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This Instagram Page Showcases The Contrast Between Great Art And Ugly Rooms (35 Posts)
Exhibiting art is like another form of art in and of itself. But while we're used to seeing famous works tucked in safely at museums and galleries, there are more ways we can experience them. For example, through the project 'Great Art in Ugly Rooms.'
The brainchild of Paul Kremer, it juxtaposes renowned masterpieces against unconventional and unexpected settings, like an abandoned villa or a budget home gym, challenging the conventional notion of art display.
Not to mention the space it offers for discussions on the elitism associated with the scene, showcasing how an unpretentious environment can provide a fresh perspective on art appreciation. Or would it diminish the value of the piece instead?
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Cecile Desjardins 2 years ago
This is not an uglynroom. Its a magnificent room in an abandoned house that been left dilapidated
Bryan rivera 2 years ago
This feels like is supposed to be a commendation of excess wealth and the decay of society lol
Moosashi 2 years ago
The real Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is safe. BP readers get trolled too easily
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EarthGrowl 2 years ago
What she was doing during the time she was stolen! The main reason she is famous is because she was stolen.
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
Apparently that's not a basement... I thought it was a basement too. Us suburban and rural people. Everything we see is less than 40 years old.
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Yes, but it's in an ugly room, which is more to the point.
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Ruby Begonia 2 years ago
I don't think a painting's colors should necessarily match its environment.
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BC 2 years ago
I know this thread is taking the mick a bit, but I think it’s a bit condescending to say, “you can or can’t put an artwork in a particular space”. I like that a lot of these are grungy. Anybody should be able to appreciate beautiful things.
Rhys Ford 2 years ago
No, I agree with you. It feels like this article is saying people shouldn't have something that brings them joy in places they have to be in.
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
The people in the boat are playing with the minnows, but it looks like the minnows are winning.
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
I don't like stuff like this. It feels soulless to me. Abstract art should still speak, sing, cry, scream. This just hangs there.
Yoyo 2 years ago
Nothing. Not everything is supposed to look like something.
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
I don't want him watching me pee. Bouche and Audi take care of that for me.
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trollingergirl 2 years ago
I'd rather be in the picture. (Norman Rockwell: Freedom from Want, 1942)
Evan not Hansen 2 years ago
TBH I think I'd be fine with it if the orientation of the table in the painting lined up with the table in the room. Like if it were at the head or foot, and the continuation of the painting just led to the board room table, it would bug me a lot less.
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
Maybe for the company pizza party that's taking the place of three years' worth of raises (but you can only have one piece).
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trollingergirl 2 years ago
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. I love the picture. Nice corelation.
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
If you just glance over there, it looks like a large white dog.
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Constanze Mühlau 2 years ago
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Bal du moulin de la Galette” painted 1876.
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soulless duck (she/her) 2 years ago
If I encountered that thing at night I'd be scared witless
Kappy Pfeiffer 2 years ago
Clever placement of a sculpture by the wonderful Alberto Giacometti, who once said, "If I were caught in a fire, and had to choose between saving a cat and saving a Rembrandt, I’d save the cat. And then I’d let it go free. Between art and life, I choose life."
trollingergirl 2 years ago
Alberto Giacometti doesn't scare me. Only the prices for originals, these are scary.
Sue Lynn Chan 2 years ago
Yeah no. nononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono
Slarty Bartfast 2 years ago
It seems to be guarding the door behind it! That door opens into that hallway, so you would need to move the statue to gain access to the room behind it. So someone may have a big secret there. Maybe the soul of the damned, that is represented by the sculpture is locked away in there, never to be disturbed or released. - Sorry! Morbid imagination overdrive!! 😁
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
There’s a tapestry of this in a large room in the UN building in NYC. The same room that was used by Colin Powell to announce the invasion of Iraq by the coalition forces. They’d covered up the tapestry with a white sheet. Ironic.
Alyn Nunya 2 years ago
I saw a version of this in a Katsu Bar in Cerritos. In the restroom. And they had the gall to turn it into an ad for the restaurant. Pissed me off so much I walked out of there without ordering anything.
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Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
You just know the people sitting in those chairs are resting their heads on that painting.
Constanze Mühlau 2 years ago
Portrait of the Painter's Mother by James Abbott McNeill, painted 1871.
Ruby Begonia 2 years ago
James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted this in 1871 and titled “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1.”
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trollingergirl 2 years ago
Starry night by Vincent van Gogh. Just makes me sing, every time, one of the most wonderful songs of all time, by Don Mc Lean. One is allowed to sing in the bathroom, or not?
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Are you under the impression that you are the only one who knows the works' and the artists' names?
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I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
Why do they have so many rolls of Tp in multiple life stages? This would drive me crazy if it were in my house, never mind the Van Gogh painting right above the toilet?!?
Ruby Begonia 2 years ago
The painting could be iterations of unrolled tubes and randomly rolled out toilet paper squares. Just sayin' .
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
I do not like this painting. I never have. There's just a hint of sinister in there, hiding behind all the blue.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
There were some monsters in that painting. Then the Doctor got rid of them.
