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Karin & Carl Larsson Depiction of Swedish Interiors

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I recently received a lovely email out of the blue sending love from an old friend and asking whether my designs have been influenced by Karin Larsson. I had to say that I was not aware of her work, but I was intrigued and upon researching I discovered the story of the artist couple, Karin and Carl Larsson, and their home known as Lilla Hyttnäs located in Karin's hometown Sunborn in Sweden.

The couple met in 1883 at a Scandinavian artist's colony in France, before returning to Sweden to marry and start a family. Carl Larsson became a celebrated Swedish painter and Karin studied handicrafts at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1887. Women were able to train to be artists, but female artistry was usually seen as a mere pastime, to be abandoned when a woman got married.

This was true of Karin and she gave up professional art to devote herself to her family. She didn't stop being creative, however, and domestic life became her medium of self-expression. Her home became her canvas. Her brush was replaced by needle and thread. Her painter's palette became woollen threads and silks. She created a home for her family, so full of joy and character and design that we can still learn from today.

Lilla Hyttnäs was a far cry from the Victorian style interiors that were popular in Scandinavia in the early 19th century. Refusing to follow convention, Karin used motifs inspired by Swedish folk art traditions. She also took inspiration from the arts and crafts movement in Great Britain and even the 19th century fascination with Japonisme, which is when Japanese ukiyo-e prints started to become available for export to Europe.

Karin's joyful interiors and children soon became Carl's favourite subjects for his paintings and they had great influence on his work by tempting him to move away from dark oils to more illuminating and light-filled watercolours.

We can learn so much about the context of Karin's work through her husband's paintings that depict their beautifully contrived home. These are such joyous scenes showing a vibrant and loving family life. Take some time to admire the compositions and insights into their lives from a pre-instagram era.

Karin's work eventually came to the forefront when the first major exhibition of their work outside of Sweden opened at the V&A in London on 23 October 1997. It focused on the famous house they created at Sundborn in Sweden and its extraordinary impact on interior design world-wide over the last century.

The following text is taken from the exhibition:

"Karin was Carl Larsson's muse. So thoughtful and quiet, he portrayed her as his idol, forever young. She was, in fact, hard-working, hard headed and highly creative. Carl relied upon her as a critic of his work. She trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and Paris. After the birth of Suzanne in 1884 she turned her artistry to decorating the home, especially to weaving and embroidery. She also designed furniture and her own and her children's clothes. Her most creative period was between 1900 and 1910."

(L) Suzanne, (C) Brita at the Piano, (R) Lisbeth

This colourful artist couple's house is perhaps Sweden's most famous home and has become an icon for Swedish interior design.

Immortalised in the watercolor paintings by Carl Larsson, the artistic couple's light, colourful style has had an iconic impact on Swedish interior design since the late 19th century. Lilla Hyttnäs, located in the idyllic village Sundborn, is open all year round to visitors.

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Meet Karin and Carl Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style

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SONGMICS 15-kub gör-det-själv, förvaringsenhet, organisering, garderobsskåp i plast, garderob med dörrar för kläder, skor, leksaker, böcker, lätt att montera, vit, LPC44BS

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SONGMICS 15-kub gör-det-själv, förvaringsenhet, organisering, garderobsskåp i plast, garderob med dörrar för kläder, skor, leksaker, böcker, lätt att montera, vit, LPC44BS : Amazon.se: Hem & kök

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Ett termoplastiskt, formbart skivmaterial i ark. Materialet är populärt bland annat hos attributörer och Cos-playartister. Du klipper efter mönster eller på fri hand, formar med varmluft (90 °), hett vatten eller ånga.

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Ett termoplastiskt, formbart skivmaterial i ark. Materialet är populärt bland annat hos attributörer och Cos-playartister. Du klipper efter mönster eller på fri hand, formar med varmluft (90 °), hett vatten eller ånga.

