Would you hang these on your wall? A Poll!

[PeterPan]

Ok, this is fun, but it's actually kinda serious. My grandmother brought some really nice art prints back from a family trip to Italy years ago, had them framed in glorious 70s gold and cream, and they become the stuff of legend. Somehow they got handed down to me. She hung them on her walls, and apparently they got so many comments and eyebrows that she gave up and put them away. :D A family member gave them to me, thinking I'd enjoy having something of my grandma's. 

 

The two prints are:

 

The Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve which you can see here The Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve – interpretation | Unit 3

 

and 

 

The Creation of Adam seen here The Creation of Adam - Wikipedia

 

 

I've had them for 3+ years now and haven't been able to decide. They've been in my laundry room, on a shelf, waiting. Well the time has come! Advise me on what to do with these nude dudes!   :lol:

 

The prints are 9X21, framed out larger, so the figures themselves are a bit bigger than barbie dolls basically. Big enough to be educational. Definitely not skinny like Barbies. Built out, full-figured, you might say.  :laugh:

[luuknam]

Not my decorating style, and it's not that I'm too prudish. I'd probably drop them off at Goodwill, unless I'm misunderstanding how much they're worth. If they're worth in the triple figures, I might sell them.

[JustEm]

While I like the art itself I wouldn't hang it in my house. It just isn't appealing to look at daily. I want art work that I smile at everyday I see it. I would get real sick of those prints quickly

[JustEm]

Oh and it has nothing to do with being prudish. It just isn't my art style for decorating.

[LucyStoner]

No I would not. I promised my favored art history professor to eschew prints of very famous pieces in favor of art I could afford to buy. That's stuck with me and with rare exception I only display art we have bought by mostly still living artists.

 

 

This isn't a prudish thing. I'd hang a nude, but not a print of a nude museum masterpiece.

Edited February 11, 2017 by LucyStoner

[marbel]

Nothing prudish about it, but it's not appealing to me as art for my home.   

 

 

[Plink]

I hate cheap prints.  Even nicely framed ones.  

 

I doubt you could sell them for more than the cost of the frames.  The images are just too familiar.  Try giving them back or feel free to do what you want with the frames, but don't feel guilty about not displaying them.

[Melissa in Australia]

I would hang them if I had wall space.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Sure, I'd hang them. But I like great art, and obviously can't afford the originals (not that I could hang them since they are painted on a ceiling and aren't exactly movable.  ;)  )   I have an eclectic mix of art on the walls. 

[Guest]

If they were nicely done prints and I liked the art? Fine. Otherwise I'm another who eschews prints in favor of original art I can afford.

[happi duck]

I would hang them somewhere random like the laundry room and think of my grandmother often.

[Rachel]

They aren't my style. I could see hanging them someplace ironic like my garage or the laundry room as a way to remember grandma. However, I wouldn't feel guilty not keeping them either.

[PeterPan]

While I like the art itself I wouldn't hang it in my house. It just isn't appealing to look at daily. I want art work that I smile at everyday I see it. I would get real sick of those prints quickly

I agree! They don't make me smile. Having my grandma's rolling pin makes me smile, but these don't.

 

No I would not. I promised my favored heart history professor to eschew prints of very famous pieces in favor of art I could afford to buy. That's stuck with me and with rare exception I only display art we have bought by mostly still living artists.

 

 

This isn't a prudish thing. I'd hang a nude, but not a print of a nude museum masterpiece.

It's true, I'd rather have my photography or things we make. I saw some fiber art when we were in Sedona, but even that I didn't want to buy but wanted to make it myself. 

 

I hate cheap prints.  Even nicely framed ones.  

 

I doubt you could sell them for more than the cost of the frames.  The images are just too familiar.  Try giving them back or feel free to do what you want with the frames, but don't feel guilty about not displaying them.

 

Yup, I kinda felt guilty about it. Guess I'll toss that feeling. 

 

I had no clue so many people would be in the no way, wouldn't bother camp! Well that's consoling! I may be able to find some really bizarre use for them, like in the top of a closet ceiling. Can you imagine people cleaning out my junk in 30 years and going WHAT IN THE WORLD...  :lol:

 

I think, since that family member hadn't hung them, they wouldn't want them back. I'll definitely ask before I toss.

[Zoo Keeper]

My childhood piano teacher had a oversized print (nicely framed) of the Creation on her wall.  She had taped (on the glass) a strategically placed fig leaf on Adam. ;)  As I child, I loved the print.  I found it classy and very different from the boring old family pictures hanging on my walls at home. 

 

ETA:  As others have said, unless it has meaning to you--gone, gone, gone.   

Edited February 11, 2017 by Zoo Keeper

[chiguirre]

I had a poster of Adam and Eve on my wall in college. It wasn't the full work, just a close up of their torsos.

[Outdoorsy Type]

I actually love the closet ceiling idea!

