High Resolution Vintage Art and Fine Art by the download |

30 Oct 2008, 10:49pm
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High resolution vintage art and fine art by the download.

Being a lover of vintage art and needing vintage images to create my pastiches, as well as needing images for Vintage Mural, I found I had a hard time finding places to buy them in resolutions high enough for printing. Yes, they have places where you can buy a CDROM of vintage art (vintage travel posters, vintage labels, vintage seed packs, vintage tobacciana, etc) or the masters (like Monet or Van Gogh), but the images were nowhere near high resolution enough for printing. Further, the usage restrictions were so numerous they’d fill a tome fatter than War and Peace. Using one of these images for anything would make you look warily over your shoulder, worrying if you’d be sued by an army of attorneys for sending one as a gift print to your aunt Molly. In fact, commercial use of any kind is frowned upon and “strictly prohibited.” Even perfectly legal derivative works were “strictly prohibited” and the threat of God Himself descending from the sky for a scolding (not to mention hellfire and brimstone) felt like a very real possibility. And all this for images that were legally public domain, didn’t exceed 1200 pixels and weren’t even printable. Wow.

Still determined to find public domain fine art and vintage art I could actually print from, I visited the stockhouses, who did have many pieces I wanted but the prices were extremely high (over $500.00 each (sometimes *way* over) for the size and resolution I wanted) and the licensing fees and restrictions gave me a stomachache. So I decided to make these images available without usage restrictions, and in high resolution. In other words, I created the exact kind of site I had long looked for but quickly learned didn’t exist, Vintage Art Download.

Vintage Art Download

Vintage Art Download is not only an unprecedented resource for vintage or altered artists, but also for printers of canvas, framers, sellers of fine art prints, graphic designers, logo designers, web designers, historians, collectors, art enthusiasts, teachers, entrepreneurs, decoupagers, crafters, scrapbookers, ad agencies, marketing companies, jewelry designers…you get the idea. Most of the images are in 300 dpi (some even go up to 2400 dpi) and will print out easily at 8 x 10. For larger sizes, we urge customers to contact us. We have clients all over the world who use the art for many different applications, and the response has been overwhelming. The idea of truly high resolution images with no usage restrictions, people tell me, is so freeing and unique, that they love shopping there, and we get an unusually high level of repeat and word-of-mouth customers.

People who really care about getting exceptional quality prints will love the site. Here are some of the different types of images we have available, and we’re always adding new art constantly: