Every detail matters in choosing a painting. Art lovers consider absolutely everything. Acting   not only the color scheme and manner of execution, but also picture sizes. This characteristic is especially important for room designers or people who want to achieve harmony in their home. For example, they are most suitable for small rooms, if they are used as decor and complement the interior. For the interior, it is important that everything in it be thoughtfully and harmoniously combined.

Our catalog is specially presented the ability to choose paintings by size. This step has been taken specifically to facilitate the search for our customers. After all, one cannot say that there are any standard sizes   in the visual arts. Each artist independently determines for himself how he wants to see the future work. But our team is ready to offer to indicate the sizes necessary for the client under the order. It is worth noting that this feature is unique in nature and important. This service will help each buyer to choose suitable paintings of different sizes. Yours that fit into all the intricacies of design decisions. When small and large sizes of paintings are available, you can easily combine and create whole themed panels on the wall. For example, various still lifes will look great in the kitchen   with food and drinks. Just imagine how cute the selection of paintings of different parameters will look.

In no case can not be ignored so popular today. How unusual this solution looks in the interior. One picture made up of several. Dimensions modular paintings   also there are various, as well as forms. For example, such a work may consist of drawings made in a rectangular form or a square, but at the same time there are also combinations of different shapes.

Our art gallery is ready to offer its customers different sizes of paintings by famous artists. Our experts will make a reproduction of the shape and parameters you need.. If you want to buy, you need to contact our consultants and discuss this issue. We offer you the opportunity to buy not only small or large paintings, but also provide non-standard sizes and shapes. In our section "By size", each client will be able to find all the size options that we have. If you did not find the parameters suitable for you, quickly contact our specialists.

07.08.2014

How to choose the size of the paintings?

Sometimes when choosing a picture, the question arises - what size should the picture be? Of course, everyone remembers the principle: the more, the better. But in this case, it does not always work. Think about how big your office or apartment is. If you need something big, maybe you should think about a carpet or photo wallpaper? Large standard paintings are not desirable for standard Russian apartments. The optimal size is 50x70 cm (the size of the painting is considered to be unframed, the size of the canvas stretched on a stretcher). Pictures of this size are perfect for both the bedroom and the hall. Looks good and almost square-shaped paintings - 60x70 cm. Recently, the so-called “flattened” paintings, which have the shape of an elongated rectangle (about one side twice as long as the other), are becoming popular. The sizes of such paintings: 40x80 cm, 50x100 cm.

For the hall and premises with an area of \u200b\u200bmore than 20 square meters. meters you can choose a large picture: 70x100 cm, 60x120 cm. However, this picture does not tolerate the neighborhood - it should be one on the wall. By the way, note that large paintings can create difficulties in transportation. In an ordinary passenger car, only a 60x100 cm picture can fit in a frame. Medium-sized paintings look quite harmonious enough: 40x60 cm, 35x70 cm, 50x60 cm, 30x40 cm and 24x30 cm. They are perfect for the kitchen. The size of the paintings in round frames is determined by its diameter. And you can understand how big it is by mentally placing it in a suitable square or rectangle. With a limited budget, you should think about a composition of several paintings of small sizes. The combination of several small paintings with an average look, for example, 40x30 cm, 60x40 cm and 40x30 cm, looks original. In this case, the vertical sides of all the paintings are the same. But another option is possible: two small paintings the same size, and the average is arbitrary.

The composition determines the choice of the basis format, and the final result of the work often depends on the correctness of this choice.

There are two rectangular formats: landscape (horizontal) and portrait (vertical). The names speak for themselves: on a vertical basis, as a rule, portraits are painted, on a horizontal basis - landscapes. Such a division of formats according to their functional purpose is quite logical: it would be strange to depict a wide-spreading steppe or endless sea on a vertical basis, and a person’s silhouette and face on a horizontal one.

The format of the basis for the picture is very important, because it often helps the artist to achieve his ultimate goal - to impress the viewer.

Landscapes and portraits are usually painted in certain formats. But the prevailing rules can be violated if it is necessary to make the picture more spectacular or convey a special idea of \u200b\u200bthe artist.