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The interior portrait ( portrait d'intérieur) or, in German, Zimmerbild (room picture), is a pictorial genre that appeared in Europe near the end of the 17th century and enjoyed a great vogue in the second half of the 19th century. It involves a careful, detailed representation of a living space, without any people. These paintings were generally rendered as watercolors and required great technical mastery, if little creativity. By the mid-20th century, although such scenes were still being created, photography had changed this style of painting into a form of intentional archaism.

The interior portrait should not be confused with what is called a " conversation piece" in England; a term which designates a scene with a group of people engaged in some activity and often placed outdoors. The true interior piece shows only the room and decor, although previous activity may be suggested by the placement of articles in the room.

This type of scene first appears near the end of the 17th century. At that time, the intent was entirely descriptive. They were usually done specifically to show the contents of an art gallery, personal library or cabinet of curiosities. One of the first known examples depicts the library of Samuel Pepys in London, dating from 1693. They are still valued today by researchers and decorators. In the case of Pepys, it can be seen, firsthand, how a scholar of that time arranges his books in a bookcase (an innovation at that time), uses a lectern, places cushions for his comfort, hangs maps, etc.

It was not until the last quarter of the 18th century that a new type of interior portrait with a different intent made its appearance. This type first arose in architectural firms and was done for the benefit of their clients. Great architects such as the James Adam and his brother Robert Adam of Scotland and François-Joseph Bélanger would execute watercolors of their previous projects to entice prospective customers. This created a fad among the wealthy and the nobility to commission paintings of their own rooms, to show off and preserve for posterity. These paintings were often compiled into albums. This craze was particularly prevalent in England. From there, it spread widely throughout Europe.

The first historically important example of the interior portrait represents a small art gallery set up by the Empress Josephine at Malmaison in 1812. In this watercolor by Auguste-Siméon Garneray, we can see her harp, art collection and her shawl, left on an armchair. Thus a new element appears: the psychological elements of the décor and a palpable human presence. One can feel the owner's emotions and thoughts. In this sense, the paintings have truly become "portraits".

The immense popularity of these paintings in the 19th century can be explained by many factors. Among the nouveau-riche and the bourgeoisie, great importance was given to the home as a place of comfort, intimacy and family. This period also saw a specialization (e.g. separate dining rooms) that were once known only to the very wealthy. These new "middle-classes" were also eager to copy aristocratic tastes and industrialization made a much wider variety of furniture easily affordable. Finally, decorative styles were constantly being changed and resurrected, so interior portraits were a way of preserving one's memories and bequeathing them to the next generation.

Queen Victoria was very fond of these portraits as they allowed her to give the public a look at her loving family life and the comforts of home in a tasteful manner. The craze was thereby spread throughout the Royal Families of Europe. Due to the number of lavishly decorated palaces they possessed ( The Winter Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina Palace, Peterhof Palace, Pavlovsk Palace...), the Tsars were among the most enthusiastic commissioners of interior portraits. Virtually all of their rooms (except the most private ones) were rendered at least once; some several times. These watercolors are considered to be among the best of their genre.

At a time when every cultured young woman learned to paint watercolors, many painted their own rooms or the ones where they were given their lessons. Most of the surviving examples are anonymous and rarely of high quality, but they often have a charm that compensates for what they lack in technical expertise.

However, some members of the aristocracy had real talent, verging on the professional. The Polish Count Artur Potocki, for example, travelled widely, painting watercolors of the hotel rooms and other places where he stayed, from Rome to London.

Nevertheless, virtually all the highest-quality works were produced by professionals with exceptional virtuosity in watercolors and a mastery of perspective...especially conical perspective, with two or three vanishing points, which produces an eerily photographic effect for modern eyes.

With only a few exceptions, such as Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Eugène Lami of France, architect John Nash and furniture-maker Thomas Sheraton (both of England), few artists who dealt exclusively with these portraits are still familiar today. Among some notable artists who produced them, not previously mentioned:

In England: William Henry Hunt, Mary Ellen Best, William Henry Pyne.

