Comments on: Vintage Poster Art

Vintage Poster Art

hama7 — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:43:07 -0800

Vintage Poster Art.

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:41:23 -0800

I absolutely love sites like this! Thank you.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:50:49 -0800

good find, thanks. the site is huge! i wish the images were huge too, but this is still great.

By: arto

arto — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:00:52 -0800

Hey, they're not gonna *give* away a big JPG if they can sell you a $650 reproduction... Having said that, though, this site managed to touch upon almost all my vintage poster art obsessions: Mucha, Toulouse-Latrec, the rest of the Art Nouveau gang, Art Deco and Italian Futurism. If only they also had some Griffin/Mouse-school '60s psychedelia, and maybe some of that Russian Constructivist jive...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:29:56 -0800

Yeah, I also wanted to see 'em a little larger. But not enough to plunk down multiple hundreds of dollars. I especially wanted to be able to read the caption on this one. All I can tell is that it starts with "Mme." Anyway, good stuff, hama7.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:01:05 -0800

soyjoy, here's a slightly larger version of that image, from Yanef, another excellent (and huge) vintage poster site that does something great by giving descriptions and background information on the individual prints as well as on the artists. The illustration you like is one of many from the famous Parisian weekly magazine "Le Rire".

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:25:45 -0800

Thanks, taz - I knew there'd be some double entendre in the caption. It's "Mme Lona Barrison avec son manager et epoux" - "Mrs. Lona Barrison with her manager and husband." Obviously, the man in the foreground is both manager and husband, but the ambiguous construction of the phrase allows the option of assigning the three terms to the three figures. That's why they called him "No-Time Toulouse!" OK, they didn't, but they should've.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:27:25 -0800

I should point out that "husband" is made more ambiguous in French because it's really "male spouse." OK, I'm done. Really.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:47:30 -0800

Ach. You're a goofball, soyjoy. How do I say that in French?