Favourite types of paintings

[CLOWN TICKLE]

My wife a trained artist has now decided to sell more of her paintings, she is into modern art, but there are people like me who like paintings that look like pictures so out of interest where do you sit on the easel

[China Doll]

Would never sit on an easel... most uncomfortable. (Sorry, couldn't resist).

Personally I agree with you to an extent, I do like pictures to look like pictures but I'm also a fan of abstract too.... I think as long as it means something to me (or indeed I just find it appealing) I would not say that I definately sway one way or another in the wonderful world of art.

I do admit to getting on my soap box a bit about things like a tin of soup being portrayed as art or a load of circles and squares on a page but then who's to say that it's not my own ignorance of this particular kind of art that is called in to question rather than the piece of art itself? Perhaps if I learnt more about it then maybe I'd see the deeper meaning too... I don't know. Each to their own I guess. And good luck to your wife with her paintings xx

[spudqueen]

I too like trees to look like trees etc, but Mr Spudqueen likes stuff like Picasso, consequently when he buys a painting I try to persuade him to put it up in his office!

[natalie_1982]

I'm with China Doll on this one, I like paintings to look like what they are supposed to be, I also like funky, different art that looks like a 2 year old has been let loose with a squeezy bottle of paint.

However, i do have issues with unmade beds, halved animals and bags of rubbish in the name of "art". I try to understand and see where the artist is coming from, but I just cannot apppreciate it. I guess it is all the eye of the beholder.

[RATTER15]

As a budding artist myself(metalart) I'm into anything that takes my fancy at the time, but I don't like the piles of junk we have all seen under the name of art. I like to think the artist has made what he felt was in his heart or seen in his minds eye and put a little bit of effort into his art.

[Hellion]

I think art is very much in the eye of the beholder and I think any piece of art can 'touch your soul' for a variety of different but personal reasons. I also think art does not necessarily have to be produced by a 'trained' artist for example childrens drawings.

But I agree with Natalie I also have issues with unmade beds.