In France: Charles Percier, Adrien Dauzats.

In Germany and Austria: Ferdinand Rothbart, Rudolf von Alt, Eduard Gaertner, Emanuel Stöckler.

In Russia: Eduard Hau, Vasily Sadovnikov, Konstantin Ukhtomsky, Grigory Chernetsov, Nikanor Chernetsov (his brother), Alexander Brullov, Karl Brullov (his brother), Pyotr Sokolov, Orest Kiprensky, Alexey Venetsianov.

In Poland, Aleksander Gryglewski.

House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, Cooper-Hewith National Design Museum (a division of the Smithsonian, New York, 12 August 2008 - 25 January 2009

Mario Praz - Scènes d'intérieur, Bibliothèque Marmottan, Boulogne-Billancourt, 20 November 2002 - 15 February 2003

Patrick Favardin, Scènes d'intérieur, Aquarelles des collections Mario Praz et Chigi, Norma, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-909283-73-9

Patrick Mauriès, Alexandre Serebriakoff. portraitiste d'intérieurs, Franco Maria Ricci, Paris 1990, ISBN 978-88-216-2038-6

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The interior portrait ( portrait d'intérieur) or, in German, Zimmerbild (room picture), is a pictorial genre that appeared in Europe near the end of the 17th century and enjoyed a great vogue in the second half of the 19th century. It involves a careful, detailed representation of a living space, without any people.

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Room boxes are small boxes designed to hold a single room scale display for miniatures and models. A room box can be built in any scale, and they are often used to house a display until a larger collection is completed. If room boxes are designed to standard dimensions, they can be fitted into cases called "baby houses," which resemble a full-size dollhouse.

Room boxes are deeper than window boxes and usually show one or more complete rooms, including entire one-room shops or houses, potting sheds, and garages. Window boxes differ from room boxes in that they usually display only one view of a vignette, and are usually no deeper than three or four inches.

Sturdy room boxes in a range of sizes with or without front glass frames can be easily built from baltic birch plywood, a lightweight finished plywood often available as aircraft plywood from model suppliers. You can use a section of routed plywood to make a channel for a sliding section of glass for the front of your room box, or you can build standard glass fronted picture frames and hinge them to the room box front.

Try Book Board or Davey Board

Inexpensive room boxes can be quickly built from sturdy paper book board or Davey Board, which is an acid-neutral form of card used for the covers of bound books and available from most art supply stores. Bookboard can be used with set in dollhouse windows and doors and makes good displays for models and miniatures.

It is especially good for school displays where costs must be minimal or for placement inside baby houses, dollhouse bookcases, or glass-fronted bookcases, where a collection of simple room boxes can be used to finish a dollhouse room by room.

A breakaway box is usually a book board or Davey board box with one or two hinged sides that fold down to show off a display. They are often used as play settings for children as they are easily opened and stored. If you only want to view a room box occasionally and like to keep things neatly stored, breakaway boxes are a good alternative to room boxes and an excellent way to build a simple miniature collection for a child's play.

Like standard room boxes made from Davey board, breakaway boxes can have standard dollhouse windows and doors fitted to their interiors.

Use an Inexpensive Display Box

Many companies sell inexpensive display boxes to house collectibles. These instructions show you how you can use these boxes (often available from big box stores) to set up a display for small collectibles or a dollhouse scene or vignette.

Plan Effective Room Box Displays

As room boxes are very small, focused displays, you need to get maximum use out of your space. Make sure you choose a theme and storyline as well as create focal points.

Ways to Improve Your Miniature Collection

Careful planning, as well as some of the frugal tips on this list, can help you create great displays for less money. This is true of all miniature displays but especially true for room boxes, where careful design can reduce your costs considerably.

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Do This When Building Room Boxes to Display Models and Miniatures

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Room boxes are small boxes designed to hold a single room scale display for miniatures and models. A room box can be built in any scale, and they are often used to house a display until a larger collection is completed.

