CURATED MAC Client Installations
Fine art is probably the one entity that plays well with others, no question.
In fact, art plays so well with styles different from itself you’ll be remiss if you disallow this fusion relationship.
When different art styles come together legendary artists have been born and iconic displays birthed.
Merging art styles happens in the same way we make new friends.
Power forward and I’ll explain in more detail how to make a display pop without popping a blood vessel.
Common ground breeds new creative spaces when combining styles of art
CURATED MAC Client Installations
What’s the first rule of making new buddies? It’s not official and is definitely unwritten… but innately as human beings when we want to build connections we are looking for similarities.
When you’re feeling brave and putting yourself out there and you like sneakers, for instance, you’re more likely to break the ice by complimenting someone’s shoes.
Maybe you’re in love with mustard yellow so no matter what article of clothing someone has on if it’s yellow you’re drawn to them and you’re vocalizing your adoration of their bold color choices.
Building a take-your-breath-away art display works in the same way. You want to find what the multiple styles have in common.
Are you looking to make a room fluid, feminine, and tranquil?
Whether the pieces you are playing with are sculpture, mix-media, acrylic, or glass you may be called towards blue elements or round and flexible moments in the pieces that pull you towards a feeling of inner peace and softness.
The works may not share common colors but they may simply have the energy you’re seeking. You can even test your theory on friends, family, or colleagues. If the survey says that reflection bubbles to the surface for most onlookers, the blend may work well for the display.
Another, less abstract way of forming displays that will shift perspective and silence all the critics, is to theme the artwork styles.
For instance, you want an adventurous travel theme and have gathered works from different parts of the world you’ve visited. The items can all depict the nature of travel. Or if you want to show off the human form in dance, the artwork can display the flexibility and in contrast the rigidity of the human form with the blend of styles chosen.
Artwork styles and themes that work together
Here are some examples of themed displays pulled from multiple artwork styles:
Peace of Mind
Serene by Mary Pat Wallen
Sunlit Waves by Elena Bond
Douce folie by Melanie Giguere
Stela 3 by Alex Kveton
These pieces mingle well for multiple reasons.
If one was to put peace of mind into a manifesto that could only be displayed in art pieces, in no respective order… Stela 3 says peace of mind ought to be dependable, yet resilient, it recognizes that it will ebb and flow but it is still solid when the source of your peace of mind is stable.
Douce foile shows the softness of the state of peace of mind, settled by a sculpture that looks much like a deep belly breath when dawn breaks. Serene says peace of mind ought to be visible yet unassuming, it is the utter posture and animation of peace of mind if it were a person both organic and casual, not demanding but still powerfully composed.
Whilst Sunlit Waves is the umbrella by which all of these things flow, it is a representation of origin and of cause and effect. It is the compounding effect of what it means to absolutely “be” with contentment and reliability going and coming as all things are meant to, even peace of mind.
Use Your Pure Imagination When Combining Styles of Art
Sometimes what doesn’t go together, goes together best.
Art is about breaking the lines, the rules of logic…bending and disrupting infinitely.
Some pieces that make for a world all their own that understand that sharing is caring might look a bit like this.
CURATED MAC Client Installations
Fields of Joy by Bruce Rubenstein
Inanna Art of Dreams by Igor Grechanyk
The jacks cascading down the wall giggle with childlike amusement, they pull the inner child outside of its adult suit and ask it to imagine again and think in dreams instead of practicality.
Field of Joy pulls back the curtain of adulting and suggests we take ourselves a little less seriously. While Igor’s Inanna Art suggests there is more than meets the eye, and might we question what meets the eye a little more often, digging deeper to see what lies beyond.
Notice the contrast of the sculpture in the corner of the second floor in the final image. A feminine form bikini-clad dawning a bunny rabbit head is in the foreground. The painting on the wall in the background has such a display of freedom and coolness that can only be found in lines and “circles” that do not conform.
The two seen in the same photo are arresting and attention-grabbing. It challenges the onlooker’s expectations, and begs the question, how free are you?
“The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense”.
―Pablo Picasso
Allow the artwork you are drawn to, to tug on the artworks that they are drawn to. This magnetizing will help you create the display you could literally only dream of.
Say “yes” to the journey.
You must breathe new air to combine styles and create your next great art display
Anything I can not transform into something marvellous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
― Anais Nin
Art will always be the most unlimited display of humanness and nature.
It is meant to be a source of new air and can provide this in even a single display.
It also reflects an Armenian proverb a friend’s grandmother would tell her, about the necessity of breathing new air.
When blended just right or some may perceive it as just wrong, a new air supply can emerge shifting art lovers and humankind from one new perspective to the next.
Here’s to your next dashing art display.