Most of the paintings created by artists have a rectangular format. Although it has its own characteristics. Say, landscapes look better on a horizontal rectangle - looking at such a picture, we are as if “walking” along it. Ancient Chinese artists created horizontal landscape paintings in the form of scrolls. They were extremely long, they were never even fully deployed and examined in parts. Engravings, scrolls and screens of vertical formats with landscapes and marinas, traditional for Japanese art, inspired European artists of the 19th century. The horizontal format is also suitable for paintings in which something interesting happens - the viewer, as it were, becomes an accidental witness to the event and only gradually understands what exactly is happening. There are paintings, strongly elongated horizontally, they are called friezes. They can depict, for example, an event with a large number of characters.

But a person is more often depicted in a picture of a vertical format: so his figure attracts the most attention. There are many reasons why portraits are usually portrayed in a vertical format. However, the silhouette of a woman reclining on a couch looks more natural in the horizontal format.

In the so-called classic portraits, the face of the model is always depicted at the top of the picture. Due to the vertical format of the picture, the eyes of the depicted person are at the level of the eyes of the viewer standing in front of the portrait - this creates a kind of contact between them and an impression is born.

Paintings that are very elongated vertically also exist - after all, it is precisely this format that best conveys the beauty of a flower on a long stalk, or long-necked and long-legged birds, such as a crane or heron. Usually such paintings have a decorative character. They are placed, in particular, along the wall of a large hall or on the sides of the doors.

The size of the picture is chosen depending on the size of the room, therefore, for its proper perception, the optimal distance is necessary. Works of 70, 90 and more centimeters on the larger side (taking into account the width of the baguette frame) are appropriate only in spacious rooms with a high ceiling. "Vertical" canvases visually make the room higher, "horizontal" as it were, "expand" the walls. If the living room is not very spacious, then it is better to choose paintings of small sizes, a maximum of 50 cm on the larger side. If a free space   on the wall a little, you can hang very small "pictures" - less than 20 cm. They look good not only separately, but also in groups of two, three paintings. Authoring compositions from several works, united by one theme, should be placed nearby. You can make a composition from different works, but they must be made in the same technique (watercolor, tempera, etc.) and framed in the same style.

Landscape format

The horizontal format makes it possible to depict landscapes and allows the artist to create the illusion of depth. In France, a system of 20 standard formats was created for landscapes from 12 × 18 cm to 114 × 195 cm. Many of these formats are based on golden section punctures - 3: 5 or 8: 13. However, the landscape format can also be used for portraits if this is dictated by the artist’s intention.

Panorama format

A wide format, for example 30 x 56 cm or 246 x 412 cm, designed for sea and other panoramic landscapes, can be used differently. However, the composition must be carefully composed so that the gaze does not wander aimlessly from one edge to another. Paul Gauguin often used the panoramic format, enclosing static figures in a narrow canvas. Moreover, his paintings are strictly calculated. Often he divided the space of the composition, using the technique of discount. According to this system, the short side of the rectangle is laid off on the long and a vertical line is drawn from this point, which divides the picture into a square and another rectangle.

Rabatment can be expanded if you draw a second vertical on the other side of the picture. Two verticals will divide the picture into three parts. Diagonals drawn from the corners of the picture intersect the vertical lines of the rabbitment at points called the "eyes" of the picture. In the past, many artists considered these points to be particularly important.

Portrait format

There are 8 standard formats that portrait painters in Britain and the USA traditionally use in their work. A short portrait format is best for portraying a shoulder portrait, while tall versions are more convenient for full-length portraits of people. Traditional sizes are as follows:

• "episcopal" full height 269 × 178 cm
• full height 239 × 147 cm
• small full height 224 × 132 cm
• "episcopal" waist portrait 142 × 112 cm
• waist portrait 127 × 102 cm
• small waist portrait 112 × 86 cm
• kit - cat format 91 × 70 cm
• three quarters 76 × 64 cm

The whale-cat format is named after the popular "Whale-Cat Club" of the 18th century, whose members gathered at Christopher Kat's house in London. Sir Godfrey Kneller painted their portraits in a format that would fit in club rooms with fairly low ceilings.

