Customer Reviews

2010 Mucha Wall Calendar

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My niece, a freshman art major is going through an Art Nouveau phase and asked for an Alphonse Mucha poster for Christmas. I thought she might like this calendar even better, as it has 12 of Mucha's languishing portraits of ladies, most of them advertising such items as Sarah Bernhardt plays, champagne, and beer.

Each month displays a separate 11.6" x 11.6" color picture above a calendar grid. Opened up on a wall, the calendar is roughly 1 foot wide and 2 feet long.

Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic, but spent his creative years in Paris just as Art Nouveau was embracing Europe's new industrial aesthetic. It featured naturalistic but stylized forms, often combined with more geometric shapes as in the paintings of Alphonse Mucha or Gustav Klimt. The movement also produced useful or wearable art as evidenced by Lalique jewelry or Tiffany lamps. Mucha himself designed advertising posters and stage sets, so I'm sure he would approve of this useful and beautiful presentation of his art.

I love the artwork but I was just a tad bit disappointed with this calendar. The one I had for 2010 had thicker pages with a glossy finish. This one doesn't seem to be as well-made because of that. Also, the pictures could be bigger. They don't fill the whole page like my last Mucha calender so I feel a little cheated in that respect.

My daughter wanted this as one of her Christmas presents. She loves the big poster pictures, but as a calender there is no where to write. The date spaces are very tiny. So buy this for the art posters, but not as an every day calender.

I love Mucha and this does have some good pieces, but overall it's a pretty stark calendar. I was hoping for something more lavish to brighten up the wall over my desk.

What else can you say, a beautiful image by the master of art noveau, each and every month. One of the best calendars I have bought in years.

I love this calendar and have purchased previous versions of it too. My only complaint is the setup of the dates and such. It's a bit busy and I would prefer a cleaner design, but if you're looking for a beautiful, unique calendar, I would still recommend this one.

The Mucha images are beautiful, but are a bit small for the overall size of the calendar.

Not art quality prints or anything, But good quality posters with a generious buffer between the picture and the calander at the bottom. The only down side is that its a bit hard to figure out what day of the week a date is i.e its not formatted like most calendars. But if you are buying this you probably aren't buying it to write your appointments on anyway. Some of the colors are a bit duller that I would prefer, but I haven't seen art quality copies of originals to know which version brighter or duller more earthtone tinted are truer to the artists concept.

Product came very late and also had a tear in the corner of all the calendar pages.