Cornflower & Mid-Blue Wall Art
Cornflower, Prussian, sky and sea. The blue plates and paintings: Hokusai's Great Wave and Hiroshige's rain, which made Prussian blue famous; Monet's water lilies and Van Gogh's irises; Audubon's blue jay, eastern bluebird and belted kingfisher; the cornflower, the blue morning glory, the gentian and the iris from the botanical plates; and the ocean, arctic, lagoon and teal colourways of the abstract line.
118 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
Blue is the easy colour
Blue goes with nearly every wall — white, cream, grey, green, even the rising browns — which is why it's the most-hung colour in art. On a cornflower or powder-blue wall, stay tonal (a Hiroshige, an arctic abstract); on a warm neutral, a Prussian-blue Hokusai is the single strongest note you can add.
The Prussian-blue prints
In the 1830s a newly imported synthetic pigment, Prussian blue, let Hokusai and Hiroshige print skies, seas and rain in a saturated blue no earlier Japanese print had — the Great Wave, Red Fuji's sky, the sudden shower on the bridge. They're the original blue wall art and still the best.
Practical notes
Natural oak frames warm a blue print; black sharpens it. The full-bleed paintings and the abstracts also come on canvas. Three or more prints take 10% off; free worldwide standard shipping.