Buying, hanging and living with erotic art

Notes from the studio

Buying erotic art and not sure where to start? Honest answers on choosing a painting, where it goes on your wall and what arrives at your door.

59 articleswritten in the studio in Boekel

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Two blank sheets of photographic paper on a studio table, one overlapping the other, the overlap of the two sheets circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words two rights, one image, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsPainting someone from a photograph: two rights on one image A mobile phone lying face down on a paint-stained studio table, the phone lying face down circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words telling, not asking, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsDo the women know? What I write to them, and what I do not ask Five stretched canvases of different sizes standing in a row, all turned face to the wall, one canvas in the row circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words one canvas each, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsOne canvas each: the eleven subjects I painted only once A room mid-move with three flat painting boxes standing upright on their edges against a bare wall, the upright boxes circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words upright, never flat, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workMoving house with an oil painting A plaster wall with a hard band of sunlight across it and a radiator below, the sunlit wall struck through with a black marker cross, an arrow from the handwritten words it does not undo, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workSunlight, radiators and the walls you should not use A living room with a dark honed stone wall along its length and a stone grey sofa, the dark stone wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words better than white, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workHanging a painting on a dark wall A dining room with a concrete ceiling and a steel-framed window, the wall to one side of the empty space circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words empty is the point, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workWhich canvas fits your wall? A size chart in centimetres A dining room with a concrete ceiling and a steel-framed window, the wall below the concrete ceiling circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words two are already there, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workWill a tall canvas fit this wall? A narrow corridor in daylight, the near wall close to the camera, the near wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words stand back twice its height, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workViewing distance: how close is too close? A single nail left in a bare plaster wall, fresh dust below it, the nail circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words the wedding photos too, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workHouse viewings: what an agent asks you to take down A coastal loft bedroom with a steel-framed window and a travertine floor, the empty wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words the listing, not the guest, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workLetting your place with the work still on the wall An entrance hall with a dark stone wall and a slim console table, the wall on the route to the table circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words by route, not by room, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workClients and colleagues in your house

What is holding you up?

  1. I can't tell whether this is art or pornography.
  2. I want to buy one, but everything I find online looks mass-produced.
  3. I'm not sure I'm the kind of person who buys something like this.
  4. I don't dare hang it where visitors can see it.
  5. I don't know how high to hang it, or what belongs next to it.
  6. I don't know whether it will fit above the bed.
  7. I don't want the delivery driver to see what I bought.
  8. I recognise the woman in the painting and want to know how she ended up on a canvas.
  9. I don't know what I actually get for 35 euro.
  10. I want to know whether one person really paints all of these by hand.

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