When you buy a beautiful piece of abstract canvas art, naturally what you would want to do is to display it in the most important room of your house. You could put your abstract canvas art in your living room or your dining room where everyone can see it and be awed by its beauty. You may especially want to do this if the artwork is an expensive one or is one made by a well-known artist.
Or you may want that piece of abstract canvas art that you just bought to be something you want to enjoy in private, something you do not wish to share except with a few select people. You may want to choose to hang it in a room that you call your sanctuary, perhaps your bedroom or your home office. But still, you would want to hang it on a spot on your wall where the artwork will be displayed in its full glory.
You can do all that if that is what you wish. But what would you do if the room you want is not exactly art-friendly? The solution is simple: Make your room friendly to art.
Less Is More in Showcasing Abstract Canvas Art
When you are looking into making your room a bit friendlier to displaying art pieces, especially abstract canvas art, you can take your cue from museums and art galleries. If you go often to these places, you would see that the galleries where artworks are displayed are designed so that all eyes would be on the displayed artworks. All decorating elements are meant to draw the eyes on the art pieces and not on anything else.
To replicate this quality in the room where you would be placing the painting you just bought, you can start by painting the wall from which you would hang the painting a solid and neutral colour, like white. You can also remove other objects and artworks that do not go with your new painting off your wall. Doing this task will ensure that all attention will be drawn to the new painting and that there will not be anything to distract this attention away from it.
You can take this a step further by removing other decorating elements from your room, such as window treatments or rugs. Another thing you can do is to add spotlights or track lights that are always focused on the painting. Always remember that in displaying a piece of abstract canvas art or any kind of art in a room, the principle of “less is more” always applies.
Maintaining the Homey Atmosphere of Your Home with Abstract Canvas Art
Of course, we should not forget that a home is a home, and your home should still be liveable despite having a piece of valuable or beautiful abstract canvas art in your house. How can you achieve this?
Remember that successful home decorating relies on blending and balance. You can display abstract canvas art in your home without turning your house into a museum, and there are a number of things to do it. You can, for instance, add cushions to seats whose colour is similar to the dominant colour on your abstract canvas art. Or maybe it is not really absolutely necessary to remove those window treatments. Your house is your home and not a museum, so when you make your house art-friendly, you should still consider what is comfortable to you.
By: Luke Wildman
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Making Your Room Friendly to Abstract Canvas Art
October 28th, 2009Canvas Art – Opening Your Mind To Colour
October 21st, 2009Many people are unaware that color can effect our moods. Experiments have shown that color can change a persons sense of time, energy and space. The colors we choose also say a lot about our personality.
So why is color so important in a painting?
One painting can completely change the aesthetics of a room. The colors selected can bring warmth, energy, emotion, spirit, passion, and so the list continues. The paintings also offer a completely different look with excellent feelings and bring in many more positive reactions.
Color within a painting can set a mood, it can bring depth and character to a piece of art and is one the most important elements of any artwork. It can bring it to life, but equally destroy it.
Creating an atmosphere with your painting.
The colors you choose within your interior and the colors selected in your painting will make or break your space. It is important that they work in harmony together and are not fighting for attention. Is your painting to stand out and make a statement, or blend into the space?.
Think about the strength of the colors in comparison to all the colors already in your interior and how they will work together. Think about the number of colors you want to use, too many maybe overbearing, but too few may appear bland and boring. It all depends on what you are trying a accomplish.
Below is a short guide to what different colors represent and the energy they will bring to a space.
Green Calming, relaxing and nature.
Blue Cool, calming and soothing.
Purple Creative, spiritual and inspirational.
Red Passion, danger and energy.
Orange Warm, happy and bold.
Yellow Bright, uplifting and confident.
Neutrals Natural, easy going and comforting.
Pink Sexy, bright and outgoing.
Color Wheel
A color wheel shows the division of warm and cool colors.
Warm colors are said to advance and appear more active in a painting and stimulate the viewer, while cool colors recede and give a calm relaxed feel.
Buying a painting to suit your interior colors.
Why buy a painting to suit your interior, why not choose interior colors to suit your painting!. Most people spend so much time hunting for that perfect painting, just the right size and just the right colors to match their interior décor. Why not be so inspired by a piece of art that you choose your interior space to work around your painting. It would be far easier to work this way round then the opposite.
By creating an interior scheme first and then look for a piece of work is putting up boundaries. You then discard so many beautifully created pieces of work and are not being open minded about your piece of art.
A painting can capture your imagination, color can inspire.Stretched canvas art is a modern, fashionable method of mounting and displaying contemporary art, photography and digitally created images.
Colour is all around us and effecting us all the time, so don’t ignore it ………..embrace it!
By: Paul West
How to Choose Meaningful Abstract Canvas Art
September 22nd, 2009Some people have this bad habit of buying abstract canvas art merely for the sake of buying it. Well, whatever they do with their own money is really their own business. However, is it not a shame for any piece of abstract canvas art to end up in some attic or basement or any storage room just because the person who got it bought it willy-nilly, without any thought to how the piece of art would fit in his or her home?
Unless you have a lot of money to spare, it is always best to think about the kind of abstract canvas art that you will be buying before you actually make your purchase. It is not enough that you like the piece of art that you see; it has to be something that you can actually display in your home for you and for everyone who comes into your home to enjoy.
Selecting Abstract Canvas Art that Fits Your Home
You need to consider a few things when you buy abstract canvas art, and the first thing that you need to consider is how a particular piece of art would fit in your room. In order to do that, you have to be sure that you have already finished decorating your home before you buy your artwork.
You can think of whatever artwork you put in the room as the finishing touch, the pièce de résistance that will make the room beautiful. For you to achieve that, the artwork you choose should be something that echoes all the best elements that you used in decorating the room. It could be the dominant colour of the artwork, the subject of the artwork, or how it fits in the overall theme of the room.
Selecting Abstract Canvas Art that Speaks to You
Perhaps even more important than how the piece of abstract canvas art fits your room is how the painting itself speaks to you. It is simply this: When you look at the painting, how does the painting affect you emotionally? What do you see when you look at the painting?
There are forms or colours in abstract art that evoke different emotions out of different kinds of people. It depends on how a particular person looks at a piece of artwork. When you select your artwork, it is not enough that it looks good in the room you would put it in. It has to be something that brings out positive emotions out of you.
Your choice of artwork should also be something that speaks to others about your personal taste. Thus, you should be very careful when choosing your abstract canvas art. You should only buy the kind of abstract canvas art that you really like and you think others will like if displayed prominently in your home. After all, pieces of art are meant to be displayed, not stored in some corner where they will gather dust and be forgotten.
By: Luke Wildman