[Jaybee]

Not my taste, for hanging. I like Creation, but not for hanging on the walls. My tastes range more within the folk art area, and Asian works in one room. I don't care for lots of the things at my mom's, but our likes are very different.

[Farrar]

I have nothing against nude bodies. And I'll do prints (though we do have a lot more original art, kid art, and antique maps up). But not those particular ones. No Baroque anything, thanks.

 

If someone wanted them, I'd happily give them. But if no one else in the family did, I'd snap some photos for memories, and then cannibalize the frames for something else or donate them.

 

 

[EMS83]

I'd keep but not display them, if I had a place to safely store them.  I'm find with Renaissance art, but I'd rather have a big book of it, not prints on my wall.  My house is decorated with family and personal things, anyway.

[Spryte]

No I would not. I promised my favored art history professor to eschew prints of very famous pieces in favor of art I could afford to buy. That's stuck with me and with rare exception I only display art we have bought by mostly still living artists.

 

 

This isn't a prudish thing. I'd hang a nude, but not a print of a nude museum masterpiece.

 

That's my thinking on art.  I grew up in the art world, and every one of my mom's friends is/was an artist.  Our house is decorated in living artists' work.  A few of those living artists have passed away recently, but still...  I support and love their work.  A few of them went on to some measure of fame (or infamy, in the case of one particular artist!).  One of my favorites is actually a nude, so not a prudish thing here either.  

 

Prints of famous artists belong in books, on a shelf, pulled out occasionally.  :)  

 

The exception I'd make is if I had loved those framed prints of my grandmother's, when I was growing up. I supposed if I'd spent hours gazing at the framed prints in admiration, I'd feel more disposed to hang them out of sentimentality now?  

 

Honestly, I'd give the framed prints to someone who loves them, or donate them.  

 

But if you enjoy them - by all means, hang them and enjoy!

[SparklyUnicorn]

Yeah sure why not.

 

 

[Joyofsixreboot]

I'd hang them in beautiful '70's glory. But I like kitsch and irony.

[MercyA]

What a fun question!  :)

 

The paintings are not to my taste. I'd donate them, unless I had a sentimental attachment to them. 

[El...]

I guess I wouldn't hang them, because my dh would cringe every time he saw them. 

 

May I just say, this era of art makes me feel better about my quite-ordinary lumpy physique.  :hat:

 

 

 

 

[foxbridgeacademy]

If they aren't worth enough to sell then I'd want to make use of them so I'd likely paint over them (print on canvas right?) or donate them.

 

I'm not a prude but I don't want to look at that daily.

Edited February 11, 2017 by foxbridgeacademy

[lavender's green]

Given my tastes and the set-up of my house, I'd store them most of the time, and pull them out a few weeks a year to go in our study/homeschool room during a relevant lesson. For the most part I don't like hanging prints, and I have just about zero wall space in the study, but I could temporarily prop them on the piano and have fun discussing the family history and art history, plus show that Mommy's not afraid of nudes! Then pack them away again.

[Spryte]

Given my tastes and the set-up of my house, I'd store them most of the time, and pull them out a few weeks a year to go in our study/homeschool room during a relevant lesson. For the most part I don't like hanging prints, and I have just about zero wall space in the study, but I could temporarily prop them on the piano and have fun discussing the family history and art history, plus show that Mommy's not afraid of nudes! Then pack them away again.

 

I quite like the idea of pulling them out every so often, just to chat about that period in art and the family history.  That's a fun thought!

[SKL]

I voted "No, and I'd sell them," but actually I would probably donate them somewhere.

 

I don't find them attractive nor in line with the decorating style anywhere in our house.  Nor do I have any relatives who would hang them.

[JFSinIL]

On the ceiling, perhaps ;-)

[SKL]

PS when I was a kid, we had the "Life and Times of ___" series, which contained those paintings and many similar, which we could look at any time we wanted.  Likewise I have art history type books in my house with such paintings.  So it's not me being prudish.  It just isn't my family's idea of decoration.

[PeterPan]

My childhood piano teacher had a oversized print (nicely framed) of the Creation on her wall.  She had taped (on the glass) a strategically placed fig leaf on Adam. ;)  As I child, I loved the print.  I found it classy and very different from the boring old family pictures hanging on my walls at home. 

 

ETA:  As others have said, unless it has meaning to you--gone, gone, gone.   

 

Love it!   :lol:

[Robin M]

Do they match your decor at all, colorwise? I'd find an unfinished wall or corner, do it up in the colors of the painting. I'm thinking scarves, doilies, whatnots. A niche or nook devoted to your grandmother.

[zoobie]

Offer them to other family members before sending them off elsewhere

[maize]

From the Sistine Chapel!

 

I like them but Dh would be uncomfortable so no I wouldn't hang them.

