Since moving into our new home, we have to admit that we have a handful of framed artwork that's still leaning against the bedroom wall. We haven't gotten around to putting them up because (while we love the frames) it's the artwork that isn't jiving. It's a matter of the old artwork not living up to our new decor and the fact that our tastes have slightly changed.
Violet also had this same experience but instead of sending her artwork off to the framer--she decided to update it at home. After removing the old print, she chose to use a textured heart for matching frames which gives her living room a fresh look. Using string and a hot glue gun, she simply affixed the heart to the frame and put the piece back together. Such a simple DIY using things you already own--love it!
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But I like the before better...
I like the before, too!
um, is the heart supposed to be the final artwork? or hopefully it's just somehow useful as an intermediate step in the process?
How is re-using a frame updating art work? I don't have a particular preference for either piece, but this is a pretty feeble DIY.
Okay.....
Yeah, I'm in the "Huh?" category.
Just seeing the first photo, I thought that a new mat had been cut with the shape of a heart* for that wallpaper-y print, which would be... a little odd, but certainly an "update" and possibly interesting. Only when I saw all the photos and saw a "positive" heart shape and a glue gun did I realize that the old art had nothing to do with the new art. It's just the frame.
There have been at least a couple of posts where getting a new mat that crops in part of a picture was discussed. Now that's kind of interesting and possibly dramatic. (And still budget-friendly.)
*When I was 16, I got a copy of my friend's junior prom picture put in a frame with a heart-shaped red mat and gave it to her for her birthday. I think that's possibly the only appropriate use of a heart-shaped matting, and even then it's iffy. (In my defense, it was the 80s, so a lot of iffy things were going on.)
Reading through the comments above I wonder what my fellow AT readers think of my heart shaped cutouts: http://papercutworks.blogspot.com/
I personally do like Violet's re-do!
Updating Old Artwork orrrr Changing What's in the Same Frame?
I am with the other commenters in that I don't believe that this is an improvement. The after looks sort of slapdash and not well thought out. And basically what is happening is that you're recycling the frame.
Aside from the previous comments which I agree with - The heart on the right isn't even centered within it's frame...
Perhaps if the new artwork were in some bold new color, we'd be all over it - But this is a non-starter.
OK. ART is what is IN the frame. The frame is not the art. When you change out the contents of the frame, you can say you are "updating" the artwork that is in the frame. However, I think this might have been stated better since what's happening is New "artwork" -- and I definitely use the term loosely -- is replacing old "artwork", and that doesn't really constitute "updating" anything.
(As someone who got a bachelor's in art in college and taught it, I actually have a little problem with calling any old thing you hang on the wall "art". But that's my issue, I guess...)
And inprogress: YOUR hearts are artwork without the quotes! I like them a lot! Just cutting a heart out of decorative paper, however, is more like scrapbooking than making art. IMHO
Wish she had given the old print to me!
Unless you're 12, it's time for another change.
Change back, that is.
I agree with the sentiments of the masses here. What I don't agree with is buying artwork that dates - and if you can't afford good art frame some, photos but please please please don't buy cheap 'fashion' prints [even if they do match your curtains!].
What the frack? I think a better update would have been to give the print to a toddler armed with your favorite color markers to color it in. This is just, 'design on a dime' bad.
cute doggie though (c:
@jacksonlalonde:
That's a great idea!
um, what?
although i am glad i read this post because i love the paper cut hearts site that was posted in the comments!
I think this is just an example of a bad title.
SherryBinNH said it best: "ART is what is IN the frame. The frame is not the art. When you change out the contents of the frame, you can say you are "updating" the artwork that is in the frame. "
The title is what needs updating.
I am not an art major and I still don't think this is art.
Art - Is something created and inspires an emotion in the viewer. Love, happiness, hate, sadness.
Huh? is not an emotion, therefore this is not art.
Although I admit to having things on my walls that I do not feel strongly about, but it is better than blank walls.
If you define art as inspiring emotion, this qualifies. It seems to have inspired plenty on this thread.
Boy, tough crowd. The new pieces look fine in her space--*much* nicer than I'd expect, actually, given that they are just hearts with holes punched in them. I agree that the *title* of this post is what is misleading (since it IS putting new art in an old frame, not "updating" the existing art), but there's not anything wrong with the project featured.
SherryBinNH & apf - thank you! Much appreciated... This post got me a little nervous about my artistic pursuit! :-)
OMG. What a waste of cyberspace.
Yeah, this is a "tough crowd" post. I didn't mean for my comment to put down the result. I actually like the after picture - the grey wall, the artwork, the coffee cup, the dog :)
And I wasn't objecting to heart shapes in artwork per se - I was saying I thought that a mat had been cut with a heart-shaped opening to view the image through, which I do (mildly) object to as being corny and most appropriate for 16 year olds.
inprogress, your hearts are lovely.
I was mostly objecting to this post advertising "freshen up your artwork" advice, which ended up being to swap different artwork into a frame. Yes, I'm aware that that's a possibility. Thanks. Now show me something I don't know!
Better before.
I prefer before. Nice house.