Reproductions or original art?

[Syt]

Ever notice how hand job and nose job mean two completely different concepts?

[Eddie Teach]

If nothing else, doing it this way means you're supporting living, breathing artists, and not just the talentless heirs of long-dead artists.

I'd guess most of the artists I like are in the public domain by now.

[The Brain]

Some of my favorites on my walls are a couple of Japanese woodcuts by Hiroshige, modern made using the old techniques.

[Warspite]

If you have the cash to afford original art, buy it. Your patronage can make a real difference to a young artist and keep them in the game. You may not be able to afford an established name - only oligarchs can these days - but that doesn't mean you can't find exciting original pieces to your taste.

[Savonarola]

Some of my favorites on my walls are a couple of Japanese woodcuts by Hiroshige, modern made using the old techniques.

That's cool.  Did they use his original blocks, or were the woodcuts a reproduction?

[The Brain]

Some of my favorites on my walls are a couple of Japanese woodcuts by Hiroshige, modern made using the old techniques.

That's cool.  Did they use his original blocks, or were the woodcuts a reproduction?

I'm pretty sure it's reproduction woodcuts. I don't have the documentation at hand right now.

[dps]

If you have the cash to afford original art, buy it. Your patronage can make a real difference to a young artist and keep them in the game. You may not be able to afford an established name - only oligarchs can these days - but that doesn't mean you can't find exciting original pieces to your taste.

There's nothing wrong with Warspite's advice, but the most important thing is to buy something you like, whether it's an original or a reproduction.  You're going to be the one who spends the most time looking at it.

[Savonarola]

I'm pretty sure it's reproduction woodcuts. I don't have the documentation at hand right now.

That's still cool.  I've got a couple woodcuts from the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century and a contemporary one.

[Martinus]

If you have the cash to afford original art, buy it. Your patronage can make a real difference to a young artist and keep them in the game. You may not be able to afford an established name - only oligarchs can these days - but that doesn't mean you can't find exciting original pieces to your taste.

There's nothing wrong with Warspite's advice, but the most important thing is to buy something you like, whether it's an original or a reproduction.  You're going to be the one who spends the most time looking at it.

Yeah. My problem with original "young" art is that I tried looking for something I like and I hate most of it. It seems Polish young artists' favourite style these days is "vomit paint on canvas" - I like stylised surrealist art like that of Dali or William Blake and that just does not seem to be the style de jour.

[Martinus]

On top of that, I find that the subject of the work of art is as important to me as whether it is pleasing visually - so I am not just satisfied with, say, a picture of a duck or a tree even if I like it esthetically - it should concern a topic that is of interest to me. That makes finding an affordable original piece of art very difficult.

[Valmy]

Certainly there are artists doing some retro stuff, right? We still have landscape painters for Godsake and those stopped being interesting to the artistic community in 1850 or so.

[Eddie Teach]

We still have landscape painters for Godsake and those stopped being interesting to the artistic community in 1850 or so.

Eh? Majority of Dali's paintings are landscapes.

[Monoriu]

I just find this thread surreal.  I mean, I know languish as a whole is rich and Martinus is super rich.  But talking about buying original art is just...in the stratosphere.  I have no idea how much art costs, but I presume lots and lots and lots of zeros are involved 

[Valmy]

I just find this thread surreal.  I mean, I know languish as a whole is rich and Martinus is super rich.  But talking about buying original art is just...in the stratosphere.  I have no idea how much art costs, but I presume lots and lots and lots of zeros are involved 

You go to an art fair and pay a few hundred bucks or so. Artists are starving for a reason.

[Syt]

You can get works from unknown local artists easily in the low triple digits here.