In a modern home, the living room serves as a ceremonial room, which the owners strive to make bright and memorable. Do you want aristocracy or oriental flavor? Picturesque masterpieces not affordable? In such cases, you should pay attention to the frescoes.
It is necessary to distinguish the art of fresco from other types of painting. The main thing and fundamental difference frescoes from painting on walls - application to wet plaster.
Let's turn to history
It is not known for certain when the first fresco appeared, but two millennia before new era they already knew about this painting technique. Its main advantage is durability. In the heyday of wall painting, a fresco was considered not only a measure of the artist's skill, but also an indicator of the status and well-being of its owner.
Modern frescoes
Significantly differ from ancient relatives and materials used for manufacturing, and a variety of techniques for applying a pictorial image, and the time it takes to create.
Fresco in modern interior not necessarily a wall or ceiling decoration. Today it can appear on doors, cornices, columns and even furniture.
With elastic plaster
Closest to classic look frescoes. It is also the most expensive one. Painting, as before, is done on wet plaster, but they add modern materials, which allows the surface to stay moist longer, which means that the master has more time to apply the pattern.
The use of such a fresco in the interior of the living room will make it unusual, and the hand-applied drawing will add uniqueness.
On cotton canvas
An expensive option, as it is made from natural materials... The finished image is visually and tactilely perceived as plaster applied directly to the wall. This is facilitated by hand-painted paints on natural pigments.
For greater reliability, craquelure is used, and then scuffs and a mesh of small cracks form in the picture. Images like this are ideal for large spaces, and if a classic plot is chosen for the painting, then the room becomes a replica of the palace halls.
The fresco is also excellent investment funds. It is practical, low maintenance and very durable. The image remains bright even after many years.
When choosing a design for a living room with a fresco, it is better to choose an artistic motive based on the unobtrusiveness of the plots, which will allow them to remain relevant for a long time.
If you don't have funds for canvas, you can always choose a non-woven option. There is no manual work here, therefore, the price is much lower. Although outwardly they look no worse than drawings on canvas. Such a fresco can be assembled within one day.
Tasks solved by a fresco on the living room wall in a modern interior:
- Allows you to visually expand the space due to the illusion of the presence of elements outside the plot picture.
- Increase the volume and height of a room with perspective images. Usually these are landscapes, images architectural elements, panoramas of other rooms.
- Zoning of the kitchen-living room.
- Framed with a baguette, imitates a picture.
Scenes suitable for the living room
There are many of them, as in the presented photos of the frescoes in the living rooms.
Once upon a time only religious subjects were chosen for frescoes. Today they are much more diverse, but views from the window, idealized nature, and pastorals are still popular. Their purpose is to add fabulousness and romance to the interior.
The room in which family and friends gather should not be unpleasant, so it is especially important to find the harmony of color, theme and technique.
Since our consciousness positively perceives the natural palette, the most a good decision for the living room are landscapes: images of green fields, vineyards. They create an atmosphere of comfort and freshness.
If the living room is combined with the dining room, then reproductions of still lifes by the old masters, depicting fruits, game, flowers in an extremely realistic way, will perfectly fit into the interior.
Fit and plot pictures... A certain incompleteness of such works creates the effect of presence. There are frescoes with portraits. If a decision is made to portray someone's face, then designers are advised to dwell on motivational portraits. Such frescoes are not suitable for everyone; they are recommended for motivated and creative people.
Usually the interior of the living room is “built” around a fresco, but if it is required to “fit” into the existing image of the room, then a plot should be chosen either corresponding to the current situation, or exploding and breaking the usual stereotypes. For example, an image of modern high-tech cars can easily appear in a baroque interior.
Ornament is quite universal. Floral, geometric, monochrome - there are enough options to choose patterns that fit a given style.
Ornamental decoration will give the living room an oriental style, and the interior in japanese style reinforce the hieroglyphic writing.
It is widely believed that the interior of a living room with a fresco on the wall should be made in the classicist, gothic or other old style. And this is so, the fresco here emphasizes the involvement in history.
But who forbade the transfer of modern street graffiti to the fresco? You can do the same with your favorite poster. IN last years industrial landscapes are increasingly appearing on frescoes, which creates an unusual contrast between the theme of the work and the technique of its execution.
As a summary
You should not look for ready-made solutions, you need to choose what you like. The main thing is that the image fits the character and mood of the owner of the living room. After all, the fresco, like a kind of time machine, combines deep antiquity and sharply fashionable minimalism and loft.