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Build your own roomboxes, backdrops, figures, and miniatures

Dioramas and models can be a fun way to meet course requirements or display a concept for a class project. This list of miniatures and displays can help you create a range of inexpensive parts and figures to fill out your diorama or model scene.

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Easy Ways to Make Your Project Diorama Special

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Build your own roomboxes, backdrops, figures, and miniatures Dioramas and models can be a fun way to meet course requirements or display a concept for a class project. This list of miniatures and displays can help you create a range of inexpensive parts and figures to fill out your diorama or model scene.

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In the nineteenth century, proud householders commissioned painters to record their dwellings, much as today's owners might take a photograph. These charming watercolors portrayed with faithful accuracy the shape of rooms, the organization of the furniture, the patterns of carpets, or the drape of window hangings. People of all kinds had their homes immortalized, from humble vicars and artists to the grandest families of Europe.
Published to accompany an extraordinary exhibition of watercolor views at The Frick Collection in New York, this handsome volume includes illustrations of more than sixty nineteenth-century interiors: from cottages to palaces, from an emperor's chambers in Portugal to the bedroom of a Russian dacha. They originate from two private collections - one American, the other European - which together provide a unique survey of this highly specialized genre. One group offers an illustrated history of interiors, spanning the heyday of these drawings. The other comes from an album compiled for the princely Wittgenstein family, and commemorates the houses they owned in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and England.
Charlotte Gere, the noted authority on nineteenth-century decoration, provides commentaries which perfectly complement the reproductions. Combining consummate scholarship with a rich background knowledge of the period, she identifies objects, describes fashions in furnishings, quotes from travel diaries and memoirs, and explains the social and family functions of each room.
Perhaps no other form of art provides such a vivid picture of how people lived in the nineteenth century. Here is a chance to enjoy the beauty and the fascination of these delightful mementos from a vanished way of life.

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Nineteenth Century Interiors: An Album of Watercolors

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In the nineteenth century, proud householders commissioned painters to record their dwellings, much as today's owners might take a photograph. These charming watercolors portrayed with faithful accuracy the shape of rooms, the organization of the furniture, the patterns of carpets, or the drape o...

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Not all materials for miniature building, such as dollhouses, are created alike. Although many people think of balsa wood as the easiest building material, most miniaturists only use that for lightweight toys or other objects that don't need a lot of strength. Your choice of material for miniature building may change your choice of components, such as windows and doors, or determine how you should best finish your house.

Each type of material has pros and cons. Before you start construction of a model building, read about these materials to familiarize yourself with the tools, techniques, and characteristics of the various building materials.

Luan Plywood (Philippine Mahogany)

Luan plywood, sometimes referred to as lauan, is often the material used for less-expensive dollhouse kits. It is an easily worked material but requires more finishing work than some other choices. In kits, this plywood is often die-cut and assembled using tab-and-slot construction methods rather than nails or screws. Buildings made with thin luan will need to use doors and windows designed to fit in this material. It is also more difficult to set up round wire routes through laun, as floors and walls may be too thin to score for wiring channels. Luan plywood is available from building supply stores in the form of "door skins" for refacing interior doors.

Sheet styrene can be bent and shaped, as well as glued, to make buildings and other models. It is most often used to scratch-build railroad model buildings and rolling stock, but can be used for other types of miniature building as well.

Creative Paperclay is a useful medium for creating miniature plaster, stucco, pargetting, stone tiles, tiled floors and walls, landscaping rock and stone effects, or small three-dimensional miniatures or sculptures. With handling properties very similar to fine clay, this is a safe, easy way to create strong lightweight miniatures that don't need curing, other than a protective coat of sealant.

Coroplast is essentially plastic with a cardboard channel construction. Although it can be used for short-term buildings or as covers for part of outdoor models, it's main uses for models and miniatures are for making storage boxes, which are acid-neutral. Like cardboard, it is easily scored along one side of channel walls and then bent to form straight folds.

