Wall Art Blog: Art Stories, Decorating Ideas & Poster Guides

This blog is written by the Posterscape studio, a French brand that designs its own posters and reproduces works by great artists. Here we tell the stories behind famous paintings, from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights to Van Gogh's years in France, share practical advice on choosing sizes, frames and layouts for each room, and answer a question we hear often: where to buy good posters online.

Abstract ArtJan 14, 2025

The Story Behind Abstract Art in Aotearoa and Beyond

Abstract art has intrigued and inspired art lovers for over a century, transforming the way we see and interpret creative expression.

Choosing and buying posters

Where to buy, which styles are popular right now and how to pick the right wall art for a room.

Artists and masterpieces

The lives of the painters and illustrators we reproduce, and the stories behind their best-known works.

Decorating ideas by room and occasion

Nurseries, cafés, calm corners and seasonal gifts: which posters suit which space, and why.

The stories behind our designs

Where our own poster collections come from: alphabets, unicorns, Roman frescoes, Sorrento lemons and more.

About this blog

Every article is written by the team that designs and selects our posters. When we write about an artist or a painting, we check dates and facts against museum sources, and our decorating guides stick to what you can actually do at home: real poster sizes, frame options and layouts that work in an ordinary living room, bedroom or nursery.

To see the posters themselves, browse our Posters & Prints collection.

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“One must be absolutely modern.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis Artificiels

“Perfumes, colors, and sounds respond to one another.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

Alexandre Blok

“Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness.”

Franz Kafka

“Tears fall in my heart as rain falls on the town.”

Paul Verlaine

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

Marcel Proust

“Art is born of constraints, lives of struggles, and dies of freedom.”

André Gide

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“Art hovers around the truth, but with the firm intention not to burn itself.”

Franz Kafka

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

Jean Genet

“If the world were clear, art would not be.”

Albert Camus

“Beauty is always strange. I do not mean that it is deliberately, coldly strange, for in that case it would be a monster off the rails of life. I say that it always contains a little strangeness, a naive strangeness.”

Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques

“Art is the reflection that the dazzled human soul gives back of the splendor of the beautiful.”

Victor Hugo

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

Philip K. Dick

“One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.”