What is the 1st bit of art you remember?

Pensivepuca

What is the 1st image of art that you remember?

I mean in the traditional painting/drawing/children illustration way, but if you remember music or a tv show fair enough

Mine would have to be an image of Van Gogh's chair, a print hung in out hall way since I was small, and along the stair wall was Constable's horses.

http://www.jackdavisart.co.uk/July08/Chair.jpg
http://www.thelilypad.co.uk/graphics/haywain.jpg
http://www.grahamdragon.co.uk/conwhi.jpg

The 1st children's book that I remember would be Peter Rabbit and The Tiger Came to Tea.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14838/14838-h/images/peter11.jpg
http://www.thetigerwhocametotealive.com/img/tiger2.gif

What about you?

Mocha Joe

I did some pretty abstract art in excrement on the wall when I was quite young.

mike65

Living room painting - Two horses galloping across a plain under a dark sky.

Ihatecuddles-old

All my creations had the sun drawn up in the top corner. Sometimes he had a smiley face.

Ihatecuddles-old

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

seven_eleven

Genuinely can't remember my first bit of picture art, because I never really had an interest in it that much. But I remember being introduced to classical music and orchestra at a very young age.

Can't quite remember the exact group but the cd had red soldiers or something on the front of it, maybe a british flag too.

First books I read were probably the ladybird books.

http://i.imgur.com/P0o156s.jpg I used to have loads of them!

Amerika

As a young lad going through puberty, Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" holds fond memories.

Pensivepuca

Amerika wrote: »

As a young lad going through puberty, Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" holds fond memories.

You showed signs of good classy taste from a young age then :P

mathie

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

Van Goghs "Blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor"

Rayne Wooney

BeerWolf

Mocha Joe wrote: »

I did some pretty abstract art in excrement on the wall when I was quite young.

Should've followed up with that, since that's what all abstract art is.

Pile o' ****s.



As with regards to what I remember when I was a toddler.... oriental south east Asian art pieces of a wide variety - nothing in particular. Still got them.

Aglomerado

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

This?

For me it was Van Gogh's Sunflowers, in the news because it fetched a record price at auction.

The Backwards Man

A picture of J F fcuking K

Pensivepuca

I do remember Roald Dahl fondly as I grew up too, with the illustrations by Quentin Blake.

9959

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

Not really, perhaps the dog was unwell and the blonde girl was having some difficulties coming to terms with the situation. Will this do?

Pensivepuca

I must say, pictures of the Divine Mercy and Mary were in the living room too, the eyes followed you no matter where you were.

Aglomerado

Sometimes a triptych with JFK on one side, Jesus on the other and a mirror in the middle!

Pensivepuca

Aglomerado wrote: »

Sometimes a triptych with JFK on one side, Jesus on the other and a mirror in the middle!

In my house it was Jesus, mirror and then wee Pope John Paul, alongside a statue of Mary and Padre Pio on the mantle piece beside the primary school pictures.

Miss Lockhart

The Gleaners by Millet.

Don't know how it came to hang in our house. My family have zero interest in art, it's the only picture of any kind in the house. They don't even know what it is

WindSock

A nice oil painting style picture of Santa nestled in a snowy Victorian street scene on a tin of something.

hanlonm

Going to dublin museum when i was a child!:)

RikkFlair

Probably my own creation that won me a Community Games medal. Still living off the back of that success :cool:

:pac:

TheLastMohican

A used nappy (Damien Hirst style) without the formaldehyde

The Snowman storybook.
The first time I understood a story by myself.

Tabnabs

Granny's old Sacred Heart of Jesus hanging on the wall and me thinking, WTF is wrong with him?? :eek:

http://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/enthronement-4.jpg

BraziliaNZ

This

http://artandscienceintherenaissance.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/art5.jpg

The detail in that painting is amazing. It was in a book in my family home. It's mesmerising to me still, I don't even know why, I'm no art critic.

Pensivepuca

^ ah yes, you can see the artists self portrait in the mirror at the top. Lovely painting.

castletownman

A botched attempt at assembling a barbecue that became a phenomenon in the modern abstract art scene

o1s1n

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

This

http://artandscienceintherenaissance.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/art5.jpg

The detail in that painting is amazing. It was in a book in my family home. It's mesmerising to me still, I don't even know why, I'm no art critic.

Worth seeing if you're ever around The National Gallery, London.

One thing to note, it's one of those paintings which you expect to be a lot bigger than it actually it, it's tiny.

Pensivepuca wrote: »

^ ah yes, you can see the artists self portrait in the mirror at the top. Lovely painting.

It's actually two people standing in a doorway, apparently one may be Van Eyck - I've also heard that it might be a priest/witness of the ceremony.

Funny thing about that, the signature over the mirror translates as 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434' - pretty much artistic graffiti

Weevil

A picture of St. Martin de Porres

Los Lobos

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, eight years old, listenin to the record with my old mans big fcuk off headphones on.
Thats the first thing came to mind anyway.

wendell borton

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

The Gleaners by Millet.

Don't know how it came to hang in our house. My family have zero interest in art, it's the only picture of any kind in the house. They don't even know what it is

Another Millet the angulus and a picture of jesus that used to freak me out because his eyes seemed to be always following you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angelus_(painting)

ViveLaVie

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Actually I remember something hanging in our sitting room, it was a blonde girl crying at the wall and a dog on the floor.

Anyone any ideas?

Me too. Had it upstairs.

Burky126

Aglomerado wrote: »

This?

Sure sign of someone who grew up in Ireland.I think everyones Nan has that in their house!

donegal_road

RikkFlair wrote: »

Probably my own creation that won me a Community Games medal. Still living off the back of that success :cool:

:pac:

same here, I made it to the finals in Mosney.. I got silver

First art I was aware of was Van Gogh's Stary Night. It was on a book cover we had in the house, I remember being a bit scared of it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg

Hooked

This bloody thing!!!!!

Miss Lockhart

Hooked wrote: »

This bloody thing!!!!!

Your dog is gorgeous.

goose2005

Amerika wrote: »

As a young lad going through puberty, Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus" holds fond memories.

i remember having an encyclopedia with Manet's "Olympia" in it http://fromfuturetopast.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/corrige-olympia-manet1.jpg

BraziliaNZ

o1s1n wrote: »

Worth seeing if you're ever around The National Gallery, London.

One thing to note, it's one of those paintings which you expect to be a lot bigger than it actually it, it's tiny.



It's actually two people standing in a doorway, apparently one may be Van Eyck - I've also heard that it might be a priest/witness of the ceremony.

Funny thing about that, the signature over the mirror translates as 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434' - pretty much artistic graffiti

I imagined it to be about the size of 2 doors!
I didn't know it was here, I might check it out at the weekend, would be amazing to see it in real life finally.

This picture of Machiavelli was in some History book I had in school, the image has been seared in my brain for some reason

http://www.the-spearhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Santi_di_Tito_-_Niccolo_Machiavellis_portrait_headcrop.jpg

Not that it's even that interesting!