All sorts of things can be bought via Amazon these days, including art it seems. Amongst the usual pop art style portraits, I found this Vintage Vinyl Canvas, which would look good hung over your record collection.
It features a vintage photograph of a 1970's record on a old, vinyl coated retro style belt driven deck. It is in striking colours, with the record being on green vinyl with a yellow label.
It costs £39 from WhoArtNow on Amazon.
Nice take on the vintage travel poster by Steve Thomas, replacing distant shores with distant planets.
Take your pick from all the planets in the Solar System (except Earth of course) all with a distinctive 30s feel, not a million miles from the deco-style posters once seen in train stations.
All images are available in varying sizes and are printed using UV-resistant archival inks. Prices start at just $11.95, which is just over £8.
Find out more at the Zazzle website
Via Switched On Art
We're very excited to see the launch of the BFI Printstore, especially with the prospect of being able to buy over 75,000 classic, cult and rare film images for very little money.
There aren't 75,000 online as yet – just 300 – but they are well worth looking at, featuring London Film Festival posters (dating back to 1957), BFI Production titles, European and Hollywood portraits from the 1920s and 30s, British Quota movies, Mitchell and Kenyon stills, the art of Lotte Reiniger and best of all (from our point of view), the classic Academy Cinema posters from Peter Strausfeld.
The one above (for Tonite Let's All Make Love In London) sells for as much as £800, so it's great that you can now pick it up from as little as £4.99 (although the price rises up to £199.99 for a super-sized 55-inch canvas option).
Check out the full range via the link below.
For the uninitiated, Emory Douglas was an active member of the Black Panther Party, responsible for the design of the movement as ‘Revolutionary Artist’, then Minister of Culture. And his work is currently being celebrated with an exhibition at Manchester’s Urbis – Emory Douglas and The Art of Revolution.
The exhibition highlights Douglas’ work for the party, including posters, cartoons and campaign pamphlets – and if you head down to the Urbis store, you can pick up prints of the man’s work, along with some rather cool Black Panther t-shirts and tote bags (sadly not available to buy online). More information on the Urbis exhibition can be found here.
DIY store B&Q wouldn’t be the first place I’d book for art and it is probably a bit of a stretch to refer to the prints they sell as art. But if you want something inexpensive to adorn your walls, the “Retro Balls” Canvas has a certain charm.
Measuring 60cm by 60cm, the black & white print has been reproduced on canvas. The women in the picture look as if they are from the 1950s and the slogan on their t-shirt reads “St Petersburg Charm School”.
It costs just under £20 and can be bought in store. Visit the B&Q website to take a closer look and for details of your nearest store.
If you have any interest in the 60s London art scene, you might want to get down to Robert Fraser: Groovy Curator on 27th January 2009 at London’s Barbican.
The event is a mix of talk and rare art films, the former being a Q&A with Harriet Vyner, the biographer of famed London art dealer Robert Fraser, the man responsible for introducing the London art world to Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley and Andy Warhol among others. Vyner’s book – Groovy Bob – tells Fraser’s story through the voices of those who new him best, which includes the likes of Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Dennis Hopper and Vyner herself.
Aside from the Q&A, four rarely-seen associated films are also showing – see over the page for full details of those. Tickets are available now, priced at £7.50.
