{"id":34987,"date":"2026-03-09T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:46:05","slug":"a-brief-note-on-consumer-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/a-brief-note-on-consumer-art\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Note On Consumer Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, gentle reader, for major pieces of wall art, I&#8217;ve favored prints of master works from, er, the masters, starting with three prints I bought in college on a fresh new credit card in 1990 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Helmet\" target=\"_new\">The Man with the Golden Helmet<\/a> by Rembrandt, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christina%27s_World\" target=\"_new\">Christina&#8217;s World<\/a> by Wyeth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte\" target=\"_new\">A Saturday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<\/a> by Seurat) which I got a deal on (3 for $18&#8211;and by the time <em>we<\/em> paid them off, in probably a decade later if we consider the money paid to the credit company first-in, first out, we probably paid $100 each for them including interest).  Or <em>personal relics<\/em> which were gifts and\/or inherited from family members now likely <em>departed<\/em>.  My beautiful wife, however, favors <em>consumer art<\/em> which is mass-produced art of a topical theme, whether it&#8217;s the mere decorative squares and textures, Mediterranean landscapes, or Mediterranean cafes.<\/p>\n<p>We have two such works in the bedroom, and, gentle reader, <em>they are the same picture<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cafepainting1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cafepainting2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cafe facing out: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<li>Alley upstage right: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<li>Shopfront on right facing left: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<li>Covered cafe tables: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<li>Flowers: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<li>Awnings: &#x2714;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, the artistic expression difference is packed dirt vs cobblestones, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, I cannot talk; I inherited two H. Hargrove prints from my aunt <em>and then bought another at a garage sale<\/em>, and we still have two on the walls (one has been stored to make room for one of the cafes above).  So they come from a <em>personal relic<\/em> source and not just a catalog or home goods retailer.  <\/p>\n<p>Because I like to look at them and think about them, not just have them as visual background music.  But maybe that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know, gentle reader, for major pieces of wall art, I&#8217;ve favored prints of master works from, er, the masters, starting with three prints I bought in college on a fresh new credit card in 1990 (The Man with the Golden Helmet by Rembrandt, Christina&#8217;s World by Wyeth, and A Saturday Afternoon on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34991,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions\/34991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}