French size standards for paintings

French standards for sizes for painting were formed in the 19th century. Depending on the genre of painting, the formats are divided into three categories and are distributed in ascending order: a rectangular format approaching a square is called the “figure” format; maximally elongated - format "marin"; intermediate - format "landscape". Depending on the size of the larger side, a number is assigned to each format. For example, 12F (61 × 50), 25P (81 × 60), 20M (73 × 50)

room	Figure (cm)	Paysage (cm)	Marine (cm)
0	18 × 14	18 × 12	18 × 10
1	22 × 16	22 × 14	22 × 12
2	24 × 19	24 × 16	24 × 14
3	27 × 22	27 × 19	27 × 16
4	33 × 24	33 × 22	33 × 19
5	35 × 27	35 × 24	35 × 22
6	41 × 33	41 × 27	41 × 24
8	46 × 38	46 × 33	46 × 27
10	55 × 46	55 × 38	55 × 33
12	61 × 50	61 × 46	61 × 38
15	65 × 54	65 × 50	65 × 46
20	73 × 60	73 × 54	73 × 50
25	81 × 65	81 × 60	81 × 54
30	92 × 73	92 × 65	92 × 60
40	100 × 81	100 × 73	100 × 65
50	116 × 89	116 × 81	116 × 73
60	130 × 97	130 × 89	130 × 81
80	146 × 114	146 × 97	146 × 89
100	162 × 130	162 × 114	162 × 97
120	195 × 130	195 × 114	195 × 97

Vintage formats of standard French canvases

Antique French canvas formats that are still in use.

• Cloche (Bell, cap)
• Telier (named after Chancellor Tellier (1603-1685), who introduced it
• Ecu (Shield)
• Coca (Sink)
• Rosen (Grapes)
• Jesu (Jesus)
• Soleil (Sun)
• Petite Aigle (Little Eagle)
• Grand Aigle (Big Eagle)
• Grand Mond (Big World)
• Univer (Universe)

The most common are Rezen and Gesu. Only Rezen (15 "Landscape") meets modern standards.

Some formats get their name by type or pictorial watermarks on paper. For example:
  “Large eagle” (74 × 105), “small eagle” (60 × 94), “grapes” (50 × 64), “shell” (44 × 56), “wreath” (36 × 46 or 37 × 47) .

European picture formats

• 40 × 30
• 50 × 40
• 60 × 40
• 60 × 50
• 70 × 50
• 70 × 55
• 70 × 60
• 80 × 60
• 80 × 65
• 80 × 70
• 90 × 60
• 90 × 70
• 100 × 70
• 100 × 80
• 100 × 90
• 120 × 100
• 150 × 100
• 150 × 120

American picture formats

In Britain and the USA, canvas for landscapes is produced in the form of horizontal rectangles of three formats.

• 75 × 127 cm
• 91 × \u200b\u200b137 cm
• 102 × 152 cm

Formats of paintings related to the growth of the artist

After World War II, American artists became less likely to use European picture formats, preferring formats related to the growth (physique) of the artist.

The so-called "American" format type: 200 × 160, 240 × 200, etc.

Hanging paintings

Current problem weights paintings, photos, posters   solved by hanging systems for paintings

If you have a lot paintings   or engravings   at uniform stylecan arrange home picture the gallery. To do this, right under the ceiling along the entire length of the free wall, you need to fix metal bar   with movable hooks. Suspension system   will allow hang up paintings   one below the other on transparent fishing line. Such composition   can be changed from time to time by adding paintings, hanging paintings   on different height   and in various combinations. It is important that outer edges meetings paintings   formed a clear, correct rectangle. It will give composition   equilibrium.

Suspension systems paintings   allow:

• Save time and effort in locating the clove on the wall   and hole drilling   at the wall. WITH suspension systems weight paintings   It will take no more than ten minutes without clogging the stud and drilling new holes.
• Group paintings   or change exposure   pictures photos   and other works of art as often as you wish. At the same time, you can easily, effortlessly move paintings   right-left or up-down.
• Keep the aesthetics of the room and forever forget about noticeably sticking nails from walls    or visible holes.
• Suspension systems   Easily mounted and dismantled independently.

Departure of the specialist with samples hanging systems for paintings.

Specialists framing workshop   professionally hang   your paintings. Suspension systems   and highlighter paintings Artiteq(Holland). Consultations, calculation, delivery, installation, installation.

How to order a hanging system for paintings?

I want to order a hanging system for paintings, what needs to be done for this?

