Framed Retro Digital Prints
Retrospective art carries our minds back to the culture of the past. It’s imagery acts as an indicator that gives us instant access to a whole host of cultural memories. The image of an old telephone instantly conjures up the aura of a time before digital. These epochs of culture are captured within framed retro digital artwork, allowing us to have instant access to the nostalgia of yesterday.
J.B Hall uses negative photographs of classic items, such as typewriters, to pull the viewer back in time through their cultural knowledge of consumer goods. Classic items are often used in framed retro digital art.
In Dazzling and Luxury, Erin Clark uses the images of chandeliers set into patterns that are associated with classic wallpapers. The print of the chandelier sits like a shadow upon the curved lines of the retro pattern, all in black and white, giving us a glimpse into the rooms of yesterday. The elegance of the past permeates from these examples of framed retro digital wall art.
It’s not just classic imagery that helps to facilitate our feelings of nostalgia. In the framed retro digital portrait, you find the use of typography employed to good effect. The use of type in it is similar to the psychedelic font associated so strongly with the 60s, instantly filling our minds with all the rock bands, films, and artwork that used this font.