After the renovation is completed, they start decorating.interior. One of the popular ways to decorate interior space is to decorate the walls with paintings, which add charm and individuality to the interior and help introduce the world of fine art. Some design techniques help to successfully place paintings.
Options for placing paintings on the wall.
Practical aspects of combining art paintings with the interior
Paintings bring aestheticsbenefit, create semantic susceptibility. These are carriers of an artistic idea that reflects and emphasizes the owner's worldview. A painting is considered to be oil, watercolor, gouache painting on canvas or paper, enclosed in a baguette, frame. In modern apartments, reproductions of various genres are often used for decoration: landscapes, portraits, still lifes, historical paintings, animalistic compositions, battle paintings, architectural subjects, religious, genre, symbolic works of art. Paintings depicting the following can be used:
Paintings should not interfere with the movement of furniture, opening and closing of windows and doors.
- picturesque relief;
- sculpture;
- mosaic;
- antiques;
- dolls;
- CONTEMPORARY ART;
- glass, stained-glass windows;
- collection weapons;
- style nude;
- giclee, prints, posters, photographs;
- surrealism;
- postmodernism;
- abstractionism;
- impressionism;
- minimalism;
- socialist realism;
- primitivism;
- avant-garde;
- hyperrealism, and so on.
The painting should match the color scheme andthe general style of the room. Paintings should not interfere with the movement of furniture, opening and closing of windows and doors; a dry atmosphere without drafts and high humidity, tobacco smoke, which contributes to the contamination of canvases, is necessary. The painting should have a glass cover for long service. In order for a work of fine art to bring a high artistic effect in perception, a suitable surface and appropriate environment with empty walls and low furniture, free bookshelves, niches, space above the bed, sofa, table are needed. Return to contents</a>
Aesthetic aspects of combining works of painting with interior space
The placement of any work is justified in thatwhen it is given the main aesthetic and additional function. The main requirements for placing paintings on the wall are the combination of the prevailing background of the artwork and the tone of the decoration, the correct proportions of the decorative elements and the room, the influence of artificial and natural lighting. A small narrow room can be visually enlarged and expanded by placing several small sketches on the wall. The size of the reproduction relative to the furniture above which it will be placed is taken into account. Visually, the art canvas should harmoniously fit into the overall color scheme; its dominance and “washed out” effect should not be allowed, when the painting is not readable, is lost against the background of the decoration. The same rules apply to a group of paintings placed on the wall. The perception of the canvases depends on their location.
A large painting should be hung in a large room.room, so that the painting is perceived as a single whole. Neutral colors of plain wallpaper without large bright patterns that interfere with the holistic perception are best suited. A white wall is ideal for placement, creating a neutral background and perspective; paintings look better on light tones of wallpaper than on dark ones. The overall dimensions of the canvases should be slightly shorter than the furniture. Lighting plays an important role, if it is direct and there is a reflection of light in the canvas, a mirror effect is created, preventing normal viewing. A space with side or upper artificial and / or natural lighting is the best option for placing an art canvas. Lighting devices should not create a mirror effect; works without a glossy shiny surface can be placed opposite a natural light source. Paintings in which green and blue shades are the main ones look great in artificial light. Viewing a large painting is carried out from a certain distance, while the details of the work are clearly visible. The picture is perceived as a single artistic idea. Canvases are usually viewed from a distance equal to the double diagonal of the painting. Large canvases in a small room will look ridiculous, unnatural. The geometry of the canvases is taken into account: circle, ellipse, square, rectangle, rhombus, etc. When placing, it is necessary to group canvases of the same shape. Return to the table of contents</a>
Tips and tricks for placing pictures
You shouldn't oversaturate with the number of paintingsa large room, they can be hung in a spacious living room. Rectangular paintings, placed so that their length (the length of the rectangle, i.e. the longer side) is parallel to the length of the wall, can visually enlarge and extend the wall. This shape of paintings is suitable for small rooms. Rectangular canvases, placed so that their width is parallel to the length of the wall, can visually “raise” the line of the ceilings. Such decorative elements look good in a room with low ceilings. Several paintings of the same size on one wall can be placed in one row, at the same level, with the same distance between them. Such arrangement options emphasize the stability of the space. A more original method is to place the sketches at different heights relative to the floor. In this case, the unifying element can be the genre of the canvas, for example, a cityscape. If the canvases are enclosed in massive frames, they should be placed so as to provide a large volume, in this case, they should not be limited by furniture or other decorative elements. Large paintings are placed asymmetrically, small ones - symmetrically. A good way is to place them according to the gallery principle, when the middle of the canvases is on one imaginary horizontal line, the paintings are united by genre, have the same shape and size. The basic principle of placing a group of canvases is to maintain a single vertical or horizontal line. The canvases in the lower and upper rows should create a single line with their lower or upper parts, respectively. Paintings should be correctly combined with each other, choosing the same in execution technique (watercolor with watercolor, etc.). The owner's tastes are always given preference when choosing options for arranging sketches, photographs, drawings. on the wall so that they look beautiful and favorably emphasize the style of the interior, simple rules help.
