Love of Posters

When Johnny was born, his parents prepared his room so well. An exquisite wall paper covered the wall on the side of the room where Johnny’s bed was. On the other side, were two beautiful posters of Johnny’s sister’s favorite characters—Sponge Bob and Mickey Mouse. Tanya, Johnny’s sister, who was four years older, had pleaded with her parents to put these posters in Johnny’s room, just as they were in her’s.

As Johnny grew up however, he was to discover his own world of art—a world that spans the great masterpieces of the renaissance to the Marvel comic heroes. Even as a five year old, Johnny had fallen in love with spiderman. “Mum, I’d like to be a spiderman when I grow up”, he would say. But his mum would just smile. Johnny had lots of spiderman posters in his room as a child. His cousin Tom, who was training to be an artist, painted a nice art print on canvas of spiderman Johnny. Johnny was fascinated.

He talked about this spiderman painting to everyone he met at school. “My cousin’s not only a great artist but he paints spiderman better than anyone could” Johny would say.

As a teenager, Johnny became fascinated by race cars and he was able to obtain lots of race car posters from the local bookshop. The bookshop lady referred to Johnny as the “happy young lad who bought almost all our posters on race cars.” The wall in Johnny’s room was filled with race car posters—Johnny became an ardent race car fan, closely following Nascar races and Formula One. You bet he had a big Formula One Ferrari poster in his room.

Johnny also had posters of musicians and actors. Like most teenagers his age, he idolized his best artists and actors and had their posters hanging by his bedside.

Johnny eventually did go to college and there you’d be surprised to know what sort of posters he had in his dorm room—airplane posters. Yes, airplane posters. Johnny’s love for race cars had transformed into a love for airplanes. He hung a vintage DC-3 Dakoter painting on over his bed and a nice art print of Concorde, made by no other than his cousin Tom, who had now become a successful painter in his own right, and who also planned to open an art gallery in town.