How to choose a still life for the interior

Paintings decorate not only interiors, but also life. The most popular genre of painting is still life. There are many subject varieties of still life - traditional floral, with fruits and vegetables, object still lifes, abstract still lifes.

Perhaps the main criterion for choosing a still life is that it should please the owner of the house and his family. In fact, the main task of a still life is to convey beauty that is simple for aesthetic understanding. Thus, a flower still life improves your mood, a fruit and berry still life excites the appetite, objects and animals in the plot are designed to tell something, to illuminate a certain side of life.

Still lifes look equally great in living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, nurseries and hallways. In the interior, it is important whether the painting is large or miniature. The large size of the painting can serve to focus the attention of the inhabitants of the house and its guests. When choosing a canvas, you need to take into account the size and lighting of the room. However, in any case, it is better to choose a larger picture in which flowers or fruits are depicted in almost life-size.

Also, the rule of correlating the color scheme of the painting with the color scheme of the room’s interior is important. Namely, if the tone of the walls is dark, then, of course, it would be out of place to hang a picture painted in the same dark colors. Paintings in light colors and colors are perfect for both dark and light interior walls.

When it comes to still life painting styles, the most popular are realism and romanticism. However, the trends of modern painting represent new creative discoveries in the genre of still life. Thus, still lifes can be executed in the style of abstractionism, surrealism, using the technique of palette knife painting.

When choosing the subject of the canvas, you should be guided by the purpose of the room. Still lifes with berries, fruits, vegetables and flowers look great in the dining room and kitchen. A picture filled with the light of the sun, the atmosphere of summer, in which the composition of fruits is in harmony with the space of air, can become a favorite of the whole family gathering for breakfast.

Both calm and bright still lifes are well suited for the living room; often the plot of these contains various objects, books, candlesticks with candles, and musical instruments. But flowers in vases, for example, bright red or blue poppies, will also perfectly decorate the walls.

Alternatively, flowers for the bedroom can be painted in an impasto or impressionistic manner. Their tone should not be too bright so as not to attract annoying attention. In this case, the still life should be in perfect harmony with the color palette of the bedroom interior. Lush peonies in light shades, white, yellow, or soft blue orchids are perfect as a subject here.

In the nursery you can hang a whole composition made up of several paintings. In this case, the works must be from the same artist and overlap with each other. The palette of still lifes for children is usually bright and cheerful. The plot may include flowers, fruits, toys, as well as animals, frogs, butterflies, or fairy-tale characters.

The paintings that decorate the house create a special coziness; it is always pleasant to look at them, each time you discover something new. Still lifes can not only improve the emotional background of the home, but also promote relaxation after a hard day and rest the eyes.