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Love these!

Art should not be used "to fill a space".

Each work you purchase or create should have some personal appeal - not because it is the right size.

Art and "sofa paintings" are not the same thing.

I think it's a great idea and I'll most likely use it someday.

For some art is simply decor, something pleasant to fill space. I see nothing wrong with not taking it so seriously.

Lighten up, Guerilla. No one is talking about buying a bunch of Thomas Kincaid prints just to cover a blank. Sometimes you have an empty space the needs filling.

i'm with guerrilla on this one.

having said that though, if you have a triptych (3 pieces meant to be viewed as one piece) then yes, it may have the actual impact of one piece.

grouping three pieces together do not make a triptych (technically)-- the examples you have up there are not triptychs unless those 3 pieces are meant to be one. capiche?

i'm just nitpicking at the details at otherwise helpful post, just don't want readers to get the wrong idea about what a triptych is in the art world.

Oh brother. (not a critique of the post, by the way. I love the fun pop and simplicity of the first set of three!)

Um - Tryptichs are not often hinged together...
...if it is, then it's called a folding screen.

I think the first shot with the three prints looks like something you'd see in a hotel room.

Well, actually, in art, a triptych technically refers to a three part hinged ALTARPIECE. But people do use it more loosely to refer to images that are meant to be displayed as a group - it's just not technically correct. I'm an art historian, BTW, so I'm not just blowin' smoke.

I guess my first reaction was similar to Texaninexile's. If we are getting technical, the triptych was popularized in the Middle Ages with Christian iconography (often hinged, but sometimes otherwise attached), but I believe the word and method originated in Ancient Greece.

Commonly in contemporary art (and for that matter, religious art), a triptych refers to a group of three pieces that were intentionally done as a set, so they must not only relate to each other, but in some way interact with each other in a way where they do not work independently.

In other words, three pieces of art in a row does not necessarily a triptych make. That doesn't mean three similar pieces don't look great together, though. Its a great solution to achieve weight with smaller pieces if one large one doesn't work.

yes, strict definition in art: 3 panels hinged together.