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.

Patchwork of fifteen paintings by Claude Monet: sunsets and misty mornings on the Seine and at Pourville, haystacks in the snow, Rouen Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Doge’s Palace and the Palazzo Dario in Venice, and water lilies

Oct 19, 2026

Claude Monet: A Life Chasing Light, From Le Havre to the Water Lilies

Claude Monet spent sixty years painting the same sea, river, field and garden, and never made the same picture twice. We followed him from the harbour of Le Havre to Argenteuil, Vétheuil, the Norma...

Patchwork of paintings by Gustav Klimt: the choir of angels from the Beethoven Frieze, Hygieia from Medicine, The Virgin, a birch forest, a tree-lined avenue, The Kiss and Lake Attersee

Oct 13, 2026

Gold and Nerves: A Walk Through Gustav Klimt's Vienna

Klimt never painted a self-portrait. Look at his pictures, he said, if you want to know me. So we did, and followed them through Vienna around 1900, address by address: the Ringstrasse, the golden-...

Oct 10, 2026

Brutalist Architecture: The Story of Raw Concrete, From Rubble to Instagram

What is brutalist architecture, and why is everyone talking about raw concrete again? The origins of the name, five features to recognise a brutalist building, famous examples from Marseille to Bos...

Nine self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh, painted mostly in Paris between 1886 and 1888, several of them in a straw hat

Oct 3, 2026

Sunflowers, Stars and a Yellow House: Van Gogh's Years in France

Van Gogh arrived in France at 33 with a palette still full of Dutch browns. Four years later, after Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise, he had become the painter we know. We follow him fr...

Oct 1, 2026

Bathroom Wall Art Ideas: Where to Hang It, What Size and Which Frame

Can paper survive the steam? Where to hang it, what size and which frame to choose, and the bathroom wall art ideas that work best, from Matisse blues to Roman frescoes.

Gallery wall of colorful framed posters, including the Flora fresco and a detail of Girl with a Pearl Earring, above a grey sofa and a white wooden table

Jun 21, 2026

How to Choose Wall Art for Your Living Room: Size, Layout and Color

Size, height, color, frames and layout: a practical guide to choosing wall art for your living room, with a sofa size chart and simple layouts that work.

Gallery wall of framed Posterscape posters, from a Matisse print to botanical and abstract art, in a bright living room.

Mar 19, 2026

What Is the Best Place to Buy Posters Online? 9 UK Stores Compared

What is the best place to buy posters online in the UK? The answer depends on what you are looking for. Some stores offer thousands of affordable designs. Others focus on a smaller, more carefully...

Flora fresco from Stabiae poster in an oak frame above a cream sofa in a bright living room

Mar 10, 2026

Wall Art Trends 2026: 10 Poster Styles Defining Modern Interiors

The 10 wall art trends of 2026, from Roman frescoes and Matisse to brutalist geometry and oversized prints, based on what our customers actually bought.

Eyes close-up of the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer.

Feb 24, 2026

Girl with a Pearl Earring: The True Story of Vermeer's Masterpiece

Who was the Girl with a Pearl Earring? The true story of Vermeer's most famous painting: a tronie rather than a portrait, a pearl that probably isn't one, a lost green curtain and a sale for two gu...

Henri Matisse late in life, cutting shapes out of painted paper at his table

Jan 16, 2026

Beyond the Scissors: The Wild Life and Simple Joy of Henri Matisse

A bored law clerk who found a box of paints at 20, a “wild beast” of colour, then an old man drawing with scissors: we follow Henri Matisse from northern France to Nice, and look at why his prints ...

Dec 21, 2025

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The Man Who Made Montmartre Immortal

If you walked into a cabaret in Paris during the 1890s, you probably would have spotted a short man sitting at a corner table. He’d have a sketchbook in one hand and a glass of absinthe in the othe...

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Dec 4, 2025

Living with Ghosts: Why Pompeii’s Walls Belong in Your Living Room

What Pompeii frescoes are, how they were painted, the four styles of Pompeian wall painting, the story behind Pompeian red, and how to live with Roman frescoes in a modern home.

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.

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

Victor Hugo

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

François Villon, Rondeaux

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

Paul Verlaine

“One must be absolutely modern.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“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

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

Franz Kafka

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

Marcel Proust

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

Alexandre Blok

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

Charles Baudelaire

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

Philip K. Dick

“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

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

Albert Camus

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

Franz Kafka

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

Jean Genet

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

Arthur Rimbaud

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

André Gide

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

Choosing and buying posters

Artists and masterpieces

Decorating ideas by room and occasion

The stories behind our designs

About this blog

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