We are pleased to announce that we have resumed selling our popular Fine Art prints on both high quality paper and inkjet canvas. So who needs The Uffizi or The Prado when you can see all of these great works on Vintage Poster Shop.
We have selected 125 of, what we like to think, are the finest or most influential works of art ever produced. Art of course is a fairly personal subject and one mans Mona Lisa is a load of Jackson Pollocks to somebody else. Therefore if your favourite artist or work of art is not here, we apologise for our artistic ignorance.
Here are five of my personal favourites to tickle the tastebuds:-
THE TOWER OF BABEL BY BRUEGEL
I love medieval art such as this. I saw this masterpiece in The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the fine details are quite stunning. Created in circa 1563 this is one of a number of works by Bruegel in our virtual collection.
LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE BY EUGENE DELACROIX
A work of art that defines a moment in History. Painted in 1830, this recreates The French Revolution with "Liberty" portrayed as a Goddess marching the suffering French people over the mound of ruling class corpses to freedom and unfortunately, in time, Emmanuele Macron.
THE HIRELING SHEPHERD BY WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT
A touching and innocent scene from 1851 that harks back to days before the onset of social media. The lucky shepherd gets to first base without being branded an "ist" of any type and has no worries that some bedsit warrior will see the picture and report him to the RSPCA for ignoring his sheep.
When first displayed at the Royal Academy, the work was accompanied by a quotation from "King Lear":- "Sleepest or wakest thou jolly shepherd?, Thy sheep be in the corn, And for one blast of thy minikin mouth, Thy sheep shall take no harm."
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS BY HIERONYMOUS BOSCH
I have no idea what 15th Century drugs Bosch was taking when he was creating this and his other amazing masterpieces. Predating Dali by some 500 years, he creates this surreal world of the bizarre. Especially, when considering the power of The Catholic Church at the time, his religious allegories of monks living up the backside of The Devil (something Chaucer alluded to as well), the work may be seen by some as blasphemous, but for the 15th Century corrupt Church, simplty replace it with the 21st Century Politicians and you will see the satire in this. I have stood for hours at The Prado, admiring this work and you will never see every little scene that Bosch created.
THE BURNING OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS AND COMMONS BY JWM TURNER
This one is probably just wishful thinking on my part or maybe the result of Boris having an illegal lockdown fireworks party. It is actually the true depiction of the fire, witnessed by Turner in October 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval Palace of Westminster. It was caused by The Chancellor of the Exchequer's office burning tally sticks who by default managed to suceed where Guy Fawkes had failed some 200 years earlier.
On a purely artistic note, although not being one of Turner's greatest works, there are clear similarities to the more famous later work The Fighting Temeraire.
