Art for a bedroom

[justinbaily21]

I understand that art is a very personal thing, and that it is all subjective. However, I am a Sophomore in college who will be moving into a pretty decent loft in August. My room is painted off-white, has a white carpet and half of one wall is exposed concrete. The concrete is the same color as the column in the picture, but is flat and flush with the wall. I currently have a 'so dark brown it's black' bed, a matching bed-side table, a black and silver lamp, a white leather futon and a tan colored desk. Where can I buy good, cheap art to spruce up the place? What colors would you recommend? I am open to photography or prints. How should I best utilize the concrete wall?

Thank you for the help!

The room looks like this, minus the furniture:

[lenn]

ikea sells supercheap 'art' to fun up your room

i would try to get some takashi murakami prints tho... shouldn't be too expensive (at least if theyre not signed by the man himself) and he's got some awesome colourful work

[keagan]

your favorite picture+http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/=

or something.

[sybaritical]

How cheap is cheap?

[jeepster]

if you have any friends that work in the movie biz, you cna get large posters off the backlot. my brother has a huge like popsicle advertisment that fits his wall, very pop-art. it was from some b-film as a prop. fucking sweet though. ill take some pics sometime.

[alterion]

How cheap is cheap?

quite- are we talking poster $20 cheap - or a more reasonable canvas print $300 ish cheap. For the latter blaugallery.com does some very nice stuff. For the former head to MOMA or similar and raid the poster racks of things you like.

[Servo2000]

Concrete looks awesome left bare. I'd say find some decent framed posters for the part that's not concrete.

[pwnzj00]

Art is only as good as your printer...

http://www.blockposters.com/

[furien]

Buy some deviant art prints and frame them. Some of these are up in my house.

http://www.deviantart.com/print/128229/

http://www.deviantart.com/print/227547/

[Larry!]

I approve of deviantart. Check out Zilla774's work for some nice stuff.

(I also have Rays of Reflection )

[upandcoming]

go to and art supply store, get some canvas and paint and make your own! cheap, and you can make it a color that suits you

[thelaststarfighter]

well...

If your budget was bigger, I'd say get a piece from Tes One, as his can get up to 4 - 6 feet long (depending), a few feet high, and painted on plywood. They would be an amazing focal point to the room.

But you're talking low thousands for one of his works.

-

-

--

BUT, if you're into more urban inspired art (as above), I'd recommend some prints from an LA based artist named Fatoe. All my sigs/avatars are pieces of his work, he's got an amazing layered digital style that incorporates drawn work as well as photoshop. All his prints (when bought via his website) are hand signed, numbered, and for the ones i copped, he added spray paint of his own to the pieces and dipped the printed photo paper into paint before he sent them, so each print has their own unique touch. You can buy prints through his website here or even get prints on canvas from imagekind.

-

-

-

hope that helps.

enjoy.

[justinbaily21]

Yes! Wow, very helpful suggestion. It's too bad that the first artist's works are in the mid thousands. I could definitely see a $300-$400 if I was really blown away by a piece, but that is a little too much. Thank you for the post!

[thelaststarfighter]

No problem...

I wouldn't completly write off Tes One though, if you're down to spend $300//$400 you might want to message him on myspace and see if he has any smaller pieces he'd let go for that much. I can actually message my boy who's tight with him and ask if that'd be an option... I'll get back to you.

[thelion1856]

chuck anderson yo. shit runs you found 20 to 50 bucks. he sells his stuff online at his web site. oh and he signs each print himself.

[thelaststarfighter]

word to chuck anderson. wunderkind.

[GoSurface]

I just hang my own stuff up.

[upandcoming]

www.etsy.com, all handmade stuff...search prints or something like it.

[justinbaily21]

Some of us have very different taste in art...it's interesting.

I guess you aren't too artistically inclined, but making nice looking stuff really isn't that hard depending on the medium. If you put in the time, you can make something really satisfying no matter what your skills are like.

I have no artistic talent whatsoever. It's a shame, though, because I have always wanted to be able to paint and draw.

[JustHaja]

am i the only one that misses those days when mirrors on the ceiling was considered bedroom art....*sigh*

[artificialsky]

word to chuck anderson. wunderkind.

chuck anderson is a douche relic of the mid-2000s

YES WE KNOW YOU DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE CHUCK. HEY DOES ANYBODY READ THE BRILLIANCE ANYMORE? APPROVED BY GENSLER!

[upandcoming]

I have no artistic talent whatsoever. It's a shame, though, because I have always wanted to be able to paint and draw.

you dont need artistic ability...get some skinny tape, put it down in a design you like, and paint...or just throw some paint on and make it abstract!!

[superpants]

My friend has purchased amazing art from local artists - for very cheap! They are all original pieces and of course very unique.

[thelaststarfighter]

I know this is still outta your price range, but I figured there might be someone interested.

hypebeast-haven Digital Gravel has posted a series of sheOne one-off canvas pieces. The prices are high ($2,500 for most, one thirty foot long canvas for $12k).

But some of these are really fresh...

[corporategrunt]

I saw the SheOne thing on DG as well, although it's those canvas pieces are not my cuppa tea, I thought the plexi-glass ones were interesting idea - to basically steal the idea and do my favorite phrases from movies and random quotes and whatnot.

[gfunkdocta]

shit i need help too.

all i got is this kozy n dan shit that i'm over.

but all the recommendations here look whack to me. i guess i can't win.

[plongin]

art pieces would be cool, but i prefer good photography shots

[thomas_highstreet]

wim delvoye - cloaca (multiple)

far more honest than all the 'art' posted so far

[thelaststarfighter]

heh.... honest is subjective.

[axtsang]

How about a subtle, abstract Kuma Sutra painting?