A few weeks ago I was brainstorming different ideas for where to go from here with The Public Domain Print Shop, and immediately an idea popped in my head that I’ve been obsessed with ever since: Artbounding.
If you’re not a hardcore Disney fan, this may make no sense to you. But the quick explanation is that, for various reasons, adults are not allowed to wear costumes into Disney’s amusement parks, so instead die hard fans have begun doing what has become to be known as “Disneybounding” where they wear normal everyday outfits inspired by their favorite Disney characters. And I thought, how fun would that be to do with vintage artwork!? Curate special mini collections of free art in the public domain that are a subtle homage to various classic stories?
And I knew exactly which story I wanted to start with: Beauty & The Beast.
So it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that I invite you to relax, pull up a chair as The Public Domain Print Shop proudly presents:
Beauty & The Beast: A Public Domain Print Shop Artbound
Dankvart Dreyer “Mill with Two Wheels, Jutland” 
Thomas Wilmer Dewing “Lady in Yellow” 
John Frederick Peto “Nine Books” 
Théodore Rousseau “The Forest in Winter at Sunset” 
Caspar Scheuren “Winter landscape with a castle” 
Franz Krüger “Rose im Glas” 
Monogrammist AG “Portrait of a riding horse” 
Rembrandt van Rijn “Head of an Aged Woman” 
Jacob van Oost the Younger “Bust of a Young Man” 
Harriet Backer “The Library of Thorvald Boeck” 
William Michael Harnett “Still Life with Pewter Candlestick and Clarinet”
I had such a good time curating this collection that I can’t wait to do more of these! So if you have a story you’d like to see me “artbound” in the future, let me know in the comments below!
NOTE: The images in this gallery are low resolution preview images only and therefore not suitable for printing, to download a HIGH RESOLUTION FILE of any of the images below for free, simply click on the desired image and you will be taken to the digital gallery archive where that image is hosted. Once there, you will be able to download a high resolution file of your image to print from.
If you are interested in learning more about The Public Domain Print Shop and how you can use artwork in the Public Domain to decorate your home FOR FREE CLICK HERE to read my previous blog post where I talk all about about it!
And if you decide to use one of these pieces of art in your home, I would love to see it! You can tag your image with the #CURATEHOME hashtag if you share it on social media, or email/DM me a picture of the art in your home!
Lastly, since it seems we’ll be doing this fairly regularly now what sort of art do you want to see more of in the next drop!? Let me know in the comments below!
Happy art my friends!
I love this!!! Reminds me of how Design Sponge used to do “living in” series–Royal Tenenbaums, Pride and Prejudice, etc. and pick out decor pieces that gave the vibe. This one is great!!