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The Best Materials for Scale Models and Dollhouses

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Not all materials for miniature building, such as dollhouses, are created alike. Although many people think of balsa wood as the easiest building material, most miniaturists only use that for lightweight toys or other objects that don't need a lot of strength.

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Building a diorama is a fun DIY project in which you can create an exciting scene in a small space. Dioramas allow a lot of room for creativity and innovation. Though dioramas usually display a historical time period, a nature scene, or a...

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Art State of Mind

Kate Wojtczak min Read

Atelier Décor inspired by Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paintings of historical interiors are fascinating hybrid images - midway between the work of a great artist's imagination and a document of the past. Thanks to the project Atelier Décor held by HomeAdvisor we can learn how rooms from famous paintings would look like in real life.

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Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam[/caption]

Famous artists often worked from 'real life' scenarios. Therefore, paintings like Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom or Kandinsky's My Dining Room could be labeled as historical records. They tell us as much about the painter's state of mind as they do about home décor trends of the 19th or early 20th century.

For today's artistically-inclined interior designers, the existence of such paintings is a gift: the chance to see forgotten furniture and color combinations through the eyes of a genius. For everyone else, imagining how those rooms might look in real life takes a bit more work. This got the Atelier Décor's team thinking, what did these household settings from famous paintings look like in the real world? What if instead of a painting, the artists were to have taken as photograph?

For this project, they trawled through well-known paintings by famous artists around the world and identified 6 different rooms around the home:

1. Wassily Kandinsky - My Dining Room

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Interior (My dining room), 1909, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany[/caption]

2. Konstantin Korovin - Interior

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Konstantin Korovin, Interior, 1913, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia[/caption]

3. Grant Wood - The Sun Shine on the Corner

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Grant Wood, The Sun Shine on the Corner, 1928[/caption]

4. Roy Lichtenstein - Interior with Restful Paintings

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Restful Paintings, 1991, Museu Coleção Berardo[/caption]

5. Eduard Petrovich Hau - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Eduard Petrovich Hau - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room , Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1855, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York[/caption]

6. Vincent van Gogh - The Bedroom

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Atelier Décor gif inspired by Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands[/caption]

Read also the story of Vincent van Gogh's bedroom and its three versions here!

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6 Rooms from Famous Paintings Brought to Real Life

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The Banality of Everyday Life: Domestic Interiors painted by...

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Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter known for his low-key atmospheres and his very limited palette of grey tones and mostly desaturated hues used to depict architecture, landscapes and portraits. However the artist is mostly celebrated for his interiors, enfilades, contrejours...

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Peter Copping fondly recalls visiting the British Museum as a child and taking in the sight of the Portland Vase, that blue-black glass marvel that dates back to Roman times. Now, an Elizabeth II silver-gilt replica from 1973 can be found in his dreamy, centuries-old manor in Normandy, France-at least in the decorative arts fantasy rendered by London-based room portrait artist SJ Axelby.

Copping, an avid collector and the former artistic director of Oscar de la Renta, was approached by Christie's to handpick lots from its The Collector: Online sale that he would enjoy furnishing his abode with. (The online component just kicked off and will run through May 20, while The Collector: Live is set to take place in London on May 19.) For Copping, long smitten with auction catalogs, "it was a complete dream" to visualize these antiques from the 17th through 20th centuries adorning six rooms at La Carlière, the country estate he shares with his husband, floral designer Rambert Rigaud. Those grand, colorful spaces were then brought to life in Axelby's mixed-media paintings.

"It was like going on a major shopping spree," Copping tells AD PRO. "Afterward, I was able to look at these pieces in watercolor, interpreted by the artist through the lens of La Carlière, and it was a nice way to see them."

The copy of the Portland Vase, which Copping found best suited to the Petit Salon, sparked a powerful memory. But other treasures he selected for these vignettes, like a large Art Nouveau-style Wedgwood Fairytale Lustre 'Temple on a Rock' vase from 1925, were a more surprising choice, he admits: "It had such gorgeous colors and was in perfect harmony with the bookcase housing my collection of The World of Interiors magazines."

