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Mural Decoration And:
mural Decoration and decorations need not necessarily cover every Wall in a room. It is often advisable to limit such paintings to important areas, such as an overmantel or one end of the room. Painted Decoration may also be concentrated over doors or in specified Wall panels. It is always well to use a low dado in a room where a paintedmmmmm.142 Decoration is to be intro-duced? so that no portion of the picture will be below a Table top or Sofa back. In small rooms it is possible to produce an impression of greater size through the use of perspective and atmospheric effects in a mural Decoration and composition.mural Decoration and Decoration is not necessarily limited to formal interiors. In early Colonial farmhouses, many mural Decoration ands were used; in these the painting was crude, but it was in harmony with the architecture and decoration. The interior walls and woodwork were often lavishly treated with landscapes, farm scenes, and flowers. The journeyman painters who were called upon to paint both houses and fences, portraits and mural Decoration ands, could hardly be expected to exhibit excellence of technique. Many of these compositions, however, had a naive appeal and great decorative charm.
The art of the mural Decoration and decorator is as old as architecture. The artists of Egypt, Greece, and Rome developed it to a high degree of perfection. The walls of nearly every room in Pompeii were treated with mural Decoration and decorations, and the artists of the Middle Ages carried it on for those of the Early Renaissance. Fra Angelico, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Perugino, and Pinturicchio have left unsurpassable masterpieces, and the roll of honor continues down through the great French and English painters of the 18th century. There are many painters in America who have produced remarkable work along similar lines in recent years. As a result, a revival of the art of the mural Decoration and decorator has occurred, and many decorators are depending upon this type of Wall treatment for unique effects in all types of rooms. From the Bathroom and boudoir to the public rooms of the house, mural Decoration ands are often featured. Good qualities in a mural Decoration and decoration. For a domestic interior, a mural Decoration and pattern, whether pictorial or otherwise, should be reasonably pale in color value. Contrasts of light, shade, and shadow should be gentle. The picture should never appear to jump off the wall. Too great naturalism in representation should always be avoided, and conventionalization and styliza-tion are greatly to be preferred. Colors should be comparatively flat and drawings should be simple. Lineal flourishes are disturbing as a background. It is always advisable to relate the subject matter of the pattern or picture to the personality of the owner of the house or to the use of the room, and to see that colors are used which establish the color scheme of the room and may be recalled in the rest of the furnishings. Of recent years, however, many rooms have been painted with abstract motifs.
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