Art for the Masses
1960's Crying Boy print
No brush strokes, no high price tags, just pure pop accessible to all!
Post war America is where it all began. New technologies in mass-production together with a new found affluence for the middle classes made it all too possible to fill the house with new everything. Well designed furniture and high art were now being produced on mass, heavily advertised in lifestyle mags and on the tellie for all housewives to see. And they all wanted a slice of the pretty new pie.
Art was one commodity affected by this. Previously only available to the rich and elite, people loved being able to have a decorative print hanging in their wallpapered homes. Think furry kittens, big-eyed crying children, grazing horses, bull-fighters and ships at sail. Anything was possible and it was all considered beautiful.
Now highly collectible, the once dime a dozen kitsch prints are increasingly becoming hard to find art-pieces. What goes around comes around. We’re all about that at Indigo Junction, and we even have a few beauties in store, for the housewives or otherwise!
1960's Ballerina print
