Found a stunning 1940s Japanese Bakufu Ohno woodblock print for $2.50. It was $5 but was 50% off.
u/Suthernboy1968 — 3 days ago
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Jacaré Açu (Melanosuchus niger) graffiti oc by @alekspunk12/@naturezanaparede
u/alekspunk12 — 3 days ago
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How do you choose art for a place you live?
Hey everyone!!
Full disclosure, I work at an art consultancy that sources and produces artwork for hotels and private clients.
Something I've realized doing this is that choosing art for a hotel or someone's home is nothing like collecting. It's not really "is this a good piece" but rather "does it work in this room." The light, the walls, the view, it all matters.
Curious how collectors here think about it. Do you buy for the piece first and find the space later, or the other way around?
And if anyone is working on a home or hospitality project and wants to talk through ideas feel free to text me, I’d be happy to share what we've learned.
u/2muchsauce1 — 10 days ago
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Those of you who do prints, how do you handle integrating collections into yours?
I get torn because if you buy an old collection, the albums themselves often have historical interest. I hate throwing away someone's perhaps 100 year old work and notes, even if I carefully document everything. (Provenance is its own thing on top of that, let's assume they're anonymous notes for the sake of simplicity.)
On the other hand, a lot of the old materials are just failing at that point, plus might not have been appropriate in the first place (i.e. acidic papers). And, finally, you always want to integrate the works into your own documentation system, storage, etc.
Case in point. Definitely learning towards disassembling the first one, a set of Callot's Les Grandes Misères de la guerre, as it was cheaply made in the first place and there's clearly acidic problems.
This second album is more interesting. More care was taken in presentation and materials, but, on the other hand, it's a random snapshot of what this fellow had. Les Pénitents looks complete, but the Caprices are not, for instance. The rest is similarly disjointed. So I'm not sure, and figured I'd see how other people handle it.
u/kallore — 12 days ago