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Marcia Simmons, in internet form

Art, please!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 • • 6 comments

This is a print I have in my apartment, near the cat condo

I am in need of some art, dear readers. I would like something original and striking. Where does one get an art? The only piece I have seen recently that I liked well enough to buy costs $6,500. That is not in my budget. (It has since been sold anyway.)

I have unintentionally ended up with a creepy imbalance in the artwork in my house. First of all, I have a lot of pictures of women by themselves. This is a little jarring considering I haven't had a proper date in two years. (The post wherein I ask for a date is forthcoming. This one is about art.)

Second of all, I have a lot of ironic/semi-ironic retro images. In addition to the one above, I have an incomplete mock-up of an ad featuring a slender fashion-drawing-style woman next to a gigantic floating dish of ice cream with the text of the ad missing; a series of postcards from the '50s advertising California as the land of sunshine; and a Vargas Girl pin-up drawing of a topless woman wearing pearls and inviting you to "bite them to see if they are real."

I would like to add a large painting. A real painting like grown-ups have. I want something wild and colorful. Maybe even cartoony. Where does one purchase such a thing?

(6) Comments

  1. Leona On 4/02/2008 2:20 AM

    Do you want one of them pop art style paintings of a product like soup? Or one of them giant comic book paintings? Man, I would love to have one of the latter.

     
    A Margarita On 4/02/2008 6:56 AM

    Ikea! or www.allposters.com

     
    Joy On 4/02/2008 7:45 AM

    San Francisco. Maybe we should have an art outing. I also want art.

    Here is the artist I like who has a shop in SF I want to visit: http://lisacongdon.typepad.com/my_weblog/

     
    Anonymous On 4/05/2008 12:48 AM

    You live close enough to SFMOMA, that you should go there. It is worth visiting at any time, and has an excellent store with prints of all styles of art.

    Get your mounted professionally and no-one will not know that you do not own a *real* van Gough.

    Hell, there's a great poster shop in Berkeley (Telegraph btwn Dwight and Haste) with an abundant selection that will also mount it (for a fee) in any style you prefer. I hear the cafes there are overflowing with graduate students in need of sugar mommas . . .

     
    Kingdom Graphics On 4/08/2008 9:24 AM

    Well it's a really good thing you know an artist... *grins*.

    Next time we're visiting tell me what you want, the theme, motif, style colors etc and for the cost of supplies plus a nice dinner for me and CurvyGirl and we'll call it done. Then you can spread the good word about Troy Vera, fine artist.

    I work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, anything and everything.

     
    The Pool Guy On 5/27/2008 11:19 AM

    Cartoony reminded me of our local artist, Moses. No! Not that one! Just a guy with a cartoony eye. Here's the link:

    http://www.mosesart.com/