[Garga]

I love the idea of putting them on the ceiling of a closet or a small bathroom.  I would 100% do that, hands down.  Probably the bathroom rather than the closet. 

 

I'm another person who likes to have original artwork on the wall rather than prints.  In fact, I'm in the process of gathering a few extra paintings, and when I have enough, I'm going to turn a wall in my living room into a wall of pictures, pretty much unbroken, from floor to ceiling.  It's a small wall and it'll look awesome.  If the frames were interesting enough, and if my wall was big enough, I might put those pictures of your Grandma's mixed in with the art on my Wall of Art.  They'd just be part of a huge mix.  

 

But I wouldn't hang them standing alone, unless they were on the ceiling of the closet or bathroom.

Edited February 12, 2017 by Garga

[6packofun]

No, I wouldn't hang them in my home mainly because they are too grand, honestly.  I'm not a huge fan of prints of masterpieces, though, and am pretty particular about which ones I'd put up in my house.  BUT, I'm sentimental and would probably keep them.  No idea where I'd store them depending on size, but I wouldn't want to get rid of them because of the family story.  (Although eventually I might.  LOL)

[KarenC]

I don't have a problem with it, but it's really not my style.  To me, that kind of thing belong in a more formal house and my house is far from formal.

[Guest]

No and I'd give them away. I don't care about nudity, but I don't like the expulsion from the Garden one; it's ugly. I don't find anything offensive about the Creation of Adam but, again, it's just not my style.

 

I did long ago have a print of a Steve Hanks watercolor that was a nude, though not very overt. And it was in my bedroom sitting room. I did change my mind about having that as art on the walls after I had kids, though.

[Anne in CA]

I don't care for them, as I think they are ugly, the nudity is not my problem. I would offer them around to family members before disposing of them. If no one in my extended family wanted them I'd sell or give them away. But I'd offer first.

[KrissiK]

Well, I am a bit of a prude. I would have no problem studying them as art, but I just can't see them hanging on my wall. But I wouldn't judge anyone else if they were on their walls.

[Amy in NH]

I voted no, but not because of the nudity.  I love Michelangelo, but the scenes just aren't something I love enough to hang.  I have limited wall space.

[Katy]

Who cares what the hive thinks?  If you haven't been able to decide what to do with them for this long, you don't love them, you just feel some sort of weird obligation.  Ask your family members if anyone wants them, and if not, donate them and feel good about it.

[Ailaena]

I love the idea of putting them on the ceiling of a closet or a small bathroom. I would 100% do that, hands down. Probably the bathroom rather than the closet.

 

This. Me, too :D

[Stacia]

I think you should hang The Creation of Adam on a ceiling in your home -- in the laundry room, the bathroom, a closet. Somewhere unexpected that would make you smile at the silliness of its grandiosity as well as the ceiling location. A smile that would help you remember your grandma.

 

Or, if you don't want to do that, take photos of both, print out smaller versions & put them on the inside of the cabinet door where you store the rolling pin. Donate the originals & smile at the (reduced) artwork artfully hidden in the cabinet alongside her rolling pin.

 

:)

[OneStepAtATime]

Well, the second one is actually the wallpaper that is all over my Master Bathroom.   :lol: I don't really have a choice there  (I like the second work of art but I really don't want it as my wallpaper.  I keep intending to remodel but have not had the time/energy/funds since we moved in).  

 

As for the first one, no not my style.  Not prudish about it, I just don't find that one appealing.  I have seen versions of that one done in a way that was more appealing to me.

 

I will be honest, I think DH, my mother, my brother and my kids would all really be uncomfortable with the first one hanging in our hallway.  They are already used to our wallpaper, though, so maybe I am wrong.  :laugh:

Edited February 12, 2017 by OneStepAtATime

[Hannah]

I like the random location idea - to make you smile at her memory.

[Ausmumof3]

I think art like that needs to be on a grand scale in a grand location. Id prefer something original and smaller and friendlier for my house.

[Night Elf]

If you are uncomfortable about getting rid of them, pack them in paper with a note inside about their history and who they belonged to and why. That way if someone is going through your stuff after you're gone, they'll understand they're not yours.

 

I don't like them and wouldn't hang them just for sentimental reasons. Your grandmother must have been quite a character.

[regentrude]

No I would not. I promised my favored art history professor to eschew prints of very famous pieces in favor of art I could afford to buy. That's stuck with me and with rare exception I only display art we have bought by mostly still living artists.

 

This isn't a prudish thing. I'd hang a nude, but not a print of a nude museum masterpiece.

 

This.

I do not hang reproductions on my walls. It has nothing to do with them being nudes; I would not hang a print of Van Gogh's sunflowers or Monet's water lilies either. 

 

I'd donate them, or give them to an artist friend who would like the frames.

Edited February 12, 2017 by regentrude

[Xahm]

I vote closet ceiling. That would make me smile, and it would be a fun story for your kids to pass on.