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Mural Decoration Frequently:
Mural 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 composition.A type of mural Decoration frequently used is known as a grisaille painting. This term refers to a picture painted in one color only. Grays and buffs are generally used for this purpose. During the Louis XVI period, grisaille paintings were very common, and the painters developed extraordinary ability in imitating low relief sculpture by indicating natural highlights and shadows as though the illumination of the picture came from the direction of the windows of the room.
Mural Decoration is not necessarily limited to formal interiors. In early Colonial farmhouses, many murals 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 murals, could hardly be expected to exhibit excellence of technique. Many of these compositions, however, had a naive appeal and great decorative charm.
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