I'm with you on the simple framing. After all my years working in an exhibition space, I learned I'd rather see the art than the frame. I believe all of the art in my house - original or prints - is framed fairly simply because of my professional experience and personal preference.

I keep thinking of the scene from Hannah and her Sisters when Max von Sydow says to the haughty and stupid decorator "I don't make art to go with your couch!" :)

And, tomorrow. I SWEAR I'm going to the PO Tomorrow! I also have a Alice drawing for you. Remember............oh so long ago?

I thought you were "Gardening." :p

I so forgot about the Alice one. Yes! Yes! Mail me some art!


GD . . . 5 different lands/themes for 5 different rooms? Have you decided where to hang these yet?

If we HAD 5 different rooms...

Maybe when we move out of our apartment to a (hopefully) bigger place with enough rooms, we'd "theme" 5 rooms around each. And by "theme" I mean use a complimentary color pallette, no way you'll find a fully themed Frontieland room wherever I live *shudder*.

But for now, we're probably going to hang them together. Our little dining corner seems like it'll be a good place, lots of wall space. It's actually got 2 walls 90 degrees to each other, so we can break the set up instead of bunching all 5 togehter. It's our little classy corner, with a curio cabinet and our growing collection of hangable travel souveniers (plates and tiles from Italy and Mexico respectively). Currently, the area we plan on using is covered in family photos and our big wedding portrait. The portrait will probably move into the back bedroom and the family photos to the hallway.

After all that description we're required to post pics of the finished set up, eventually. :D

Yes, but sometimes the right frame makes a world of difference. For instance, the Fantasyland and Mainstreet prints I was always kinda luke warm on, especially Fantasyland. I don't know why, they just didn't grab me the way the other 3 do. Not that I dislike them, but they were a distant 4th and 5th. We bought them only because it seemed silly not to have the whole set.

Now that they're in their frames, though, I love them. For some reason, the frames just give it the right character for me to actually appreciate them.

I guess that's the difference between decoration and art. And, doing something fun with a $15 print is cool and decorative. If these were originals, I'd feel differently, I suppose. Still, mine are going in the same simple black frames that the rest of the "gallery" is framed in.

Whether you paid $15 for the print or $10,000 for the original, you're still getting the same work of art.

I love Shag, and since we used his work as inspiration for this board, his stuff means so much more. To have a work of his on our wall, representing our love for Disneyland, plus giving it a proper themed treatment...it's awesome. :cheers:

Ummmm, no. Not by a long shot.

:(

I guess you have to spend ridiculous sums of money to have art, even though it looks exactly the same. Silly me, attempting to put something nice in my house.

Thanks. :(

I think that is where the art/decoration thing comes in. with originals, you can see layers, brush strokes, etc... From a distance one gets the same effect, but they are worlds apart. I have seen prints of Van Goghs "Sunflowers" but it did not do it justice, I realized, when I was standing with my nose 6 inches from the original.


That is not to take away from what you did, just a opinion. (and you know what those are like)