elizabethprata posted: " By Elizabeth Prata I said last time (in June already!) that I'd continue my art series with a glass piece. I decided to do an 'art in the bathroom' essay first. I watch Nick Lewis, a designer whose videos on Youtube explain design trends, he also will" http://elizabethprata.wordpress.com
I said last time (in June already!) that I'd continue my art series with a glass piece. I decided to do an 'art in the bathroom' essay first. I watch Nick Lewis, a designer whose videos on Youtube explain design trends, he also will critique your own room if you send him photos. He said in an offhand remark recently that he likes it when there's art in the bathroom. (I tried to recoup that comment from recent vids but I could not find it).
Growing up, there was always art in our bathrooms. OK, at one point the art in the bathroom was a poster of Mark Spitz that my mother had put behind the door, but mainly, I appreciated that there was art all over the house. My father enjoyed one of those of fashioned gold gilt maps, which I liked too. Later, there was Toulouse Lautrec, which I did not enjoy but did appreciate looking at them to figure out why. We also had a piece by Ogata Kōrin, a Japanese painter who painted "Cranes" in 1710. I am also not a fan of Japanese works, but I appreciated the graceful beauty of this grouping of 9 cranes with an impressionistic river bend behind them, on gold.
Living room, circa 1978-1980
Thirty years later it is still hanging in her living room, a different living room by then, but still part of a personal gallery.
You can see the living room had beautiful antiques and much art, and there was more on the other wall too. Lots to look at. So I looked. And art seeped into me and now I can't live without it.
Even in the bathroom.
In my personal bathroom I have two watercolors, framed but no glass. They are Winslow Homer watercolors. One is a clip from a larger work, "Nor'easter", I believe. The other I can't find the title of. I like Homer's watercolors. I have another larger one in the living room, "Hurricane, Bahamas".
The word gabinetto in Italian is toilet. So this piece cracks me up. Who would make an art piece with just the word toilet? If course I put it in the bathroom. The word sounds fancy when it's in Italian.
In my other bathroom I have three pieces, grouped. One is a limited edition depicting a sweet little scene by Ohio artist Barbara A. Wood titled "First Love". The red birds are White Winged Crossbill. The piece is an Audubon postcard with information about the bird on the back. And the other has no glass. It's a small watercolor of what looks to be an English robin.
So do you have art in the bathroom? Or do you have just white walls? Designer Nick Lewis always has something to say about white walls, lol. I like them so that the art I display will be highlighted more. But opinions vary on wall color, art, and especially art in the bathroom.
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