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Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
- narrationbox 6y agoDo you have an API? (See Pexels and Unsplash if you need inspiration) Would be really useful for wallpaper changing scripts.
- chrischen 6y agoThough the content is free, having all public domain art amassed is a useful service and I too would like an API. I'd even pay for it!
- rememberlenny 6y agoSome of my favorite posters are open source NASA posters. Find them here: https://artvee.com/?s=nasa&post_type=product&product_cat=0 https://artvee.com/?s=nasa&post_type=product&product_cat=0
- marc_io 6y agoNASA's direct link to the entire collection: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
- pugworthy 6y agoWas just going to post this too. Also the SpaceX travel posters are online as well.
- ur-whale 6y agoOH, thank you this, amazing art!
- saberworks 6y agoThe art is beautiful and the site is nice. I love the size of the thumbnails!
- jamil7 6y agoCool project and the site design is really nice. It seems a little slow for me though, it might just be getting hit by HN right now.
- muhammadusman 6y agowow, this is great! thanks for making this
- simonsarris 6y agoThis is great and I'd be happy to add it to my list of High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds[1], where I catalog sites like these, but where are the images coming from? There seems to be no information. For example for the American artist Charles Courtney Curran, Artvee has three: https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/ https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/ This is more than NY Public Library with only one: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=Charles+Courtney+Curran https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C... And the Art institute of Chicago, with also only one: https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran (note there are no duplicates among these galleries!) And the National Gallery, with zero: https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Charles%20Curran https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Cha... And the Smithsonian, which has none of the above but does have his photomechanical prints: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran& https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran... Wikipedia, by the way, has several not seen in any of the above. So I'd like to know where you are sourcing these. [1] https://simonsarris.com/art-collections https://simonsarris.com/art-collections
- exolymph 6y agoI echo this call for source info. Also, Simon, I didn't know that you maintained such a resource! Thank you, I will be using it.
- voltagex_ 6y agoDo you have any better way of looking for sources other than Google Image search? Mostly I found the Charles Courtney Curran images on Pinterest, eBay (!) and several Chinese "art reproduction" sites. No closer to working out where it was sourced from.
- mattkevan 6y agoRawpixel also have an extensive collection of public domain art if you’ve not come across them before https://www.rawpixel.com https://www.rawpixel.com
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- Lorin 6y agoWish I could search by artist's region. Eg. Canada, Japan, etc.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoSomething isn't right with the resolutions: Standard, 1164 x 2400px JPG, Size: 3.55 MB, 300dpi Max Size, 1940 x 4000px JPG, Size: 9.63 MB, 300dpi They can't be both 300dpi (unless your dpi settings doesn't have anything to do with the physical size of the original artwork, in which case why bother with dpi settings at all?).
- blacksmith_tb 6y agoOne possibility is that the level of compression is different in the two jpgs, that could account for a lot of filesize difference. But really dpi doesn't mean much when you know the pixel dimesnions[1]. 1: http://www.pacenterforphotography.org/2018/08/dpi-ppi-are-meaningless-in-the-digital-world/ http://www.pacenterforphotography.org/2018/08/dpi-ppi-are-me...
- shmulkey18 6y agoReally nice. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service which print such images as posters at a reasonable price?
- mstj 6y agoI'm curious about this as well. If no service exists, does anyone happen know what types of printers work best for these? I'd be willing to try it myself if I knew where to start.
- mattkevan 6y agoI sell prints of public domain art on Etsy. Until the pandemic I produced the prints myself, but now I use print-on-demand companies like Printful or Gooten. There are similar companies out there, but these are a good balance of price and quality.
- kevbam 6y agoI have a store that sells vintage propaganda posters primarily, we have expanded into vintage travel and health over the last few years. https://propagandaposterstore.com/ https://propagandaposterstore.com/
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- Tarsul 6y agoWow, fantastic website! Would be perfect if the filenames of the pictures had the name of the picture + author in it.
