Can little ones appreciate great art? Well, it doesn't hurt to get them started. While we love all the great work we find on Etsy, we also like the idea of hanging masterpieces in our child's room. They are vibrant, bold, and if they're fascinating for us as adults, imagine all that can be seen in them through a child's eyes.
Of course, art is always a matter of personal taste - but here are a few of our picks for a child's room...
- The Tree of Life - Gustav Klimt, $39.99.
- Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh, $19.99.
- The Great Wave at Kanagawa - Hokusai Katsushika, $24.99.
- Water Lilies - Claude Monet, $19.99.
- The Dog - Pablo Picasso (there's also an owl and a camel done in the same vain that would make a nice set), $25.99.
- Sky and Water - M.C. Escher, We all keep hearing about black and white contrasting pictures and flashcards for infants, so why not? $17.99.
- Les Oiseaux - Henri Matisse, $119.99.
- Vergesslicher Engel - Paul Klee, $59.99.
- Breakfast in Bed - Mary Cassatt, $7.99.
- Sky Above the Clouds - this is one of our favorite O'Keeffe's, $24.99.
(Re-Edited from 2007-9-4 - CB)
A 4-year old insisted on buying an old Cezanne print of ours at a garage sale this summer - she absolutely had her heart set on it.
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My son had a large print of Starry Night in his nursery as a baby and when we took him to see the real thing at MoMA at age two, he recognized it. I absolutely love hanging the masters in kid's rooms.
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At the National Gallery, years ago, a four-year-old dashed past us, planted herself in front of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark, then turned back to her parents and announced gleefully, "It's my favorite!"
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Picasso also did a flamingo in the same vain...IKEA sold them framed awhile back for like $9.99 a piece. I have the dog and love it.
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My nursery, which is being decorated in a birds & butterflies theme, will have several Charlie Harper prints of birds on the walls. I'm a big Charlie Harper fan, so the signed prints will always have a place in my home, even after the baby's outgrown the nursery.
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