Art for Your Home - Living Room Wall Art Ideas

 

Even the Most Beautiful Interior Feels Incomplete Without Art

No matter how modern, stylish, or thoughtfully designed your interior is, it will never feel truly harmonious if the walls remain empty. Luxurious renovations, elegant furniture, premium textiles, and beautiful accessories all create a strong foundation — but bare walls can leave a space feeling cold and unfinished.

That’s why choosing the right painting for your living room is so important. A well-selected artwork brings the entire interior together, adding warmth, character, and a sense of completion.

Custom-made oil paintings for your home or office 

If you’re looking for a unique piece of art to add to your home or office, consider purchasing a hand-painted oil painting. These paintings are created by skilled artists who use high-quality materials to ensure that each piece is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. When you purchase an oil painting, you’re not just buying a piece of art – you’re investing in a work of art that will last for generations. Unlike prints or posters, oil paintings are created using high-quality materials that are designed to stand the test of time. This means that your painting will look just as beautiful in 50 years as it does today. One of the best things about oil paintings is that they come in a wide variety of styles and sizes. Whether you’re looking for a large landscape painting or a small portrait, there’s an oil painting out there that’s perfect for your needs. And because each painting is created by hand, you can be sure that your piece is truly unique. So if you’re looking for a beautiful and timeless piece of art to add to your collection, consider purchasing a hand-painted oil painting. With their stunning colors and intricate details, these paintings are sure to become treasured family heirlooms for generations to come. You decide the theme, size and style of your painting. Order now and get a hand-painted masterpiece delivered to your door. Milena Olesińska 

 

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Gordon Onslow Ford

 

 Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003) was one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group surrounding André Breton.Born in England in 1912 to a family of artists, Gordon Onslow Ford began painting at an early age. His grandfather, Edward Onslow Ford, was a renowned Victorian sculptor. At the age of 11, he began painting landscapes under the guidance of his uncle. Following the death of his father at age 14, he was sent to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. The ocean affected him deeply and his early works depicted ocean scenes. The metaphor of taking a "voyage" later became an important aspect of his paintings.Wikipedia

 

Arturo Rivera

 

 Arturo Rivera (1945 –2020) was a Mexican painter based in Mexico City. He lived for eight years in New York City where he worked as a kitchen helper, construction worker and as a worker in a paint factory to support his painting. In 1979, artist Max Zimmerman saw Rivera's work at the Latin American Institute on Madison Street and invited him to Munich as an assistant teacher at the Kunstakademie. After a year of intensive work and studies he returned to Mexico. In 1982 his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno.He exposes through his art the horrors of the world, of nature, of dreams and imagination as well as painting portraits, self portraits, characters, landscapes, and objects of classic beauty into his intricate compositions. His main materials are acrylic, watercolor, caseine, graphite, compte crayons, oil pastels, egg tempera, and creta paint.His work has been exhibited throughout Mexico and abroad (Francis Gallery NYC, Jack Gallery SoHo NYC, Walton Galley of Chicago, Haus der Kunst of Munich, etc.).Arturo Rivera died October 2020.

 

Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art

Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. He worked on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and added sculptural 3D elements. He was recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a major contribution to the Color Field School and has had a lasting impact on the contemporary art canon

"Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an African-American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam has subsequently pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation has been the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions continue to take on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials."(pacegallery.com)