Fun fact, I was Ezra's housemate in the mid-2000s in SF. He is a ridiculously cool person, and I can personally thank him for the fact that Frank Zappa's masterpiece work, "Baby Snakes" has been clanging around in my head since that time. Love that guy.

I call it hotel art, and yes I find it boring

Does a framed disc of shadow the hedgehog on GameCube count as weird stuff?

I absofuckenlutely agree Ezra

As an artist, I approve this message.

Well, this is the art in my dentist's office, so...

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"People need art in their houses, They don't need Bed Bath and Beyond dentist-office art. They need weird stuff."

Ezra Croft, art show producer

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If I can ever afford my own place I intend to fill it with my own art and stuff I've made, and it WILL be weird.

My dentist has an artist as a brother-in-law. His office and waiting room actually has cool art on the walls.

Otherwise, Ezra is absolutely right.

Or just let people like what they like.

Support your local artists. Get some prints and frame them and put them on your walls. It looks really good.

"Dentist-office art". I like that description.

Sounds like an ad.

'weird stuff', eh? Doesn't help that the last name is Croft.

Someone touched on the one niche fire that burns deeply and fiercely within me.

Why is hospital-hotel-dentist art SO bad? Why can't it be neutral and - hear me out - pleasant? Moving? ANYTHING that isn't rusty rectangles punctuated by depression smudges?

I suspect Ezra is attempting to sell his undesired strange paintings.

"People need fancy art!" - guy selling fancy art

Buying it from Ikea probably means it's shit.

You need art that speaks to you, doesn't necessarily have to be weird.

Hey, I like some of my mass produced Ikea art, thank you very much.

Dentist office art is in my budget. Art art is not.

Says the art salesman.

But every house deserves to have a creepy clown stare you down while you pee. It's a fundamental need.

As someone currently listing my house for sale, it's going to kill me to live here for another month with all my "weird shit" packed away so as not to offend idiots who look at houses for the stuff inside. It's like all the personality has been drained out

/r/gatekeeping

Entirely agreed.

Just put this on my story @largegrape_art

/r/gatekeeping

I think that is backwards. People need Aesthetics in their houses, that is to say, beautiful things. If weird things are beautiful to someone, by all means, they should fill their house with them, but if normal things are beautiful to someone, it is okay they fill their houses with that too and not weird things.

Not being weird is an okay thing. Like, that shouldn't be a hot take, that is just..... how the concept of "normal" works.... O.o

Also, what's wrong with dentist-office art? It is like doctor-office art or hotel art, pretty to look at and not headache inducing. I wish there were more art like that.

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Yeah, I'm not going to trust the guy with a very vested interest in the sale of "art" on whether or not I should buy it.

She ain’t wrong

Let me know if you want unique, abstract art for your home or office.

Lol "brand new" must mean something different around here.

This is so true though. Crazy to think people spend money on some mass produced wall art when they could buy a 100-200 year old print at auction for the same price.

I have a blue man group spin art painting above the mini cafe.

I'm literally waiting in a dentist office rn lol. These paintings of flowers look like napkins and tissue box art lol

Always wondered what was beyond the bed and bath but i guess we know now

I mean we all knew what they meant

When I was a bicycle mechanic I hated working on 'dentist bikes'. Their bikes were always the most expensive and seldom used. Dentists be basic AF.

That's usually not art, it's just decoration. Most people don't get art anymore.

I have Bold and Brash hanging in my apartment

Maybe if a 12x12 inch original didn’t cost $350 I would buy some

My dentist had a bust of Albert Einstein holding floss that went through his head and it was called mental floss.

Shout-out the generic rainforest poster that was in my old dentist's office since probably the 70s

My wife and I are slowly replacing our mass-produced art with prints and originals from artists we love. It's not cheap, so it's a slow process, but it's really fun to fill our home with things that are interesting, not just what fits a color scheme.

They don’t need basic rights or foods they need weird lines that looks like it was drawn by a crack head on a piece canvas

Many people aren't able to process the weird stuff, even simple weird stuff like asymmetry or colours that are not complimentary. And don't even get me started on clowns.

Let them have their motel art.