To order a suspension system:

Call a specialist in our workshop for measuring walls (ceilings), or send a plan of the room by mail indicating the proposed locations for the paintings.

Find out what walls are made of (definition of wall material)

Measure the height of the ceilings.

Indicate the required number of lines and hooks. Two fishing lines are needed per linear meter of wall (the exact amount can be calculated by knowing the overall dimensions of the paintings in the frames and the distance between them).

Know the approximate weight of framed paintings

There is the possibility of hanging pictures in several tiers one above the other. At the same time, it is important to take into account the weight of the placed pictures (photographs) for the correct choice of hooks that can withstand from 4 to 15 kg each. Photos (diplomas, etc.) can be hung on one fishing line and one hook, if their size is not very large (15 x 20, 20 x 30).

Starting from the 30 x 40 picture format, it is preferable to use two fishing lines with a hook on each (for ease of centering). Suspension systems use transparent fishing line, which makes it almost invisible. It is also possible to use a metal braided cord (cable).

The number of hooks depends on the number of suspension levels of your paintings. If there are two levels, then it is necessary to use two fishing lines and two hooks per picture.

After calculating the cost of the suspension system, our baguette workshop can report the final price or invoice by mail (for cashless payment of the system)

Make a payment in any way convenient for you. Pick up the ordered and paid suspension system (on your own, or ordering delivery).

You can order a suspension system:

• at the workshop reception point
• with delivery at the place of residence or work
• by email
• by phone
• for cash and cashless payments

PAINTING IN THE INTERIOR

The medicine for the spleen

The time came for moody landscapes, when the sky was low and gray, the trees threw off their leaves and rustled bare branches in the wind. And if the walls in the house are also bare, then by all means wait for the uninvited guest - the autumn blues. Not happy about the prospect? Then it's time to the gallery for the picture.

City in the living room

Today, the presence in the house of painting is considered good form. The picture is a classic version of wall decoration, it is able to revive and fill with meaning any interior. This is a replica in a fascinating story about the house and its owner. Often the picture is replaced with a reproduction or print (copy of a famous canvas) - from the point of view of the interior, this is not important. It is important that the picture is appropriate, and its palette gives positive emotions. Light and transparent or warm and bright colors should prevail on the canvas. Carefully choose the style in which the painting is written. Psychologists believe that some paintings take away energy from a person. These are works in the styles of abstractionism, constructivism, cubism - it is better to admire them on the opening days, in extreme cases, hang them in the hallway. It is better to decorate household habitats with the works of impressionist artists and realistic paintings depicting children, animals, the sea and marine life, summer and spring motifs.

It is worth considering the genre of the picture. The vibrant cityscape is good in the living room, here it creates a solemn atmosphere, as if opening a window to another world. Filled with light, a peaceful rural landscape, executed in pastel colors, is suitable for a bedroom. The usual location for the paintings here is the head of the bed. It is good to hang a landscape with a large image depth along the stairs (but not a spiral one), the best option is several paintings of the same size, repeating the line of steps.

Still life - the most universal picture, according to the laws of painting on it can be depicted any inanimate objects. The artist’s arsenal has an infinite number of objects, we have endless possibilities for their application in the interior. Snow, dishes, vegetables in the dining room and in the kitchen. Books, statuettes, stationery in the office. Cut flowers and ripped fruits in the bedroom. Ideally, the still lifes on the wall should be done in a common manner.

Story paintings are a special case. Biblical and antique plots will introduce an element of luxury and continuity of traditions into the house. But not every interior can withstand such a picture. It is good to hang it over the fireplace in the interiors of the classical style. Battle scenes are suitable for empire, but for such paintings it is still better to find a place in the office, and in the living room to hang ceremonial portraits of ancestors or household members. Genre scenes are more democratic, in addition, they can emphasize the occupation of the owner of the house or hint about the sphere of his hobbies.

