Art prints: Even Better Than the Real Thing?
Each year it seems some museum or another has an art exhibition featuring masterpieces from artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera or Andy Warhol. Naturally, we promise ourselves that we'll go, that we'll soak in the impressionist/post-impressionist/cubist/surrealist air that undoubtedly permeates throughout the museum's galleries. After all, we tell ourselves, a trip to the "musée" will give us a hint of refinement and a touch of culture. Besides, it makes for good café chit-chat, and what better way is there to impress someone than with a lengthy discussion of Picasso's Blue period?
Unfortunately, many of us never make it to the latest exhibition. Thankfully, art prints exist for just such occasions. Art prints let us experience the wonders of Monet's gardens at Giverny or the sublimity of Dali's soft watches, all without having to leave the comfort of our homes.
Art prints are also one of the few means available of buying the pieces we admire - odd, considering that many works of art such as Dali's The Persistence of Memory, originally sold for a mere pittance. An art dealer purchased the surrealist masterpiece for $250 in 1931. The Wadsworth Atheneum could have bought it for $300 but decline the honor. A few years later, a private collector bought it for an unrecorded sum -although probably less than $500 -- and gave it to the Museum of Modern Art.
Today, it is considered priceless.
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