Many years ago, a client introduced me to one of her dearest friends who was a gallery owner and art collector. This lovely women shared her vision for collecting and displaying art in the home. Hopefully my client is reading this today and will appreciate the impact she’s made on me. Until that day, as an Interior Designer, I viewed art as an accessory. It was something to put on the walls. Something with the appropriate color, scale, style of the space being decorated. That’s all great, but the way art was presented to me that day, forever changed the way I view it and the way I feel it should be selected for the space. Humor me for a moment while I explain?
Art, she said, should always be a personal selection and mean something to the owner. It should remind us of something or someone that inspires (or inspired) us. It need not be a literal interpretation, but more of representation. One of the lovely stories she shared was of a particular piece in my client’s home. From a distance the piece was pretty to look at, but simple. If you stood quite close to it, the beauty truly came out. For my client, this piece represented the lovely women who had been her mother in law. Someone quite pretty on the outside, but even more beautiful if you knew her well. THAT is what art should be in your home.
As you select items for your home, whether they are a canvas selected from a starving artist, a poster print from a local retailer or an original piece of art, the art should “move” you. You should see something in it that keeps you staring. This piece below is from a gallery I visited recently. I loved this piece in person. It’s an enormous canvas…8-10′ tall, I believe. The texture of the paint is incredible. The picture here is decent, but the painting in person? Incredible. To me. And while it doesn’t match much of the art in my home, it’s not about matching, it’s about enjoying!
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Next time you have opportunity, visit a gallery, tour your local museum or just tour the art section of your local Home Goods, but do it with a fresh eye. Maybe for the Weekend???
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Live in the Los Angeles Area? Visit the solo showing of this artist on March 15th.
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View this awe inspiring modern art and meet the artist at his personal
studio in Culver City.
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 Artists from top graphic and links to their art:Bridge Over Troubled Water – Stephen Mitchell, photographer
Everlasting – Hessam Abrishami, painter
Blossoming Almond Tree – Vincent Van Gogh, painter
Vistas al Hoyo – Didier Lourenco, painter
Peonies in Jar – Evan Wilson, painter
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