Why do artists love north windows

Choosing a picture is half the battle, it is important to choose a suitable place for it and the method of exhibiting it. Traditionally paintings are hung on the walls symmetrically using professional suspension systems   which represent a barbell with brackets. This is very relevant and convenient - to move the picture higher or lower, you just need to move the bracket to the desired position. But why not just arrange the paintings on the shelves, on the floor, table, piano, easel, on a chair or in an armchair and rearrange them from time to time? It is best to hang a good picture in the most illuminated place of the room, but it is better to avoid direct sunlight, they distort and discolor. The best option is artificial lighting or moving natural light. If the room windows face south or southwest, the best exposure areas will be the side west and northwest walls. The south and southwest walls are suitable if the windows look east. With windows facing north, any hanging of paintings is acceptable, even opposite the window. It is no coincidence that artists in past centuries preferred studios to windows to the north. This situation gives a smooth studio lighting. But even if the light allows, it is better not to hang the paintings around the perimeter of the room - on each wall - this breaks the single composition of the interior.

Do not discount the picture next door to other wall decorations. Sometimes a company of other paintings is permissible. In any case, they should be designed in the same color scheme in order to balance and calm the room’s atmosphere, and not create chaos from colored spots. The ideal option is paintings that make up a single composition. For example, small paintings located around a large painting. Such a composition will look advantageous in a room with high ceilings. Canvases, the same size, can be hung on a wall in a row, at an equal distance from each other or in a checkerboard pattern, it is important to observe the same intervals between the paintings. Pictures, different in format, are conveniently arranged in tiers, but not in ascending or descending order - this is a deliberately unsuccessful composition. The official look will be given to the interior by two similar paintings, symmetrically located, for example, above a sofa or a table.

It can either solo or play the role of the background. A bright and large artistic canvas will surely attract attention, become a semantic center and will dictate its design conditions. It is worth choosing a picture for the interior, if there is no desire to change the interior for the picture. The first thing you need to think about the walls, not every wall is a picture. Wooden or wood-like walls are not prone to oil paintings. The same applies to walls decorated with variegated wallpaper, here you will have to look for a picture on the wall. True, you can save her with a wide frame, but it’s better to prepare her a special place. Drape a part of the wall from floor to ceiling with a canvas or expose it to a rough, gray plaster. But nevertheless, the ideal place of residence of the picture is a smooth wall painted with a paint of restrained light tone. But painting the wall in the tone of the picture is optional, and even undesirable. Seascape, for example, in a blue room may be lost. Usually the picture works in a team with furniture. For the team to be friendly, the picture should be hung no more than 30 cm from the furniture, in any case, experts advise hanging the picture always a little lower than you want, so that it is more convenient to admire it. In this case, the picture or composition of the pictures should not be cumbersome. Effective work will be when the size of the picture does not exceed two-thirds the size of the furniture over which it hangs. A small picture on the wall may be lost, therefore it is better to choose a size equal to at least half the size of the furniture. Otherwise, you have to create a composition of small paintings. Group them better in one place. You can hang the pictures in one row, such a composition should have one common mental border at the top or bottom. Here you can not do without the usual neighbors of the picture - vases, figurines, lamps. The classic version of a competent neighborhood is a vertical format picture balanced by a low vessel, a horizontal format picture by a high vase. To make friends with the room will help the frames, selected for the style of the interior, color and texture of furniture and decoration materials. The fashion for a baguette follows the trends in interior design, so if you want, you can find a frame for any home.

For a room in an Art Deco style, a silver, white or black frame with rounded corners, clear vertical lines, concave shapes and a streamlined pattern, with an unusual texture of the elements, is suitable. The Art Nouveau frame imitates bronze intertwined in exquisite lines of fancy colors and marine life. Golden frames in classic style   cite ornamental reliefs of ancient Greek architecture. Frames for imperial interiors are decorated with a repeating ornament of stylized laurel branches and arches. Baroque style frames are distinguished by an abundance of curls. Baguette of ethnic styles is made of natural materials: rattan, bamboo, bone, shells. Country style frames - wood or tan and cherry. Baguette made of aluminum is very suitable for a modern interior. Modern style in general can afford a lot, even a picture without a frame. Of course, the frame is primarily “clothing” for the picture. As they say, they are met by clothes. The color, design and width of a baguette can make a big difference in the visual perception of the picture. For example, wide frames deepen and at the same time expand the space of the paintings, as if pulling them inward, they are good for small paintings. Narrow frames draw attention to detail; large paintings, sketches and watercolors look good in them. For the latter, a passe-partout is appropriate - a cardboard frame that emphasizes the beauty of the picture and harmonizes its color relationships with the wall plane.