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Andy Fletcher 2 years ago
Having seen the real thing, that does it no justice
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Lotekguy 2 years ago
Don't judge until you see how well it matches the couch and rug they've ordered.
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
Now, this one says something. It says (at least to me) comfy blankets and pillows, the smell of sun-dried wash, and everyone piling up together in a pile.
OWL ON A MISSION 2 years ago
Imagine someone downvoting you for your own simple opinion that doesn't hurt anyone? Here, take my upvote!
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rullyman 2 years ago
I'm guessing basement or split level home? Maybe built on a hill with one wall lower hmmm
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I don't think I've ever seen a work of art eclipsed by cheesy surroundings.
Evan not Hansen 2 years ago
It looks like the painting took the window's spot so it had to move up, and now it's awkwardly squished into the ceiling.
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Brigit Sole-March 2 years ago
Cristina's World by Andrew Wyeth - so evocative, though creepy at the same time. Still I always loved the painting.
Ruby Begonia 2 years ago
Play "Twilight Zone" theme. I could never understand why Wyeth was compelled to paint this - what is the expected interpretation ??
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Constanze Mühlau 2 years ago
Egon Schiele, Wally painted 1912. She was his lover at this time.
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Sophie 2 years ago
Wait, did I miss something? When did Leia become an honourary Sith lady?
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Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
Why would she need a tape for that? Looks like she's measuring for new flooring.
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LastButNotLeast 2 years ago
I think the background Is appropriate in colours and stage presence...
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
Absolutely horrible background for this painting, but the painting is excellent.
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
The essence of (classically defined) womanhood. The woman's curves, her stockings hanging to dry, calling out society for reducing women to eye candy, by not giving the figure a head. A protest, because the clothing shapes to the left also bring to mind the head. This is incredibly impressive work.
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soulless duck (she/her) 2 years ago
Ok, but why are bulls and roosters more popular than cows and hens?
rullyman 2 years ago
The subtle inference of power versus submissiveness, and the toxic dream of the harem 🧐 /jk
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
She fell asleep waiting for her clothes to get dry?
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
This one just looks to me like someone cut out a piece of the carpet to frame.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Just as eighties beige and white boring and nondescript as the room it’s in.
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trollingergirl 2 years ago
Orange skin with strawberries. Love this. Anybody know the painter?
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Lyone Fein 2 years ago
These are fantastic photographs! Almost every single one has perfect composition and balance. Most of these paintings are in a setting that references something in the painting itself......lines or a color or a theme. Really great choices!
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
I didn't look at it like that. I saw some art I hadn't seen before, and some of it touched me.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
continued ... We had a family get together at our house a few weeks later and everyone agreed that the display was really nice and MIL would have loved it. THEN one of the BILs comes in with a poster sized "Footprints" poem in a cheesy brass toned plastic frame. He asked me to hang it above the blue & white porcelain. Um, no - that's not going to happen. I was as polite as I could be without hurting his feelings, but that monstrosity ended up out in the auto shop restroom.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I was really close to my former MIL. She requested that when she passed away she be cremated and her remains go to my ex husband. Okay. So after the service I was speaking to the family and my SIL pipes in with her suggestions on an urn. This girl is trailer trash tacky. I told her since it would be in our house I would pick something appropriate. She argued left & right and I finally snapped, "SIL Finger Hut doesn't sell funeral urns, now STFU". I bought a beautiful set of blue & white ware, like 9 pieces, including 2 ginger jars, one of which would house MIL. It didn't look remotely like the "shrine" SIL pictured, mainly because it was a very tasteful display. When FIL passed away she called and asked if she could have the matching urn for him. Hmmm.
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
These are fantastic photographs! Almost every single one has perfect composition and balance. Most of these paintings are in a setting that references something in the painting itself......lines or a color or a theme. Really great choices!
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
I didn't look at it like that. I saw some art I hadn't seen before, and some of it touched me.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
continued ... We had a family get together at our house a few weeks later and everyone agreed that the display was really nice and MIL would have loved it. THEN one of the BILs comes in with a poster sized "Footprints" poem in a cheesy brass toned plastic frame. He asked me to hang it above the blue & white porcelain. Um, no - that's not going to happen. I was as polite as I could be without hurting his feelings, but that monstrosity ended up out in the auto shop restroom.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I was really close to my former MIL. She requested that when she passed away she be cremated and her remains go to my ex husband. Okay. So after the service I was speaking to the family and my SIL pipes in with her suggestions on an urn. This girl is trailer trash tacky. I told her since it would be in our house I would pick something appropriate. She argued left & right and I finally snapped, "SIL Finger Hut doesn't sell funeral urns, now STFU". I bought a beautiful set of blue & white ware, like 9 pieces, including 2 ginger jars, one of which would house MIL. It didn't look remotely like the "shrine" SIL pictured, mainly because it was a very tasteful display. When FIL passed away she called and asked if she could have the matching urn for him. Hmmm.
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