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Heart Crown and Mirror, Guillaume Apollinaire

Heart Crown and Mirror, Guillaume Apollinaire

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  • Poster created in France
  • Papier 100% éco-responsable100% eco-friendly paper
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“In this mirror I am enclosed living and true as one imagines angels.”

Work Context

This calligram is part of the poem-drawings that Apollinaire composed between 1913 and 1916, where the arrangement of words on the page literally depicts their subject - here a heart, a crown, and a mirror. Published in Calligrammes (1918), it merges poetry and visual arts in an unprecedented avant-garde gesture.

What is a calligram like "Heart Crown and Mirror"?

A calligram is a poem whose typographic arrangement of words visually depicts the subject of the text - here a heart, a crown, and a mirror. Apollinaire invented and popularized this form between 1913 and 1918.

What size should I choose for this "Heart Crown and Mirror" poster?

This "Heart Crown and Mirror" poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm is suitable for a hallway, office, or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included, the sizes are standard and can be found commercially.

Gift idea for a visual poetry enthusiast, an avant-garde lover, or anyone sensitive to the fusion of text and image.

Lean in close and you'll see the letters aren't perfectly crisp. That's because they come from a page printed more than 100 years ago. Between a clean copy in a modern font and the real type of the period, we chose the real thing.

Features and Sizes

Available sizes: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: thick eco-friendly matte paper
Printing: high resolution, colorfast over time
Frame: not included
Print medium: poster, art print on matt paper
Theme: calligram, visual poetry
Average delivery time observed: 3 working days, careful packaging

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Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. It is this layout that makes you want to read them again.

The paper is an uncoated matte 170 gsm. Its surface stays slightly fibrous, the ink sinks in, the light spreads across it. You read it the way you read a book.

It is eco-friendly paper from sustainably managed forests, and printed as close to you as possible to shorten transport.

Hanging a poem is not the same as reading it once. The text stays there, you catch two lines in passing, and the day pauses for a second. It is a moment you give yourself, and offer to those who live with you.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning.

It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

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