Ylva Skarp “art” lightboxes by IKEA. Screendump from image at livethemma.ikea.se
IKEA just announced these lightboxes with “art” by Ylva Skarp on a foil attached to the lightboxes. Price SEK 1295/approximately USD 145. The product is called FLOALT. Ylva Skarp and her images are popular in certain interior design circles and you often find her images in featured interiors.
Personally I don’t call this “art” or “calligraphy” which some do. Personally I would never pay SEK 1295 to IKEA for a lightbox with her images. Would you? I’ve always found her imagery overrated.
Images and “art” by Karolina Palmer. Screenshot from Leva&Bo.
The above “art”-images are sold via Leva & Bo, a magazine from one of Swedens daily newspapers. They are posters and art-cards and even pillow-cases. They are created by Karolina Palmer. Apparently they are very popular? I fail to understand why… How can images like these be called “art”? They look like something your child (or your friends child) would have created. And mass-produced to sell via the magazine. I would never pay for them. Nor would I ever put them on my walls at home.
Of course taste differs between different people, but some things that are sold as art, really shouldn’t be called art…. In my opinion.
I actually love art and am a real image-nerd, but these ones? No, thanks.
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