Originally Posted by hotturnip

LOL. You people.

That round painting looks very 1980s. (By the way, a round painting is called a tondo. You learned something today.)

This is all pretty typical hotel art. That painting from the Hilton ATL is a bad Joan Mitchell imitation. She's a great painter of the 1950s. It IS actually a little bolder than most hotel art.

This stuff is most commonly chosen by decorators who just pick things to match the decor. Artists crank it out for this specific purpose, often following directives from the decorators--sometimes they charge by the square foot. But some high-end hotels have really serious artwork--the Park Hyatt Washington comes to mind.

I'd much rather have these abstract paintings and prints than cheesy posters of landscapes and still-lifes.