- julianeon 6y agoThis is great, thanks. Incidentally, for people who are looking for an image to illustrate your article, something beyond the usual suspects of guy at open office or girl w laptop and plant, I like embedded pins from Pinterest. Very easily discoverable and you can find plenty that's unique there. But for a while at least, I may switch to using these images.
- mdoms 6y agoThis is really, really nice but unfortunately the website is too slow to be usable right now.
- worik 6y ago"Discover Classical Art" it said. I entered "porn" in the search box I got nothing. Puzzled...
- 082349872349872 6y agoTry "Zeus" or "Jupiter" for ancient furry. Also, rich renaissance italians didn't just invite dates upstairs to see their etchings, they had statuary. A plausible theory explaining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Baths_(Pompeii)#Erotic_art_in_the_Suburban_Baths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Baths_(Pompeii)#Eroti... is that, just like modern parking garages are often colour coded, "you're unlikely to forget where you left your street clothes with those murals".
- mattkevan 6y agoAmazing site, thanks for sharing. Love the design and I really look forward to exploring once the HN hug of death has subsided. As someone who’s spent a long and frustrating time exploring various open access art databases, I admire your persistence and patience in putting so much quality art together.
- zhoujianfu 6y agoNice! You could order framed prints of these via YC company levelframes.com... they won’t do copyrighted stuff but since this is all public domain... perfect!
- pugworthy 6y agoIt is not "...Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations from some of the best artists the world has ever known", unless you believe this primarily applies to Euro/Western art. E.g., Utagawa Hiroshige, the Japanese ukiyo-e artist who is "considered the last great master of that tradition" has just one entry.
- amineazariz 6y agoThe website itself is a work of art.
- ngold 6y agoPublic domain media, is the best kind. Looks like a great art resource.
- terrycody 6y agoBy simply google a bit, found another website (not mine): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/hledej.php?hleda=art https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/hledej.php?hleda=art No idea if there are other good sites like artvee, good job done!
- lerie1982 6y agoroyal collection trust, https://www.rct.uk/ https://www.rct.uk/
- mattbk1 6y agoIf you want more art in your life in general, please see the Twitter bots from https://twitter.com/andreitr https://twitter.com/andreitr. (I've tried to get him onto Mastodon/Fediverse as well, but he's looking for the right instance.)
- zimpenfish 6y agohttps://botsin.space/about/more https://botsin.space/about/more might be worth a look since it's primarily for Fediverse bots.
- mattbk1 6y agoI've suggested that to him. I have a few bots there myself :-)
- bleubleunoir 6y agoI found a download link error at https://artvee.com/dl/ault-and-wiborg-ad-008/ https://artvee.com/dl/ault-and-wiborg-ad-008/ The download links point to a very different image, couldn't figure out why.
- sillycube 6y agoI love these arts. Though the site's page load is quite slow
- galacticdessert 6y agoWonderful! The Dietmar Winkler’s MIT Posters are a nice discovery -> https://artvee.com/collection/dietmar-winklers-mit-posters/ https://artvee.com/collection/dietmar-winklers-mit-posters/
- spiffyman 6y agoVery nice! Is there a way to provide feedback on a given item? For example, this[1] seems to have a typo in the title (and thus the URL). I'm sure you've already thought of this, but it's pretty easy to see how to monetize this by affiliate-linking out to a print/frame provider. [1]: https://artvee.com/dl/valles-mariners/ https://artvee.com/dl/valles-mariners/
- kixiQu 6y agoThis is perhaps more reasonable for the community to troubleshoot, but do you know why there's no thumbnail showing up for tools like https://iframely.com/ https://iframely.com/ ? Over on lemmy I'd like to post more of these but the preview isn't working. https://dev.lemmy.ml/c/artworks https://dev.lemmy.ml/c/artworks I rate about a 0.1/10 at front-end knowledge so I poked a bit but couldn't quite figure it out.