Hello,
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on commissioning custom decorative paintings.
During the building planning phase, I have already received recommendations and offers to have my portrait or favorite place painted as an oil painting. These works are very high quality and distinctive, but also expensive. However, I would also like to have my own images turned into paintings to hang on the walls, instead of IKEA posters. Therefore, I would like to hear your opinions:
What do you think about this? Does anyone have experience with it?
Best regards,
Yqsquare
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on commissioning custom decorative paintings.
During the building planning phase, I have already received recommendations and offers to have my portrait or favorite place painted as an oil painting. These works are very high quality and distinctive, but also expensive. However, I would also like to have my own images turned into paintings to hang on the walls, instead of IKEA posters. Therefore, I would like to hear your opinions:
What do you think about this? Does anyone have experience with it?
Best regards,
Yqsquare
But the topic was basically about portraits now? And you basically choose the art student based on their style?
I think the era of ancestral galleries is over or has been replaced by photographs to preserve ancestors and family trees.
I once knew someone who had their picture (photo) displayed on the mantelpiece. That was popular in the 1980s – if you had a fireplace, you had your portrait there or next to it. I’m more like @SumsumBiene 🙂 … maybe the soul flatterer for the doubtful?
I think the era of ancestral galleries is over or has been replaced by photographs to preserve ancestors and family trees.
I once knew someone who had their picture (photo) displayed on the mantelpiece. That was popular in the 1980s – if you had a fireplace, you had your portrait there or next to it. I’m more like @SumsumBiene 🙂 … maybe the soul flatterer for the doubtful?
ypg schrieb:
I think the days of ancestral galleries are over... but you can line up virtual ancestors—for example, those of Alfred E. Neumann *ROTFL*https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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HausiKlausi10 Oct 2021 00:00If I were you, I would buy some nice pictures from a professional photographer. There are agencies that offer high-quality prints. Take a look at Magnum. It’s not completely unique, but aesthetically far more appealing than the standard Ikea-style motifs.
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fach1werk10 Oct 2021 08:16I think buying a painting from an art student is a good idea. A size of 40 x 50 cm (16 x 20 inches) and a few hundred euros sounds reasonable and rather affordable than expensive.
I find that format quite small. Still, it has its advantages—you can hang it almost anywhere, which you can’t do with large formats.
I’m surprised by your connection to visual arts: At least one person mentions collages instead of oil paintings; everyone else stays within figurative art. And often, neither a message nor a relation to the buyer, not even strength in expression, is required—decorative art will do.
Anyone who wants to have a painting but does not want or can’t paint it themselves should reflect on what the message should be. Then they should find someone who can sensitively support and visualize that for them. And this should come with a fee that—almost comunistically speaking—can be compared to that of a skilled craftsperson.
Why strip a painting of all its possibilities just because you don’t want to think about what kind of message is important or beneficial to you? At least, if someone hangs a portrait of themselves, they have made a choice—even if I would only recommend that for the inside door of a closet.
Best regards from Gabriele
I find that format quite small. Still, it has its advantages—you can hang it almost anywhere, which you can’t do with large formats.
I’m surprised by your connection to visual arts: At least one person mentions collages instead of oil paintings; everyone else stays within figurative art. And often, neither a message nor a relation to the buyer, not even strength in expression, is required—decorative art will do.
Anyone who wants to have a painting but does not want or can’t paint it themselves should reflect on what the message should be. Then they should find someone who can sensitively support and visualize that for them. And this should come with a fee that—almost comunistically speaking—can be compared to that of a skilled craftsperson.
Why strip a painting of all its possibilities just because you don’t want to think about what kind of message is important or beneficial to you? At least, if someone hangs a portrait of themselves, they have made a choice—even if I would only recommend that for the inside door of a closet.
Best regards from Gabriele
Yqsquare schrieb:
Thanks for the reply. A handmade 40cm by 50cm (16 by 20 inches) painting would cost me a few hundred euros here. The providers are art students at the university in NRW. The price is probably still negotiable. If you are interested, I could ask for you. For me, the question is that I’m not yet sure if I want my own painting. Are you the art student? This thread kind of looks like covert advertising...
Ysop*** schrieb:
Are you the art student? This thread looks like covert advertising..... rather feeling out whether customers are interested in such an offer.