Urban Art Association

pride, pleasure and sheer indulgence

Depends if you bought them from the begining then you really do understand them.Other than that your one of the crowd.Also if you did'nt look at your walls you would bump into them.And we all love a satirist.

>>>Given you know the punchline, once it is on your walls what draws you to keep looking at it?<<<<

They are VERY powerful compositions and I don't care how many times I look at each one (a few times a day), it does anything but dilute my appreciation for the works themselves. I've got paintings by artists that may have more technical proficiency in some ways but they don't capture the ingenuity nor do they speak for an entire movement that i consider the signature of this civilization. You know great art when you see it or at least I think I do. I've never been one to argue that art in any specific medium needs to be complex to be great; on the contrary, often it is the simple compositions in music or paintings that move me and the rest of the world the most.

Ultimately, I know that Banksy on our walls has only increased our desire to own more of his work. We've got a well rounded and fairly large collection over a range of movements and next to Warhol, there is no other artist that we own that I have found to to be so addictive. I've also learned with collecting that there are very few pieces that you fall out of love with. While I can appreciate why some might think of these paintings as a tongue in cheek joke if you will that could get repetitive on their walls, to me they capture his humor and social commentary in a convincingly powerful way and they draw me in further each day as the viewer.

Take Banksy out of the equation for a moment and look to Richard Prince. I, for one, don't understand the fuss over the nurse paintings and that's ok because I can't afford them anyway. Still, there are many of his compositions that are in essence clever stories or jokes written out on monochrome canvases and I find many of them to be brilliant. Does one get bored of a Fontana because it's a simple canvas with a cut down the middle? How about a "boring" all blue Yves Klein painting? Or Dodsy, does the childish nature of many of the best Dubuffet's grow old once you've looked at them 20 times? Of course not, they grow stronger.

It's called materialistic.

I absolutely love the prints on my walls, I see 3 banksy's every morning as I leave for work, which sets me up for the day. and when I get back, looking at the art on the walls stops me having to look at the sh1tloads of kids toys that my daughters have covered the floors in!!

Probably the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning I see every day. Always make me feel good however long they have been up.

Not stopped staring at my Herakut since I hung it!

Several years back when my daughter was a baby every night I would walk around my house with my daughter in my arms pointing at the art on my walls. Talking to her about each piece even though she was only months old and to young to understand. Thankfully we have a new arrival in the house whom I now treat to the same ritual each night. My most relaxing and most pleasurable moments of the day.