Trip.. What? Triptych and Subway Art

I am so doomed. I have ordered my canvases for wall art and was waiting for my order to come when I realized I miscalculated the number of canvases I need to buy. Remember that my intention is to have a wall art with a quotation about home? Please check here.

This is one lesson learned. We have to know exactly what kind of wall art we want to display. If I wanted to follow the image shown here, which means that whatever display I want to show comes in more than one canvas and knowing that I am drawn to an uneven number of canvases, I should have minimum of three canvases, then by all means the wall art I want to display is called triptych.

Wikipedia explains that triptych is a work of art (usually panel painting) that is divided into three sections, being the middle one is bigger that the other two. The triptych form arises from early Christian art and was a popular standard format for altar painting from the Middle Age onward.

Source here. Sagrada Familia con ángel músico, Santa Catalina de Alejandría, Santa Bárbara, 1510-1520, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

In a modern world, Francis Bacon created some of the most popular triptych.

Source here. Triptych, May - June 1973. 1973. Oil on canvas

Of course I am more into some fancy wall art like ones shown below:

Source here

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I learn from here, is that if I want to create a triptych, unity as a principle of design, should be applied to triptych. That means that all panels have to share some properties: color scheme, repeated elements or variations of elements, common theme, background or anything that will make these three panels look like they belong together.

Meanwhile, what I wanted to be put onto the canvas is actually this quote :

Source here

People! This is called subway art. Shame of me for not knowing this sooner. This subway art has been a craze all over the globe and I just know that it has a name. I was fooled by the wood planks and the brush stroke which make this image appears like a three different planks put into one.

Subway art which is subway signs turn into arts have that modern feeling that I am sure will blend well with some major part of our house interior. Images below are some of the subway art that inspire me.

source here. Remember my brick wall? Although we have hung our wedding photo on our brick wall, this image will remind me that if we want to stick to eclectic or modern look, someday we might be ablt to replace the photos with the subway art

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Source here. Don't you just love the modern feel from this image?

So there you go. You have triptych and you have subway art. I have to make up my mind which one of those two I would like to create for the wall art in our house.

Upon deciding, I just realized I bought the canvases in the wrong quantity. Now we have the follwing :
- 2 pieces of 20 x 20 cm canvases which I intent to make the kids' hand prints (Inspired by Becky Higgins. You can see more of it here)
- 2 pieces of 30 x 30 cm canvases. As I write this, I totally forget my intention of buying canvases in this dimension.
- 2 pieces of 60 x 40 cm canvases which I intent to make 'In This House' quote into three pieces. Yes, I missed 1 piece when I ordered.

Well, I guess I will work on the kids' hand prints first before moving on to the triptych or the subway art.