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.

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Where to start

Buying erotic artStart here if you are still deciding. Three articles on what you are buying, what it costs, and how to tell a studio from a print farm. How the work is madeOil on canvas, one painter, several weeks a canvas. What happens between a photograph and a finished painting. Living with the workYou have the painting, or you nearly do. Four articles on which room, how high, what size, and what arrives at your door. The women in Painted IdolsTwenty-four canvases, fifteen named women. The whole series, grouped by subject, with the ones painted more than once together. Prints and editionsThe €35 end of the studio. What a signed edition is, and how it differs from the canvas it came from.

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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.

Paint Your Idol

Break one open yourself.

The painting of the day sits behind a wall of stone, and you break it open a cube at a time. Everyone who plays gets 20% off any painting, and every canvas you play builds up credit for the shop.

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