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Oils and acrylic paintings have the same
rules for framing.. No mats, NO glass, frame. A liner is OK if you like
liners. I personally don't like liners so I don't use them at all.
Pick a presentation that you like. If the painting is contemporary
then pick an appropriate frame and if the picture is an antique go for the
antique, baroque frame. BUT iT IS YOUR ART AND YOU CAN FRAME ANY WAY YOU
LIKE. It is very popular right now to mix periods so the world is your
option when it comes to framing. Just remember to protect the value of your
art.
It very popular right now to hang your art with no frame. You can do a
gallery wrap in the deep stretcher bars and have the painting wrap around
the bars (but remember this will do damage to the art so don't do this
method on valuable pieces) Or you can stretch on the deep bars so that
the art is on the top and the canvas is on the sides and then paint the side
a matching color or just plain black. This process is best done by the
artist of the work so that there is no doubt about damaging the value of the
art. And if the art is not "squared" you will have a serious
problem. You don't want to find out in 10 years that your artist's
work is now selling for $10,000.00 and you have reduced the value to "yard
sale" value because you ruined it in the framing process.
I am seeing a lot of artistic "junk" framing being done. And again
that is fine if that is what the artist chose because it is part of the art
presentation.
I frame to the art work. I do not care if my art work "matches" my
decor. I buy art that I like and I want it to look it's very best "Sunday go
to meeting" fashion. If I owned the Mona Lisa .....I would NOT CARE
IF IT MATCHED MY DRAPES.
If your acrylics were done on paper in a watercolor style then use
watercolor rules for framing.
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