Van Caspel did his designing in oils and always used a model. Yet his posters cannot be called simply reproductions of paintings, nor are they in any way naturalistic, for he simplified and stylized his figures into large basic shapes set out in flat colours with strong contours . Clearly this is the case in this design for an Amsterdam camera shop with a classically-rendered photographer setting the focus of her field camera. However, there is something more going on here than just flat colors and simplified shapes. It is an image that is at once blatantly direct and subtly ornate, a hybrid which yields a redux Art Nouveau whose Byzantine characteristics, though wile not approached with timidity, do not overpower the product which they are advertising. A superb example of complimentary adversity. Rare.
Giclee Prints are printed on heavy matte finish 180gsm German art paper using the finest Canon archival inks. Entry Level Art Prints are printed on 250Gsm satin paper. Quality Frame with a single white matboard and Acrylic glazing.
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Stretched Canvas is stretched by hand over 1.5" thick pine bars and printed on cotton poly matte finish canvas. Each is canvas hand coated with Hahnemuhle UV/Archive coating, these are Swiss quality best in industry canvases.
All our images are digitized from the original negative , printed and assembled in Switzerland to museum standards by our master printer.
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Artwork in this collection is from our own archives or licensed archives. Reproduction rights are reserved by the copyright owner. All of our prints' sizes refers to paper size. Our image sizes vary from image to image and respect the original ratio of the original poster. This means that there is a varying white border on all sides to keep the original ratio true to the original.
