Art by the Masters and Creativity
Let’s explore the contribution of Art and Creativity to childhood and consider the role of our homes as galleries. The Sale Bins at the National Art Galleries and Modern Museums of Art have always held immense attraction to me. Why? Because for around $5 I have been able to purchase a Picasso!
I have used a professional framing studio to frame my prints for hanging on the walls of my house. With a meagre budget, my first prints were block mounted and later I had the prints matt laminated and framed. I preferred to frame the prints without glass because if soccer balls were to ever ‘accidently’ get kicked in the house I would not need to replace the glass. As art was hung in the bathrooms, the laminated prints could manage the steam and wet conditions without damage. Without glass, the framed art was very light to carry and easy to mount on the wall.
During Art conversations at school, my children could effortlessly rattle off the names of several of the great Art Masters and could identify their styles of painting because they lived in a house with Art. Looking at art was a daily occurrence because it was there on the walls, on all the walls.
A few years ago, my son and his partner built their first house and took several of the prints with them to hang on the walls of their new home. Their young friends who visited would comment on the art and the art provoked conversations about childhood, the great masters of the art world and styles of art like abstraction and surrealism.
This over-sized print by Andy Warhol hung in their kitchen. I liked to think Jackie Kennedy, the glamorous former First Lady of America contributed to many late night dinner parties and conversations about food and wine.
