Home Interior Design: Using Art Abstractly

I want to get into some other things. A destination and some fashion I think. But given that there was art on the blog for the first time yesterday, it only makes sense to look at some examples of art being used in interior design today. Ideas for your home or apartment. I chose these based on rather basic criteria being essentially large, medium, and small. And for this post I'm sticking with a canonical notion of art which is only inclusive of paintings or a framed picture. I'll have to do another post on art which is not art. So, by using art abstractly I mean that the images below aren't otherwise cluttered. In fact they are relatively abstract interior designs. Even minimal in some cases. But the art as an abstract element within those compositions always manages to hold the space together in a very powerful way. It's the first thing your eye sees. You see everything else in the room in reference to it.

Thomas-Michael

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Using Art In Home Interior Design. This is obviously very big and powerful. It gives a tremendous amount of gravity to the space, which would otherwise seem floating, anonymous, and ordinary I think.

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Using Art In Home Interior Design. This one is more subtle. It's offset to the right. It feels like an inhabitant of this empty space which would otherwise feel void.

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Using Art In Home Interior Design. Medium now. But this one is so powerful. Maybe it's the scale of the paint strokes that makes it somehow feel bigger than it is. Or like it wants to visually expand out of the frame. It also kind of feels like it's watching or looking out over the room somehow.

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Using Art In Home Interior Design. This example I really love. I like it so much because the canvas is essentially blank, yet it's highly present and active.

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Using Art In Home Interior Design. And lastly this one I also love. As it demonstrates so perfectly how even a small and very abstract piece can make an entire space pivot around it. It's like a perspectival vanishing point within this bed frame. Your eye can't help but end up at it.