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Press Release Summary: Most decorators traditionally recommend a minimalist décor
for many spaces, particularly small spaces such as apartments and guest houses.
Unfortunately, many people believe that this means that the walls should be kept
completely bare for a minimalist décor to work. Aren\'t pictures too flashy for a
minimalist décor?

Press Release Body: Most decorators traditionally recommend a minimalist décor for
many spaces, particularly small spaces such as apartments and guest houses.
Unfortunately, many people believe that this means that the walls should be kept
completely bare for a minimalist décor to work. Aren\'t pictures too flashy for a
minimalist décor?

Art Prints: Perfect Complement to a Minimalist Decor

In a word: no, pictures are not too flashy to use with a minimalist décor. In a few
more words: art prints are not too flashy for a minimalist décor, as long as you
select your prints carefully. In fact, in rooms with minimalist decor, art prints
add character and highlight the fact that the decor really is minimalist and not
just neglected.

The trick with choosing art prints carefully is just to pick one print, or pick a
few prints on a highly related subject or in a similar style, preferably all by the
same artist. In a room with minimalist décor, the prints will easily get more
attention than anything else in the room, so you want to be careful that the prints
do not conflict with each other. An obvious example: if you really like Monet\'s
paintings of water lilies, you could get several prints each of a different Monet
painting of water lilies.

There is a special concern if your décor is not just minimalist but strikingly
modernist (for instance, lots of simple furniture with clear angles or curves rather
than carved woodwork). In a room with a particularly modernist décor, prints that
are from an earlier era might seem out of place. Go with prints that were created
more or less in the era in which your furniture was designed, or in which your
furniture\'s design was most popular.

Obviously, there is a lot of room for personal judgment as to what goes with what,
since modernist anything always was designed not to look as though it belonged to a
particular period of time. It can be even more confusing if your modernist-looking
furniture was really just designed to look spare in a general way rather than to
hark to a particular school of design. In those cases, just try to go for something
that looks like it matches, sticking to prints of artworks that are modern but that
are not immediately recognizable as belonging to a specific decade.

If your furniture leans toward the 1950s and 60s style of modernism (the kind of
playful curves that would be at home in a room with a sunburst clock on the wall),
try prints of the work of a period artist such as Jackson Pollack. If your décor\'s
modernism leans toward the seventies or eighties (e.g., glass-topped coffee tables
and very spare design, you might be better off with Jasper Johns than Jackson
Pollack.

Choosing Art Prints for Rooms with Multiple Colors

* Minimal does not necessarily mean subdued. Just look at the vibrant paintings of
modern artist Mondrian, such as \"Broadway Boogie Woogie\", composed entirely of
interlocking rectangles, square, triangles, and circles. If you\'d like to keep your
décor simple even with a striking color scheme, art prints can actually help. Here\'s
why:

* Art prints pull together disparate colors in a room. A print gallery or website
will be able to recommend the best art print based on the colors in your room. Some
sites even have search engines that match a room\'s color scheme with appropriate art
prints.

* When the furnishings in a room attract attention art prints make sure the walls
provide visual interest, too, so the eye is not pulled relentlessly downward toward
the furniture or rugs. Of course, you have to be careful not to give people a
headache. As a rule of thumb, the more riotous the play of colors on the ground, the
more orderly the play of colors on the walls should be. If the vibrant colors of
your furnishings tend to swirl together, lend the room calm with artwork that takes
those colors and presents them in neat lines and blocks.

* Art prints make it clear that your colorful décor is a well-rhymed composition,
not just a loud burst of color. Visitors to your pad who see a blue couch, red end
tables, and yellow lamps might well wonder what you were thinking--until they see a
print of \"Broadway Boogie Woogie,\" or other artwork that shows how these disparate
colors really do belong together.

* In the end, there is beauty in the simplicity of a room with a minimalist interior
design, and there is beauty in the art that takes the same simple approach. If you
keep that fact in mind when choosing artwork for your minimalist room, you can make
sure your décor is more than minimally beautiful.


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