Big To Small.....small To Big

Case by case....
I always thought the Mona Lisa was a big painting....and had no idea that Whistler's Mother was huge. I still really enjoy both.

Some of the faa customers have ordered both larger and smaller and I doubt it matters to them.

My Mona Lisa is bigger than most......but that is another story....

Roger,

Human instinct is for monoliths. The math to build the pyramids was obviously available
when the Egyptians began construction. What was not necessarily thought off back
then was the inner need of humans to reach for eternity through size. Size is
an irresistible force from within. We project that need onto our art. If the artist does not
do it the audiences do in the most primordial way. Look to Peter Rubens work by looking
at how he commercially succeeded across the royal courts of Europe in his day. Size
was his main selling point.

Now do we all as we age get over this "internal force"? Yes. But every time one
of us gets to Manhattan we are thrilled by skyscrapers. And then if you live in Connecticut
you can not wait to leave, it is New York after all.

I guess I have not answered your question directly....but small to big is more likely to sell.
The caveat is depending on wall space.

Dave

Dave,Just wait until the Connectticut folks see that remark,lol.

Getting back to this thread.

On a recent thread, the images posted were incredible...The details were phenomenal....Images that looked like a photos

When it was shown that the actual paintings were humongous...and at that size, all that can be seen, was a lot of squiggles


Which leads me to ask if the sole purpose for these very expensive original paintings were to create regular sized highly detailed printable images.

Or were the paintings intended to be viewed and appreciated at a distance, in a very large space.

Chuck Close's work, I believe can only truly be appreciated by viewing the ,painting starting at a distance, with the myriad of squares that make up the painting becoming discernible as one approaches the work


So in this vein, I'm curious to know.,if you work in this new digital world, how far do you " Zoom In", to work on small segments of the image at a time, in order to increase the "Detail" of the final goal, regular sized, printable image.?...And is something lost when the whole image is not viewed in it's entirety, during this creation process?



First this,question, with questions about tiny paintings being blown up to follow

I was surprised how small "The Wave" print really is and Dali's paintings.

What gives away the tiny paintings blown up large is the canvas pattern. I see this in the series of abstracts that frequently shows up on the recently sold page.

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I agree about Chuck Close - as you approach the work you enter it. Or at least get the feeling that you are shrinking down in size.

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Roger when I saw the penny next to one of your sculptures it surprised me. Without the size reference I would have though it bigger but it wouldn't matter to me in a print.