The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69558   Message #1182315
Posted By: Rapparee
10-May-04 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Artsy or Fartsy?
Subject: RE: BS: Artsy or Fartsy?
Well....

When we get the living room wall painted (it had an AWFUL wallpaper mural on it), we'll start hanging our art works. Our taste is eclectic, as everyone's should be.

We have several smaller Navajo rugs (originals, purchased from coops where the weavers get most of the money, not the dealers).

Some "soft sculptures".

A repro of paintings from Altimira cave.

A photo I took years ago of the Cliffs of Moher -- printed from a slide onto canvas board and then framed.

Various posters which, over the years, have tickled our fancies.

Family photos (of course).

Quilts. Quilts of various sizes (and completenesses).

Some not-very-good paintings I did years ago.

A matted and framed copy of Norman Rockwell's game of marbles -- the one of two boys and a girl.

An original oil of the Crucifixion, done by a late friend.

"Beauty is its own excuse for being." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty/This is all you know and all you need to know." -- John Keats

"What is Truth?" -- Pontius Pilate.

"I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." -- Potter Stewart.