Artwork often works well unframed when placed against a neutral colored wall.

Sometime a long time ago, that picture was used as a jumping off point for a post that solicited people's ideas of other quotes they might like on their walls. I've never been able to find the post again...can anyone help?

Unframed art is awesome but that fourth picture kinda disturbs me.

Some of the examples in the photos are canvas or fabric art - anything that has a solid backing can get away with not being framed. Canvas artwork that is on stretched bars is already ready to sit or to be hung - no framing needed.

nwu: The first picture is of my bedroom, before I moved this month. Our house was featured in a tour last Fall, and then the DIY art was reposted here: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/diy/an-easy-doityourself-statement-sign-heres-lookin-at-me-kid-107848

:)

I agree with Pi! A lot of the pictures you have posted are stretched canvas. They're much too wide to frame.

i love unframed art, especially canvas. it just looks so modern and clean to me.

I see clothes pegs and magnets used to display photos here - what are some other ideas? I'd love a post featuring different ideas for displaying unframed photos.

My husband is a photographer who keeps presenting me with wonderful photographs - bigger than snapshot size. I'd like to display them without framing them first. And I'd like to change them out easily and often.

No picture is too wide to frame.

Those prints will curl up soon and look crummy.

I am a painter and I have had a lot of experience with framing.

As I said the photos will curl.

If they are 'art' photos' drymounting them on archival foamcore back or white- then leaning them against a narrow shelf, in my opinion, would make a classier presentation.

The small family or intimate photos can be presented, strung up, pinned etc.

I have framed large pastels- 6' high in custom made plexi-boxes. You can do that for photos or drawings.

I have seen many paintings hung with what is called a "gallery wrap' which is when the canvas is stretched over the edges of the frame. It is great when it is neatly done, but a chintzy horror if it is not.

Pinning art to a wall, I think, looks rather careless. It cheapens the work.

@ Dulcibella
Binder clips are another way to display photos without a frame. I like the small chrome ones. You can use the binder as a base and the clasps to hold the picture or reverse where the clasps are like little legs.

Man, I just could *not* wake up facing that comma splice every day.

Ouch, le_sacre! You know, the typical written lyrics of the song are spliced the same was as the plywood poster I made. Or, I could've used a semi-colon or back slash. I don't know. I thought a comma was prettier. heh

amandaPlease,

The comma is prettier.

Next time you do this use either the new generation of particle board OR MDF. If you can afford it have it cradled- ie wood strips around the back- to keep it from warping.

Better yet use a piece of veneered foamcore.
Here is one source http://www.foamcoreheaven.com/gatorboard.html
but art supply stores may carry this and you may be able to buy a single piece from a framer or a sign maker.

It is very light weight.

You can also have large prints made from your digital photos and have them drymounted. This company will print them on canvas for you to stretch.

Found today in the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/technology/personaltech/15basics.html?src=me&ref=general

@le_sacre: Merci beaucoup! C'est vrai!

I used to have a lot of unframed art, including many canvases on stretchers. I liked how they looked.

Then I got a mat cutter and cut mats for all the mattable stuff and stuck them in simple, inexpensive stock frames that are on sale all the time in the chain craft stores.

I finished off the stretched canvases by painting strips of pine lath black and tacking them to the edges of the stretchers.

What a difference! Framing---even if it's just the narrowest band of black around the painting--- really made the art stand out much better on the walls. I've framed over 200 pieces since I got my mat cutter. Ok, I did use a lot of old frames that I got at auction or from stuff that I didn't care about anymore, but still, it was SO much cheaper than getting it done professionally.

I have the Alto 45 mat cutting system, which cost just under $100 new. You can find them on ebay now and then for a little less than that. Their cutting tool is very comfortable to use.

A comma splice is an inappropriate comma between two independent clauses. In other words, it's a comma where a period or a semicolon should be.

Lyrics are typically organized with line breaks rather than commas, not unlike poems. When they're quoted in-text and are less than four lines long (that is, not organized in lines), a forward slash marks the line break.

So, yes, it's a comma splice, and, no, it's not typically how lyrics are reproduced. That said, it's also a piece of art, which gives you some wiggle room w/r/t punctuation. Just don't invite any militant grammarians to sleep over!

If it's a cheap reproduction, a postcard or a photograph, by all means, hang it however you like. I rather like the clothes line look.

However, I had a friend once who ruined an original poster from the movie "Metropolis" by hanging it on the wall using bull clips. It's now dirty and torn and probably worth about 1/2 it's original value. Just sayin'.