It's all in how you see it

This weeks Spin Cycle is about art. Anything about art. As most of you know I can go on and on about my painting endeavors but for the sake of your sanity I won't. Today I think I'll talk about a couple of pieces I have hanging in my office and why I think they go together.

One day a couple of years ago JR and I were going through a box of old Life magazine that his parents collected from the 1940s to the 1960s. We have been faithfully hauling around this box for really no good reason. It's not like there aren't plenty of copies of these same issues elsewhere in the world we just like them. They tell a story about a moment in time. As quasi historians this story in time thing appeals to us. Yeah, we are just weird that way.

Another way that we are weird has to do with this Campbell's soup advertisement.

Craptastic photo taken with my phone

I fell totally in love with this as did JR. I'm not sure if it was the colors or the symmetry or the Pop Art feel of it but we knew immediately that we needed to frame it. We truly adore it and am now leafing through all the other magazines to find any other gems.

Then wandering through an art museum gift shop (don't ask me which one because I tried all morning to remember. It was either the National Gallery or the Chicago art museum or I'm not really sure but I really think it was the National Gallery.) as I am want to do and I came across this...

It is a wall plaque. I thought that it just like our Campbell's soup picture so I bought it. It was cheap...something like $12 but I really thought they would go together so nicely.

Maybe it is just how I see it but I think they look a lot alike. I think they go together like;
beer and peanuts
Abbott and Costello
wine and Me

Love,
M

This is my Spin for this week. Gretchen has taken over the reins from Jen and is I'm sure making Jen proud. Me...I'm lame. I only write a Spin every couple of weeks or even less. Click on the cute button to read what others have to say about art.