Our house has a lot of bare walls. I think that we don't know how to decorate. One thing that we've thought we could do is get some art to hang around. As it turns out, art is hard.
Recently Abby's elementary school held a student art exhibition. They've been creating art all year based on classical works. One of the artists they were emulating was Piet Mondrian. I knew of Mondrian from his strange paintings of primary-colored straight lines and boxes, but I did not know of anything else he had painted. When I saw his "Grey Tree" exemplar among the 2nd-grade recreations, I was struck by it in a way that I had not thought about art before.
Of course, I can't hang that painting in my house, and it seems kind of absurd to get a poster reproduction of the thing to hang in my livingroom over the fireplace. So apart from Abby's faithful reproductions of classical art, what can I put on display in the house?...
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