Art - KCSR

69Mach351 · 2014-12-23, 05:04 PM

I was curious since this was a photography and art section, if anyone collects any sort of art. It doesn't have to be expensive, but is there a style, medium, or artist that you like?

Post some pics of what you like, where you tend to look, etc. I will put some up later, but I wanted to get some other ideas, see what others like, and get some other ideas on where to look to see if anything catches my eye.

mild83 · 2014-12-23, 05:26 PM

I'm all over the board. I don't really collect anything, I used to go to the Art Museum 2-3 times a year just to take it in.

I like a lot of stuff Banksy does. I particularly enjoyed the movie that covered his 30 days in NYC. Some folks might not consider it art, but I like it.

JewelsMari · 2014-12-23, 05:30 PM

All over as well. I like the things that make me feel something.

mild83 · 2014-12-23, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by JewelsMari

All over as well. I like the things that make me feel something.

That's a good way to put how I am as well. Most art I like to try to think what the artist was thinking when it was created. I think that public art tends to draw my interest more nowadays than stiff, baroque art. I still have total appreciation for most anything (as I have about zero creativity), but it seems a tad stiff.

69Mach351 · 2014-12-26, 09:39 AM

I am a fan of Salvador Dali - he had his own interpretation of a lot of things...and many of them make me think that he was on something. I am not just talking about the melting clocks, but more of the flaming giraffes and the other strange stuff in a lot of his paintings. Just off the wall stuff that nobody would ever think about.

chaseme · 2014-12-26, 01:32 PM

I mostly buy posters (screen or letterpress). Our office is set up as gallery on first fridays here in the Crossroads, so we get a new "collection" every month to enjoy.

I appreciate a lot of art though, I am mostly intrigued by the actual execution of things, I got enough conceptual-ness at KCAI. Anything Renaissance to me is amazing. Just the scale and depth that you experience when you see them in person.

Caravaggio (Can be seen at the Nelson)

I have a few pieces from these guys.
Hatch Show Print
Hammer Press

And a couple from a friend of mine locally.

steelbluesleepR · 2014-12-26, 03:54 PM

I've got a couple of pieces hanging in my room that I pulled out of a tweaker/squatters crash pad when I shot a film there. They are really weird and cool looking. One is on a 2x3' piece of plywood and one was painted on an old window. I'll get some pictures when I get back to St. Louis.

69Mach351 · 2014-12-27, 08:46 AM

I picked up a few vintage french posters a week or two ago, which are getting framed and have another piece in the mail...nervous as all get out that it makes it in one piece.

I was assured that the posters were in a crush proof tube...one of them got crushed. Just by luck, the tube was about a foot longer than the poster and that is the portion that got smashed.

milanoGSRteg · 2014-12-27, 09:00 AM

Denny Dent is one of my particularly favorite "artists". I am not an art collector, but i do my own oil and acrylic paintings. Just getting into 3d style painting as well as stenciling.

steelbluesleepR · 2015-01-04, 02:51 AM

Crack head art!

2015-01-04_01-48-25 by Jcareyphoto, on Flickr

2015-01-04_01-47-35 by Jcareyphoto, on Flickr

dylanjacobus · 2015-01-04, 10:46 AM

I tend to collect screen print art, mostly in the smaller sizes like 8x10 and 11x14.

JewelsMari · 2015-01-08, 02:50 PM

Part of me wants to get my own place, just so I can hang up whatever Art I want on the walls. I'm not quite ready to give up saying I'm going back to KC eventually though. I'll probably wait about 4 years to make that decision if I don't go back next year. I have been thinking about getting a cheaper easel (my expensive one is at my parents house in KS), setting it up in the garage, and taking up painting, even though I mostly did photography and charcoal in high school and post.

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69Mach351 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NE KS Posts: 8,476 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 262 Thanks (Received): 234 Likes (Given): 1795 Likes (Received): 1701 Dislikes (Given): 37 Dislikes (Received): 44	Art I was curious since this was a photography and art section, if anyone collects any sort of art. It doesn't have to be expensive, but is there a style, medium, or artist that you like? Post some pics of what you like, where you tend to look, etc. I will put some up later, but I wanted to get some other ideas, see what others like, and get some other ideas on where to look to see if anything catches my eye.

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milanoGSRteg Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Kansas City Posts: 4,158 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 124 Thanks (Received): 111 Likes (Given): 1274 Likes (Received): 577 Dislikes (Given): 216 Dislikes (Received): 272	Denny Dent is one of my particularly favorite "artists". I am not an art collector, but i do my own oil and acrylic paintings. Just getting into 3d style painting as well as stenciling. __________________ Noli Me Tangere

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JewelsMari Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 2,227 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 133 Thanks (Received): 34 Likes (Given): 711 Likes (Received): 284 Dislikes (Given): 4 Dislikes (Received): 2	Part of me wants to get my own place, just so I can hang up whatever Art I want on the walls. I'm not quite ready to give up saying I'm going back to KC eventually though. I'll probably wait about 4 years to make that decision if I don't go back next year. I have been thinking about getting a cheaper easel (my expensive one is at my parents house in KS), setting it up in the garage, and taking up painting, even though I mostly did photography and charcoal in high school and post. __________________ Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ~ Calvin (and Hobbes)

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69Mach351 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NE KS Posts: 8,476 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 262 Thanks (Received): 234 Likes (Given): 1795 Likes (Received): 1701 Dislikes (Given): 37 Dislikes (Received): 44	I am a fan of Salvador Dali - he had his own interpretation of a lot of things...and many of them make me think that he was on something. I am not just talking about the melting clocks, but more of the flaming giraffes and the other strange stuff in a lot of his paintings. Just off the wall stuff that nobody would ever think about.

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69Mach351 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NE KS Posts: 8,476 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 262 Thanks (Received): 234 Likes (Given): 1795 Likes (Received): 1701 Dislikes (Given): 37 Dislikes (Received): 44	I picked up a few vintage french posters a week or two ago, which are getting framed and have another piece in the mail...nervous as all get out that it makes it in one piece. I was assured that the posters were in a crush proof tube...one of them got crushed. Just by luck, the tube was about a foot longer than the poster and that is the portion that got smashed.