Photo murals in the living room
IN modern world the fresco on the wall is both a tribute to high art and original decoration interior, and a sign of exquisite taste. In ancient temples and medieval basilicas, in the chambers of kings and pharaohs, the artistic painting of the walls created a special atmosphere of grandeur and unearthly beauty. The rhythm of life has changed, new materials have appeared, but the fresco has not lost its significance and still adorns our homes.
Types of modern frescoes
The classic mural is a wall painting by raw plaster... So they were written by the brilliant Raphael and Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Vasari. Traditional technology painting on wet was a laborious and transient process. The master had to flawlessly execute his masterpiece in one day, otherwise the layer of plaster dried out quickly and nothing could be fixed. The frescoes were expensive and decorated only rich dwellings.
Today, frescoes on the walls in the interiors of city apartments can be executed in various manners, and do not depend on the artist's talent or time. Today the market is filled with companies offering different ways making frescoes at an affordable cost for many.
Fresco on canvas created by hand, from natural materials. A special composition is applied to the canvas, then a drawing made with natural pigments. To make the fresco realistic, it is artificially aged, prescribing cracks and scuffs. The finished canvas can be purchased on a roll or on a stretcher. The fresco is glued to the wall with ordinary glue. In order for the image to keep the "fresh" background for a long time, it is covered with wax. The only drawback of the fresco on canvas is that it cannot be washed.
Self-adhesive fresco Is an artistic imitation, comparable to textured wallpaper. As a plaster, a paste of river sand is used, which is evenly distributed over the self-adhesive base. An image is digitally applied to it. Then the mural is glued to the wall. The disadvantages of the product include the small thickness of the plaster layer. If you glue a fresco to a wall with defects, all of them will certainly show through it. In addition, it will not be possible to age such a picture, and it will look like ordinary ones.
Non-woven fresco - this is the best option for the design of large areas. Outwardly, they look like murals on canvas, but they are much cheaper. The plot is done using a printer or more sophisticated techniques. In the image, composed of several fragments, the joints are not visible, but they are attached with glue specially designed for non-woven wallpaper.
Frescoes on a rigid base look no worse than on canvas or non-woven fabric, but have heavy weight, so they are executed in a small format.
Fresco on elastic plaster - this is the closest option to the old works. Manufactured according to Italian technology. The base of the fresco is additionally reinforced with a mounting mesh. The painting uses environmentally friendly, safe for health paints... Fastened to the wall with mounting glue. In the cons of the form high price works.
There are several options for making wall frescoes, so you always have a choice both in price and in technique. The selection of picturesque subjects is even wider.
Important! Correlate all the pros and cons, choose the best option and be sure to pay attention to the disadvantages of the types presented, and then your choice will be unmistakable.
Fresco in the interior
Transition from complex handmade to industrial production led to the fact that the decorative fresco on the wall became available to many. Having decided on the type of fresco, we just have to choose a drawing that will decorate our interior.
Modern and vintage wall murals are presented in a variety of ready-made scenes. In addition, we have the opportunity to offer the manufacturer our own version of the image. How to choose a drawing, what to focus on and what to be guided by?
We focus on the room in which the fresco will be placed. Since only on a large scale does a fresco acquire value as decorative element interior, we take into account both the dimensions of the room itself, and the size of the wall on which it will be installed. Then we match the drawing to the style of the room.
Advice! Though modern technologies allow you to add a fresco to the interior at any stage of renovation or decoration of the room, it is better to decide on the plot and genre of the image in advance
A picturesque fresco on the wall in the living room tends, as a rule, to the classics. Most owners use reproductions in it. paintings famous masters of the Renaissance. However, the plots on the theme of a given style fit no less organically into the general mood of the front room. In the oriental flavor, these can be scenes with the fauna and flora of the East. For mediterranean interior a priori, the sea and everything connected with it comes up. In high-tech, an urban landscape or an abstract series of tunnels is appropriate, and for rustic style suitable field rye or strawberry meadow.
A special case is the fresco on the wall in the kitchen, where she will have to live next to fire and water. First of all, it must be resistant to all irritants. In the plots, we again agree with the genre of the interior and our own preferences. If the size of the room allows, you can add
The palace interiors amaze with their grandeur. An obligatory attribute of such rooms is skillfully executed wall paintings - frescoes. Not so long ago, furniture walls made of chipboard were installed in city apartments, and the room was decorated with ordinary wallpaper. Now frescoes in the interior are found more and more often. After all, decorating a wall in this way is not much more difficult than gluing ordinary photo wallpaper at home.
Frescoes in the interior of the kitchen
Room design with frescoes on the wall
Living room interior with frescoes on the wall
Murals with a landscape on the wall
In the classical sense, a fresco is a type of painting that involves the application of paints to plaster by an artist. Construction technologies have stepped far forward, now the range of frescoes has expanded significantly. You can even buy a digitally printed one and not pay for a professional artist. Modern frescoes can be placed on the wall, floor or ceiling.