Axelby's aspirational depictions of La Carlière, which also showcase Copping's own line of handmade cushions named for his home, are enchanting. The Christie's lots seamlessly mixed with Copping and Rigaud's everyday layout. The dining room, with its elaborate, late-17th-century ebonized cabinet melding Italian gilt bronze, marble, and ivory-inlaid rosewood, for example, appears as if it has always been a backdrop to a meal served out of the Chelsea porcelain 'Hen and Chickens' tureen from 1755, or that someone has just stood up from one of the mid 18th-century dark blue velvet Venetian Lacca armchairs in the guest bedroom.

Take a step back, however, and the appealingly retro air evident in Axelby's work feels part of a broader mini moment. There are the new illustrations of Jane Black, as well as an exhibition at the New York gallery Eerdmans. Suggesting, when taken together, that this delightful genre is making a welcome comeback.

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Paintings of Interiors Are Totally Trending

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Peter Copping fondly recalls visiting the British Museum as a child and taking in the sight of the Portland Vase, that blue-black glass marvel that dates back to Roman times. Now, an Elizabeth II silver-gilt replica from 1973 can be found in his dreamy, centuries-old manor in Normandy, France-at least in the decorative arts fantasy rendered by London-based room portrait artist SJ Axelby.

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8,207 artworks, 1,870 artists

Interior painting (fr. interieur - "interior") is an image of the interior decoration of a room or building on the canvas. Art critics called this genre "chamber art". In such works, artists show the size, design and function of the room, emphasizing the elements of the era, as well as the national and social affiliation of people. The genre depicts a person's life through the world of things around him/her. The philosopher Georg Hegel called the interior "a kind of human clothing".

The elements of the interior art appeared on the canvases of the Renaissance artists and they formed a full-fledged direction at the beginning of the 17th century, primarily in Dutch painting. The bourgeois era created a kind of cult of things and glorified the everyday life of man. After the images of people and saints, "portraits of premises" arose. By the end of the 20th century, interior painting became widespread in Europe and Russia. The subjects, styles and painting techniques developed along with historical events and social changes. The images of the interiors made it possible to see the life of peoples, families or individuals through their household items.

The 17th century artists emphasized the poetry of everyday life in their works when they portrayed their subjects surrounded with furniture. The light from the window or the hearth became the subjects of the paintings, along with static cooks or artisans. Later in the 19th century, interior painting became a chronicle of the time, fixing the life and actions of people. The 20th century brought the intellectual and technical manifestations of the artists' creative search into the genre, turned the interior from a room portrait into an allegorical portrait of personality and time.

In portraiture and genre painting, the interior acts as a backdrop for the main subject matters, it remains only an additional theme. In historical scenes, it helps to convey the realism of the events depicted, emphasizes drama and enhances the impact on the viewer.

The "chamber art" requires a realistic image of objects and space, so artists improved themselves in applying the technique of light and shadow, volume, texture and perspective depicting. A careful selection of colors and shades makes the interior alive, attracts interest and confidence of the viewer.

Interior genre paintings:
" Dutch Girl at Breakfast" 1757 by Jean-Étienne Liotard; " The Old Burgtheater" 1889 by Gustav Klimt; " Interior with a Woman at Piano" 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershøi; " The Billiard Table " 1945 by Georges Braque.

The famous artists who depicted the interior in their works: Cornelis Dusart, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Jacques-Louis David, Pavel Fedotov, Ilya Repin, Henri Matisse.

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Interior in Painting - History, Artworks, Artists

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In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now | The Fralin Museum of Art, U.Va.

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Interiors by Egon Schiele - Wikimedia Commons

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Images from the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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At Palais de Tokyo, selections from nearly two centuries of enclosed models cater to our eagerness to be voyeurs.