When your partner chooses artwork you can't stand, do you...
Luke Buckle
10 years ago
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a) agree, 'as long as guests can't see it'
b) save it as an IOU for when you want something outrageous
c) smile and say 'I love how we're all different'.
d) do something else - post it in the comments!
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10 years agolast modified: 10 years agoIt seems that most of you found some kind of compromise... I didn't. He loves Japanese art, which is great, and Kabuki portraits. He actually collects them, stalks on-line auction sites to buy old ones, whenever on holiday, we have to find out if there's a Japanese shop around, and all other crazy stuff associated with a serious collector.
The Kabuki portraits scare me. Seriously, it's like there's something evil and malicious about them, like they're out to get me and all I feel looking at them is fear and bad vibes. Their eyes.... seriously the eyes!!!!! They honestly frighten me and no amount of logic ("they are just someone's drawings") can make me get over it.
You can imagine that there was no compromise to be offered here. We tried the 'his office' approach - it meant whenever I went in there I'd be ready to get out. In the end, he agreed to keep them in folders, look and study them and whatever else he does with them and then put them away and not have them displayed in the house. The only one that he has framed and it's in his office is of an actual theatre scene, not a portrait - that's fine, as I can't really distinct their faces and eyes. There's also a black and white photo of this actor - that's harmless and it hangs in his office (or on the floor, in the pix below - unfortunately, I haven't taken photos of his office since we moved in and I'm too lazy to go downstairs to do it now ).
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10 years agolast modified: 10 years agoAnd that's not all, he likes weird photography - about a month ago he bought these photos of mushrooms by Susan Derges (he loves her style). We have several others by her (I especially love the girl with the water drops http://onlinebrowsing.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/susan-derges.html
But seriously .... mushrooms... ... I just put them on the hall going to the guest room. (I actually love them, they have an undefinable eeriness about them, but don't tell him; it's my turn to buy silly stuff and for him to just accept it!).
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10 years agoOne of my favorite photos ( Halloween in the Castro District, SF) is one that DW finds, well, scary. My reply being- it's a Halloween photo. So I get to have it in the living room in October.
While we have lots of common ground in artwork, we both have stuff that one loves and the other hates. Which is why we have areas of our house that are designated his and hers.
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