We each have our own now.
The Dining Room besides a wall dedicated to family photographs, a reproduction of John Singer Sargent's "In the Luxembourg Gardens," 1879.
The Powder Room has a panoramic photograph I took of Blue Marsh Lake in autumn.
Upstairs in the common area is an original oil by realist James Eddie I purchased for the Mrs. on her 40th birthday. Framed ecclesiastical needlework done by my grandmother for the Episcopal Church. Also another Van Gogh (I like Van Gogh ... us lunatics stick together) and a Portrait of my mother done by one of her art school classmates. We found this in her things after she died. I had never seen it before that.
My studio contains ... wait for it ... my own art (NSFW)
The Bedroom has another Monet and a Mary Cassatt reproduction (Yes, my wife love the impressionists and Jane Austin ... welcome to my hell )
My Office has a drawing I did in art school and a framed rock. No, really. I framed a rock (sorry no picture). I don't remember why, but I did and I like it.
Finally, the basement is where I moved my aerial photograph wall of the area where I live ... it's 7' x 10'.
A clock, a nicknack candle light fixture, my daughter's senior portrait, the Lord's prayer printed on a ceramic cross, a ceramic fairy thermometer, another clock, and
a family photo with all of my husbands family in it (taken about 10 years ago).
Those are all of the items on the dining and living room walls.
Now if we are talkng the ceiling....some cobwebs that require one of those swiffer sweepers.
You do know that I'm in China? And so opinions will vary between the PRC and the United States.
Genghis Kahn is actually the good guy here in Xilinhot. Inner Mongolia. See him everywhere. Although the local Han Chinese population are not so keen on him. One of the reasons why they built a Great Wall, to keep out the Mongol Horde.
Laughin' Liz was actually my idea. Because when I put her up, I was trying to think. What is the most recognisable face of the UK? No one here really knows or recognises David Cameron, and we haven't got Barack Obama, because I'm not American.
This is in our living room/schoolroom. The idea is the meeting of three cultures/countries, China, Mongolia and the United Kingdom.
Yeah .. tough one in China. I dated a girl from Shanghai about 15 years ago and had to explain to her who Elvis and the Beatles were .. She also claimed to have never heard of the Cultural Revolution - she was just young enough not to remember.
He's still regarded as the founder of the PRC, and he's on every banknote. Plus the large portrait is still hanging in Tiananmen Square. Maybe because that's what the tourists expect to see? Many of the Chinese classrooms in my school have his portrait as well, along with Zhou Enlai.
I guess, if you're Mongolian, he was a high point .. not so much for the rest of Asia, eastern Europe etc
Go figure
Fixed that for you
Yeah .. tough one in China. I dated a girl from Shanghai about 15 years ago and had to explain to her who Elvis and the Beatles were .. She also claimed to have never heard of the Cultural Revolution - she was just young enough not to remember.
The Cultural Revolution is just not in the school textbooks, however Nixon's visit to China in 1972 is. During that time, things like the Beatles and rock'n'roll, it just wasn't happening. You wore your blue four pocket suit and waved your little red book. Now they know all about rock and pop, and fashions etc. Some people still wear Mao suits and can still buy them.
There's still traces of the Cultural Revolution around though, even today. All the primary schools play "The East Is Red" at 6am in the morning from loudspeakers. Beijing Railway Station plays it every hour. All primary school students have to wear a red scarf.
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