There are several types of frescoes:
- Non-woven - a thin layer of plaster is applied to a non-woven fabric. Of all the varieties, this one is the easiest to glue. The sheet is attached like a regular non-woven wallpaper.
- For raw plaster - the classic option, the most expensive. The artist applies painting to the freshly laid putty. No more than a day is given to work, yet. The master must be a real professional, because you cannot make corrections on the wall.
- On dry plaster - perfect solution for the kitchen or bathroom. High-strength plaster is applied, so the fresco in the interior does not deteriorate in the sun or from high humidity.
- Canvas is a very expensive way to decorate an interior. The artist paints a canvas covered with a primer with natural pigments. Ready option You cannot buy for the house, you will have to call the master at home. The surface is artificially aged and covered with a protective wax coating.
- Craquelure or aging effect - decorative cracks and scuffs form in the image. The effect is achieved by adding marble chips.
- On a rigid base - a picture is made with a solid base - from polymer, wood or ceramics. Since the construction is quite heavy, you cannot make a large image.
- On sand - non-woven panels are used, covered with fine-grained plaster.
Benefits of frescoes
Not everyone knows how interior frescoes often look better. regular wallpaper... If you need to get a stylish interior, then given view decor will come in handy. Positive traits murals are listed below.
- Modern frescoes made by means of photographic printing are difficult to distinguish from the original.
- Firms offer ready-made solutions, and also work with individual orders.
- They can visually increase the space.
- Walls can be cleaned with detergentswithout fear that the decorative coating will be damaged.
- They adhere perfectly to both walls and ceilings.
- Modern technologies make it possible to print even complex images.
- High print quality and artistic paints allows you to get a fresco in the interior that will look stylish at any time.
- The fresco can be admired every day, it will retain its impeccable aesthetic qualities for a long time.
Frescoes with a lion in the interior
Living room with frescoes
Frescoes in the interior of the room
Frescoes in the interior of the bedroom with the image of trees
Children's room with frescoes on the wall
Views and images
In addition to traditional paintings, photo-printed frescoes are sold. They are printed on printers on an industrial scale or in limited quantities. Many people buy such models, as they fit perfectly into the modern interior. Most popular and modern varieties are presented below.
- Reproductions - you can place a copy of a famous painter's canvas on the entire wall.
- Classic - like in the days of kings. Now you can buy a fresco with an antique or religious theme. For semi-antique interiors, miniatures are suitable, which depict ladies in antique dresses or scenes from life.
- A pattern or an abstract drawing - most often done on a stencil, will cost less than the classical method.
- Floral ornaments - will make a gloomy room with windows to the north look like a fragrant garden. Typically, such frescoes depict large inflorescences that will look good in a room with low ceilings.
- Landscape - there is unlimited scope for imagination. You can place an image with a cozy meadow, a sunny beach, wild nature, rocks, forests, parks. The fresco looks especially good in an interior with a false window, which offers a breathtaking view.
- City - a street with houses will fill the room with energy, you can choose small townok with small houses or a large metropolis, for example, views are very popular Eiffel tower in Paris.
Council. To decorate the ceiling and walls in palace style, you can frame the selected subject with a frame covered with golden paint.
Room design with frescoes
Beautiful frescoes in the interior
Corridor design with frescoes
Frescoes in the interior of the apartment
Murals on the wall with a pattern of nature
Use in the interior
Frescoes in the interior can serve as a background for furniture or simply set positive mood... But much more often, these elements play a dominant role, set the tone for the entire room. The purpose of the room in which the fresco is planned to be installed should be taken into account.
For a bedroom, a restrained color scheme in pastel colors is most suitable.
Will look good in the kitchen floral ornaments and warm shades. It is advisable not to place the wall mural near the stove, as it can get dirty with drops of fat during cooking.
The fresco in the interior of the living room should correspond to the general appearance of the house and please the household members. But you can make it very bright and pompous, then you will always have the opportunity to impress guests or relatives.
Frescoes with a picture of the Eiffel Tower on the wall
Frescoes on the wall in the interior
Beautiful landscape on the wall
Wall decor with frescoes
Beautiful large drawing on the living room wall
The element of water dominates in the bathroom, there you can depict a miniature with fish or mythical creatures from the underwater world.
Council. Now they are using frescoes in stylish interior children's room. There you can use images from your favorite baby cartoons or funny animals.
How to glue a mural
If you decide to choose a ready-made mural for your home, you can attach it yourself. But if the surface to be glued is uneven or of a complex configuration, the help of professionals may be needed. Many hire a master only if they order hand-painted painting. In this case, the work is done in several stages.
