I Am So Over Faux Art...

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.discoverygalleries.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_id=23&category_id=2

Rob Gonsalves. I love his work.

The first one I looked at was interesting. Well executed with a surrealist bent, a unique way of seeing the world, though the emotional content was a little sappy. The second was similarly interesting. By the fifth one I found them trite. The guy appears to have one idea -- things that look like something else actually become that something else.

Yes. So it is. Which is probably why I bought it 15 years ago in my 20's and it's now in one of my kids' rooms. It works for kids. Paid @ 800. Shut up, I like it!

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Anonymous wrote:There was anAmerican- Ethiopean woman artist that was featured in the New Yorker a while back- she made a huge canvas for the Goldman, Sachs lobby entry in Manhattan. Not her exactly, $$$, but love her style of work...

Julie Mehretu and that work cost $5 million. But there are a lot of people paying homage....go to etsy.

Lol. I'm looking for something in between 5 mil and Etsy/Regretsy.

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Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Wolf Kahn, and if I had $10k to buy art, I would buy one of his paintings. (Disclaimer: I think that his paintings look a little garish on the Web - they are way more subtle and not as bright in real life.)

http://wolfkahn.com/

ooh, me too. Had never heard of him before but I really like his work.

Cool, found some of his prints on Amazon.com - off to Ikea I go for frames! Woo hoo.

PP, these are breath-taking! Exactly what I like! Especially the pastels. I can't spend more than 2500 on a single work, though. I really wish I could see these works in person. Random tangent here, but, can you imagine being one of the lucky collectors to have just snapped up a Rothko when he was first painting? I could fall into a Rothko for hours--I know pretentious, horseshit. But I am irrationally obsessed with his works.

You're going to mock me, I do not have $2500 to spend on anything in my house. I bought a Rothko calendar, tore the pics out, framed them in Ikea Ribba frames and hung them in my guest bedroom. Mark Rothko is my #1 all time favorite artist. I know, I know... My preschooler could splash three colors across a square canvas and get the same effect, but I swoon over Rothko. Obvs you've been to the Rothko room downtown?

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Anonymous wrote:Here is who we love:

http://elihalpin.com/home.html

Sweet! I can't tell though if this would be cool or spooky to my horse loving daughter:
http://elihalpin.com/zoom/1400x720/2010002.html

I think it's great but then again, as I said, I love her stuff. We have one very similar to this one over our dining table. Something we would have never thought of buying before but we loved it and went for it and get a lot of comments on it:
http://elihalpin.com/artwork/1275469_7_Koi_in_Greens_and_Aquas.html

The next one I want to buy is one of these:
http://elihalpin.com/artwork/1820265_Giraffe_Family_in_Metallic_Sea_Blue.html

Ok, the giraffes are really cool. Really, really cool.

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Commission a portrait of a loved one for your walls

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OP, have you checked out The Germantown/Gaithersburg Patch "Portrait of an Artist" series? Simply breathtaking work.

http://gaithersburg.patch.com/articles/a-portrait-of-the-artist-deb-cohan?ncid=M255