need help with artposters

[slah]

I´ve recently moved into a house with my wife and child, and now I´m looking for something to hang on my (our ) walls.

We have a chagall reproduction (one of his "love" works - done almost entirely in red)and 2 small green acidetched prints of frogs. This is nowhere near enough, so I figured I would find something online that would be nice to have framed on the wall.

I found these 3:

All done by Leslie Ragan.

Now I´m not a train freak, but I thought that they were brilliant and really oozes power, dynamics, speed, and so on - I just like the vibe they give. Also I really the art deco style of the drawings. Also I figured they would be a good contrast to the more mello stuff we allready had hanging on the walls

I showed them to my wife who promptly said : I don´t want trains in my living room - that´s silly!"


:disapointed::weep:

so now what to do - do any of you know of any art in the same vein - art deco with a powerful atmosphere who would be suitable to hang in a very.... grounded womans living room?

 

[BPI]

Browse through the V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) collections, many prints available. Let us know what you find! B.

http://www.vandaprints.com/category.php?catid=495

A quick link to get you going.

 

[Chrome]

www.deviantart.com

This community sells prints from their artists, there's tons and tons with extremely lovely pieces there. ^^

 

[Ritual]

Not at all in the same vein as the train pics you showed, but art deco stuff that your wife might like better would be anything by Alphonse Mucha http://images.google.se/images?hl=s...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQsAQwAA

Personally, I love his stuff.

 

[Einion]

If you don't know Allposters.com they'd be worth a browse I think.

Einion

 

[airhead]

One of my favorite airbrush artists:

Andrea Mistretta

* bit of trivea * each poster has a mini of the previous year's poster in it somewhere - eye reflection, bead reflection, etc.

 

[ScottRadom]

Well I think you should hang 'em anyway. They're cool enough. If you can hang 'em for a little while maybe your wife will like them? I know when my boy was born and I put my Scarface, Godfather, Evil Dead, and Fight Club posters up in his room my wife raised a stink. But Screw her, she can decorate the girls room in all that princess crap.

I say give it a shot. I like those pics a lot!

 

[Chrome]

Dunno why but I think those pictures would be perfect on a white wall over a creme sofa...

 

[green stuff]

Dunno why but I think those pictures would be perfect on a white wall over a creme sofa...

Because they share mutual colors, making up a limited palette which would suggest cohesion ... I so much need to paint again .

 

[philologus]

Not at all in the same vein as the train pics you showed, but art deco stuff that your wife might like better would be anything by Alphonse Mucha http://images.google.se/images?hl=s...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQsAQwAA

Personally, I love his stuff.

I do too. I thought he was considered "Art Nouveau" though? I could be wrong as I don't care much about the labels. And I'm getting older.

 

[Beelzebrush]

Tamara de Lempicka would probably fit the bill.... definitely chick-friendly stuff too

Also check - Cassandre (maybe a bit too ad-poster, also did nice trains etc), Erte, Edward McKnight Kauffer (really like this guy... superb ad posters). I can't think of any other atm but there's loads of other deco artists/designers worth checking out too Clarice Cliff, Eileen Grey who are both designer but you can probably get prints.

Good period of art.

 

[Einion]

Yeah, Mucha's stylised work is Nouveau, not Deco (he painted realistically also, and very well).

Einion

 

[Ritual]

Sorry, always get those two mixed up. My suggestion remains, though! :smile:

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I've enjoyed Thomas Hart Benton for quite a while.

http://images.google.com/images?gbv...ings&aq=1&oq=thomas+hart+b&aqi=g3g-m1&start=0

 

[slah]

Well I think you should hang 'em anyway. They're cool enough. If you can hang 'em for a little while maybe your wife will like them? I know when my boy was born and I put my Scarface, Godfather, Evil Dead, and Fight Club posters up in his room my wife raised a stink. But Screw her, she can decorate the girls room in all that princess crap.

I say give it a shot. I like those pics a lot!

You obviously don´t know my wife - She would cut off my man-fruits with a rusty, rabies infected razor, and then keep them in a jar on display just to make sure I woulddn´t misbehave like that again!

@ Ritual/Airhead: Thanks for the suggestions, I like both artists really (allthough kinda different), and I would hang them some other place if possible. The problme with the living room is that it atm. is in danger of becoming a bit too "quiet" - I want something with a bit more energy (maybe even machizmo) to off-set the sedated look it has right now.

To the rest: Thanks for the suggestions on sites, but I allready knew most of them (except the V&A), and have browsed a lot through them - I just got lazy


I have since suggested:

Ugly - and a movie-poster. I don´t want movie-posters!

Too depressing!

Looks good with the blue and red, but I don´t want planes on my walls!




It´s a plane AND ugly!

"Insanely ugly" was the verdict on this one

So further help would be very appreciated !!!!

 

[breadhead]

Friends of ours have this on their wall, not art deco really but looks pretty cool.

Maybe some Lautrec?

 

[Sand Rat]

Hmm. Too bad its Art Deco posters you're looking for - else I'd be shamelessly plugging my photos.