Learn More About Art Posters

Art lovers are very lucky in being able to buy prints and posters of just about every artist from the past and the present. It's easier than ever, with so many online companies specializing in art posters, to get just the one you want. All the famous and not so famous are featured and every art movement from cave painting to today's minimalism is represented. Posters make great presents too, making great art affordable for everyone.

Fine art portraits are very popular, as in Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, especially in vogue since the release of the film of the same name. Pre-Raphaelite paintings are also available as art posters, such as the Lady of Shallot by Waterhouse. For more modern tastes, there is Gustav Klimt and Roy Lichtenstein. Religious pictures form some of the most popular images. Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment are very powerful. Raphael is also for sale, with various depictions of the Madonna. Admirers of Still Life can buy art posters in differing styles, from Paul Cézanne to Pablo Picasso.

The history of art can be traced in its various movements and developments. Art posters are ideal in showing the Art Nouveau and Art Deco artists of the periods. The Impressionist painters are much sought after, especially the works of Monet, Degas and Renoir. Later movements, such as Surrealism, are also available. The most popular surrealist is probably Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte and Joan Miro are fine examples too. Art posters suit the Abstract Art style, with the vibrant colors and geometric forms. Popular artists in this genre include Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.

There are also a number of parodies, which have fun with famous paintings through the ages as spoof art. Most people have seen the Mona Lisa by da Vinci with a dubious looking cigarette hanging from her mouth. Dali famously put a moustache on her too. Raphael's Angels can be seen enjoying a glass of beer and Beavis and Butthead take their places in the iconic American Gothic by Grant Wood. Homer Simpson is seen standing on the bridge in Munch's The Scream.

If you think that posters belong on the wall of a college student apartment, they can be upgraded by framing them. Office spaces can also be made more interesting by hanging an art poster and clients will think you have class. Leave Beavis and Butthead to the student collector, however.