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Four Left by Don Tiller
This week we want to know, what famous piece of art are you tired of seeing reproduced on everything? Does Klimt’s The Kiss make you lovesick? Starry Night make you want to turn off the lights? You have until 12/11c Monday to answer. Click for official rules.
I cringe every time I see those Campari posters – and don't understand why every 20-something with their first place hangs them all over and then calls it 'decorating.'
Oh No!! Haha!! I have four of them hanging in MY room!! I got them when I was 19 though… in Italy when I was living abroad. Does that give me any leeway?? lol.
I'm tired of Andy Warhol type paintings.
The Scream is everywhere. There are others that are all over, but I don't mind seeing them. The Scream, not so much.
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe
Sunflowers Just one is enough but when done in a frame and 100 is just too too many.
andy warhol and his bananas/campbell soup cans. they're not painted. just silkscreens.
I have to cast my vote with those who say "The Scream."
I would have to agree with the folks who said "Mona Lisa"
"Le Bassin aux nymphéas" by Claude MONET 1920-26
Mona Lisa, definitely. I've seen it in person and it's so small and unprepossessing. Over it!
The Mona Lisa.. never have found what was so great about it.
Waterlillies…. In every Drs office!
The "look at me, I am cultured" art prints are always popular. Everyone had Van Gogh's "Starry Night" hanging from their wall when I was in college. Including me.
"The Scream", "American Gothic" and "Last Supper" are three HIGHLY over done bits of art. Not only are they all over the place in commercials, but they are the three most parodied in TV sitcoms and comedy movies too!
ENOUGH!
Starry Night IS everywhere. Even though I do still like it, it's almost taken for granted anymore and not appreciated. And I have to agree with the Dogs playing poker. My husband wants one for his man-room! HELP ME!!!
the Scream. Not my thing
Anything by Monet, really. Great artist, but his work is way over-reproduced.
I am tired of "word" art – seeing "dream" or "simplify" or "family" in typography on the walls or mantel has been overdone.
i am so tired of the campbells soup paintings
Starry Night.
On the other hand, I love seeing the Star Spangled Banner everywhere I look, even on my CC!!
I agree that Starry Night has been overexposed. The Mona Lisa is a close second for me! I think she wouldn't be smiling so easily if she knew where her face had been seen!
I agree on the dogs/poker comments! And I'm tired of Pinkie and Blue Boy. My grandma had the pair in her house forever, and I swear they stared at me!
The Scream
"The Scream" is really getting old.
American Gothic
For me, it has to be the detail portraying the two little chubby cherubs of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Walking into the Sistine Chapel is such mystical experience (for lack of better words), one can just breathe the art and the beauty..and then you spot those two overly-reproduced cherubs..they are everywhere! On pencil cases, pens, mirrors, note pads, t-shirts, fridge magnets, slippers, brooches, aaarghh!!!
I've got to agree with Monet's Waterlilies collections being way overproduced in prints, coffee mugs, nightlights, t-shirts, umbrellas… makes people think there's only one – not several in that collection… but then again, somebody's just tryin to earn a living and i cant blame them for that..
I would LOVE to be the kneeling woman in "the Kiss", with the lights out on a"Starry Night", and not the stern-face farm couple in Grant Wood's American Gothic that has been overly reproduced and on everything from salad dressing to popcorn!
Starry Night. It's seems it is nothing more than a marketable idea, rather than the piece of art it really is.
the mona lisa… everywhere you look…
I have to say almost anything Van Gogh has done including, Sunflowers by Van Gogh. In addition to that … any van that has the phrase, Go Van Go, on it.
I have to say almost anything Van Gogh has done including, Sunflowers by Van Gogh.
Andy Warhol's version of Marilyn Monroe makes me nuts
The Singing Butler by Jack Vettraino – at first it was really unique, but now it's everywhere.
Anything by Thomas Kinkade or one of the many knock-off artists who try to emulate him. He has become too commercialized. You can't open up a magazine without seeing some offer for a train or a truck or a plate or or or… yours for only 6 monthly payments of $39.95. UGH!
Starry Night by VG.
Hands down it's Edvard Munch' s "The Scream."
Dogs playing poker….
I think the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci is, for sure, the most recognizable art work world wide due to its publicity, with the thefts and all, and its constant reproduction and use in parody. Therefore, I could deal with a little less exposure of the overplayed "Mona Lisa".
My voted goes to "The Scream."
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe definitely!
Most of Monet's work has been done to death..Sooo tired of the waterlilies and about anything else…
Oil Paintings by Monet
Three dogs playing poker : )
Thomas Kincaid. although he's very talented and his work is beautiful. It's definately over rated.
Monet and those damn waterlilies. I saw a repro at a furniture store recently and had to leave before I tossed my cookies.
I have to say Edvard Munch's "The Scream". I see it everywhere.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. (the one with the melting clocks in a stark landscape). So many college students think that this makes them intellectual to have this poster in their dorm!
I have to say my first thought was with the Mona Lisa as well. One is beautiful, and the rest… well, are too much.
Adding to the chorus of 'The Scream' – so over it!
No disrespect to the Lord but Rapheals' angels are everywhere!!