DecoWorld: Aerobleu Black and Blue
Here's one of my favorite Art Deco prints:
It's a perfect blend of geometric shapes, color, and typography which has just the right balance of modern and antique (the cigarette vs the monocle and cape).
I liked it so much I've got it hanging up in my dining room.
It's a perfect blend of geometric shapes, color, and typography which has just the right balance of modern and antique (the cigarette vs the monocle and cape).
I liked it so much I've got it hanging up in my dining room.
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You compelled me to do a search on the poster reproduction of a Franz Marc painting that hangs out on our livingroom wall. It's called "The Red Horses"and I've had it since 1985. I don't know how to share the image w/you because of a lack in understanding my computer. I love this print. I can almost feel these horses and smell the muskiness of their hair and skin. They are round and tempting. There is much,much colour variation w/in the landscape. It energizes me and moves me much. To show you how little I know about just about everything, I must confess I cannot recollect seeing any art deco until you shared your black and blue sophisticate. He's smooth, all right. And very cool-headed. He brings me calm and says,"slow down, take as much time as you need and do the job right the first time." My painting,on the other hand, says,"job? what job? slow down, take your time and you'll get it done eventually!" Maybe I should get a small print of this cool dude and hang him beside my horses? Then I'd find more balance.
Karen-
Check out allposters.com---it's an enormous clearing house of prints, fairly reasonably priced, with a wide array of sizes and framing options.
They have "Red Horses" and other Franz Marc prints.
It's strictly personal preference, but I tend to hang prints in my house based on general theme and color scheme. The dining room in which "Black and Blue" hangs is itself blue---we used a blue-tinted Venetian plaster in there. Thus, the painting goes well with the room.
The downstairs area is done in Art Deco style, with some slight variations (the small study is a little more old school, with a print of David's famous portrait of Napoleon crossing the Alps and another print called "Scotland Forever!" featuring a Napoleonic-era cavalry charge coming straight at the viewer). Thus everything sort of "fits".
allposters.com has many more Art Deco style prints as well; I'll be posting on the works of famed Deco poster artist A.M. Cassandre next which will have quite a few more examples, some of which might be very complementary with "Red Horses".
Thanks for commenting.
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