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Art Prints For Home Decorating
by Joel Walsh
With the new craze for interior decorating inspired by "home
makeover" television programs, more and more people are tempted
to hire a professional decorator, even if they can't afford one.
Simplicity: the Art of Home Decorating
If you're thinking about breaking the bank for the sake of a
beautiful room, think again. You don't have to spend as much as
an oil tycoon to have a home every bit as beautiful. Here's why:
A pair of human eyes can only take in so much, no matter how
much is put before them.
The secret is not to aim for beauty that comes from opulence,
but for a simple beauty. And simple beauty is usually less
expensive.
The best way to go for simple beauty in interior design is to
make the focus of a room a single well-chosen decorative
element.
Art Prints: Simple Home Decor Focus
But what single beautiful element could you actually afford?
Unless you happen to get really, really lucky at a crafts fair
or estate sale, there's only one sure way to buy high taste on
a low budget. Not original paintings or expensive wallpaper.
Just a well-chosen print of a painting or photograph that
reflects your style and taste and matches your room.
Surprised at such a simple answer to the decorating conundrum?
Perhaps, like most people, you do not understand what art
prints really are.
What Art Prints Are Not
Art prints are not posters.
Posters are made using paper stock similar to what magazines
use. Art prints are made using special heavier print stock
especially for prints.
Posters often play rather loose with the original image,
cropping it, resizing it, adding text, or even changing
shading. Prints will typically come much closer to the
original, and will rarely crop the original image or alter its
appearance significantly.
Posters are vastly less durable than art prints. You can expect
a high-quality print to last decades without showing signs of
age.
Art prints are not reproductions (though they are close).
Reproductions of a work of art, usually a painting, involve
using exactly or nearly exactly the same brush strokes and
materials, which is why they are so expensive. Prints,
meanwhile, reproduce the look of the artwork without
reproducing every detail of it. For instance, even though many
prints of paintings use textured surfaces or even artificial
brush strokes, the exact brush strokes of the original are not
copied.
Reproductions also have to be conserved as carefully as
original paintings in most cases, or they will fade.
High-quality prints are given protection against fading, either
in the form of a coating to the surface, or a Plexiglas case.
Reproductions, being paintings, are not very durable, and must
be treated with special care. Prints, though not
indestructible, are more likely to survive accidents. Some
prints can even be washed with glass cleaner.
Of course, no art print will be a good anchor for a room's
decor if it's not well chosen. Unfortunately, many people
either don't have any particular tastes when it comes to art or
decor, or else do not trust their own taste. Luckily, the
internet puts the accumulated knowledge of thousands of
decorators, artists, and art experts at your disposal. Thanks
to the internet, your home can look as good as the ones on TV.
Joel Walsh writes for a1-paintings. Please Visit http://www.a1-paintings.com for more information
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