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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A contemporary living room at dusk, lamplight across a walnut slatted wall, an upright rectangle and a nail drawn in marker, marking where a canvas is not, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workYour parents are visiting: leave it up An entrance hall with a dark stone wall and a slim console table, the wall beside the console circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words say it once, no apology, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workThe cleaner, the plumber and the painting A bathroom in warm off-white tadelakt plaster with a walk-in shower and a moulded plaster washstand, the bare wall struck through with a black marker cross, an arrow from the handwritten words not in here, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workCan you hang an oil painting in a bathroom? A small guest room in warm plaster, a single bed with an upholstered headboard, the wall behind the headboard circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words behind the bed, only there, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workA painting in the guest room A small home study with a black desk and shelving, a rust-orange chair pulled out, the wall the desk camera frames struck through with a black marker cross, an arrow from the handwritten words not the camera wall, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workA painting in a home office A stair landing in a coastal loft, a steel-framed window beside the travertine treads, the wall above the landing circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words the landing decides, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workHanging a painting in a stairwell or on a landing A coastal loft bedroom with a steel-framed window and a travertine floor, the wall above the headboard struck through with a black marker cross, an arrow from the handwritten words not above the bed, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workA painting in the bedroom: the easy room and its one problem An open studio door with a flat parcel wrapped in brown paper leaning beside it, the open doorway circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words nobody in between, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artBuying art direct from the artist: what changes A flat cardboard shipping box leaning against a wall, still taped shut, the wrapped parcel circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words ready to hang, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artBuying your first original painting A contemporary bedroom in daylight, a low upholstered bed along one wall, the empty wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words start here, not with the picture, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artHow to choose one painting when you like several A narrow entrance hall in a bright apartment, a tall window with slim black frames at its end, the near wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words you walk past this one, by Willem van der Krieken Living with the workHanging a painting in the hallway A cardboard postal tube on a studio table with a stretched canvas standing edge-on behind it, the canvas beside the tube circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words two objects, not two prices, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artOriginal or signed print: which should you buy?

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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