Have you ever been to an art gallery and wished that you could buy an oil painting on canvas that looked like the real thing? Many galleries offer reproductions on canvas, but more often than not the quality is inferior and doesn’t do the original any justice. This is especially true of a masterpiece, such as the ever popular Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, or Starry Night by Van Gogh. Aside from that, keepsakes at an art gallery are usually priced higher than they should be, as you certainly couldn’t start a collection without spending a fortune. Luckily though, there is another way.
Thanks to technology, there are now shops that carry exact duplicates of priceless masterpieces and you can buy them online so that you never have to leave your home. Keep in mind though, that there is a difference between a machine duplicated print and a real art reproduction on canvas. The only way to truly get an exact reproduction is to buy one that was hand painted by a talented artist. Sure, a machine can copy every pixel, line by line, until it has recreated the masterpiece. But let me ask you something, shouldn’t a painting, created at the hand of a master, be reproduced by hand as well?
Sabrina fair,
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lilies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
—John Milton (1608–1674)
A legitimate art reproduction on canvas shouldn’t cost you any more than a few hundred dollars, and if you buy it at the right place, you can find them for under one hundred dollars. You can buy literally any masterpiece from before the Renaissance and beyond. It doesn’t matter if you want your own Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Degas, Monet, or Dali, they are all there for your taking. Even better, you don’t have to pull an Ocean’s 12 stunt and steal it from a museum. In fact, you can start your own gallery at a tenth of the cost for what it would take to buy an original!
Although you might not have the original masterpiece in your home or gallery, I promise you that your friends and family will not know the difference. If you mix in a painting like The Last Supper with something more modern, like an Andy Warhol painting, then you’ll have a quality collection that spans centuries. Even if you don’t appreciate the Renaissance period, you can submit your own work of art in order to have a custom painting created at the same price. It doesn’t matter how obscure your favorite pieces may be, you can get an original art reproduction on canvas for less than one hundred bucks.
Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins lay on the King!
We must bear all. O hard condition,
Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
But his own wringing! What infinite heartsease
Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!
And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshipers?
What are thy rents? What are thy comings-in?
O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
What is thy soul of adoration?
art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
Creating awe and fear in other men?
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Another option for those of you that paint, is to create your own oil painting and then have it reproduced so that you can sell it in your shop. If you want to create your own reproductions, then use these collections as a way to learn from and study the masters of art. With your own painting by Raphael, you can study his lines and see how he shades and blends colors. There is no better teacher than a thousand year old painting created by one of the great masters of our age.
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