The old joke that technique matters more than size but in the world of modern art, often size trumps technique. The bigger the better and the bigger the bucks as art is often priced by the square inch.
Bigger art requires bigger houses from people with fatter wallets.
And perhaps big art goes with bigger egos from the buyers. You have to be a bit of a show off to display your art preferences in billboard sized canvases. No escaping big art, it can’t be tucked into the library or a guest bathroom. Big art commands a large space, an office lobby or oversize living room.
In the gallery space, large artwork commands attention even if the art is bigger than expected when it’s bought home, out of that large gallery and into a human sized den.
When the art is bigger than a queen-sized bed there might be a problem with the decor but art as a headboard is fine.
Taste, trend, trend chasers… In my experience the most genuine answer I can dish out is scale. Word of advice to all painters trying to find their way – MAKE IT BIG. People fucking love massive paintings. I was on my last term of uni and predicted a 2:1 and I rang up my sister and she was like, “dude just make them enormous you’ll graduate top of class, worked for me” , and she was kind of right. I was literally painting the same shit I was painting earlier but on a 7×7 foot canvas and suddenly everyone started digging it. Scale (tried and tested) = good art (apparently).
Anna Choutova
General Rules for Art Size in Room Decor
Artists hate the idea of people buying art to match the sofa color or their decor but the fact of the matter is that people have to live with the art they buy and once it leaves the pure white walls of the gallery, it will be displayed inside a home, not a museum.
Artists would like to think that all the work they produce would end up sterile and alone in the hollow walls of a museum but the reality is the art is much more likely to share the space of a busy home with kids and pets running around or bustling office or cafe.
Art really was never meant to be hung on museum walls, It was created to decorate cave walls, keep drafty castles warmer and liven up living spaces. As such there are some general guidelines for fitting artwork into your home or office decor.
The ideal height of the canvas would be between 5.4 to 6.75 and the ideal width would between 3 feet and 3.75 feet. 2) When hanging wall art over furniture, such as a bed, a fireplace or a couch, it should be between 2/3 to 3/4 of the width of the furniture.
Rules of Thumb for hanging artwork
- Your wall art should take about 60% to 75% of the available empty wall space, the portion not covered by moldings or furniture.
- Wall art that you want to hang over furniture, such as a fireplace, a bed or a couch, should be between 2/3 and 3/4 of the furniture’s width.
- For hallways, large wall art that measures 36 inches by 75 inches in height and width can create a polished, classic look.
- A canvas size that measures 48 inches by 32 inches in height and width looks awesome above a 78 inches sofa.
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