- Remove with a spatula old paint or wallpaper. You may need to wash the wall.
- First, the surface is treated with a primer.
- Depressions and cracks are repaired using a putty.
- Defects are hidden with cement plaster.
- After that, the surface is sanded using a board soaked in water.
- When the wall dries up, plaster is applied.
Large frescoes on the wall in the interior
Living room design with frescoes
Bathroom with frescoes
Frescoes in the interior of the living room
Frescoes in the interior
The drawing is applied according to a pencil sketch or using a stencil. Now you can proceed to applying the coloring layer. For convenience, the pattern is applied from top to bottom. Finally, you can fix the result with varnish.
As for non-woven frescoes, it is most convenient to use modern seamless ones at home. A roll 3 meters wide is often enough to cover the entire wall. If you have previously done wallpaper, there should be no problem.
Video: Frescoes on the wall. Decorative wall covering. Frescoes in the interior
Modern materials amaze the imagination, you can decorate any room with artistic painting, antique elements of temples.
Interior murals are quickly becoming popular, creating an aura of majestic medieval beauty.
Classification of frescoes
Wall materials have become so diverse that the frescoes in home interior became available. Consider the types of murals in detail:
Classic frescoes
The technique of drawing a picture on a raw plaster, as in antiquity. Michelangelo and Leonado da Vinci painted huge areas in the traditional manner for 1 day.
The complex process did not allow for fixes. The high cost and laboriousness makes this painting almost impossible.
Fresco on canvas
The drawing is applied to a canvas previously coated with a specialized compound. Natural pigments replace paints. For realism, the image is artificially "aged".
When coated with wax, this type of fresco will last for many years.
Self-adhesive frescoes
They look like textured wallpaper (photo wallpaper). Small layer special plaster applied to a self-adhesive base, then glued to the wall.
Beforehand, the wall must be perfectly leveled, there is no way to "age" the surface.
Frescoes on non-woven
Such decor is more often used on large areas, it differs little from the frescoes on canvas. This is a more complex method, the drawing (photo) is made on a printer with a base for non-woven wallpaper.
Frescoes on a rigid base
They are used for the base wood, plastic or ceramics with imitation of chips and small cracks.
The disadvantage is the large weight of the fresco. Small size frescoes will fit perfectly into small room, and "lost" - in the spacious.
Fresco on elastic plaster
This type of fresco is close to the classics. The difference is the slow drying of the plaster, which means that the master has more time to work. The drawing is manually applied to the wall, so the price is high.
There are many options for mural designs. The choice depends on the wishes of the customer and his capabilities.
You can create frescoes in the interior of a hall, bedroom, children's room, kitchen, even a hallway. The main thing is that the image matches the functionality of the room and its design.
How to correctly fill in the frescoes?
Nanotechnology in finishing materialsmade murals a possible design element.
The interior of a kitchen or other room also depends on the characteristics of the room. The size of the wall should be taken into account, color range, theme.
The intended room environment should also be considered. For example, if the interior of the bedroom is strict, then a drawing from the "Abstraction" series or from high-tech will not work.
The frescoes in the living room are large-scale canvases on the entire wall, this is a large space for decor. Most often, they use city panoramas, landscapes, flowers. If the living room has wicker furniture, then the seaside are suitable.
Frescoes for the kitchen should be chosen taking into account high humidity, where high temperatures are possible. The plot according to the preferences of the home owners and the style: still lifes, floral prints, landscapes, etc.
The frescoes in the bedroom should convey serenity and tenderness. Romantic landscapes, nautical themes, sky photos, resort panoramas will do.
The color of the paintings should be soft shades. These are peach, pink, creamy, as well as blue, salad, lilac, sand shades.
Murals in the children's room in accordance with the age of the child. Plots from fairy tales, cartoons, images of princesses, elves, gnomes are ideal for small children.
They like animals, butterflies, birds, cars. It can be a hobby (sports, dancing, music).
Beautiful drawings with 3D effect will expand any room.
Photo of frescoes in the interior
What do we know about the fresco? In Italy, where the term "fresco" itself appeared, this is the name for any painting of works of architecture. The fresco was also known to Paleolithic artists who painted hunting scenes on the walls of their caves. IN various techniques the frescoes were performed by their brilliant paintings by Dionysius and Andrei Rublev, Michelangelo and Raphael. Frescoes on the wall in the interior 65 design ideas:
In one of the famous letters of Pascal, the words of Michelangelo are quoted, who, comparing fresco painting and oil painting, said that the latter is only a game. Indeed, wall painting strives to achieve qualitatively different results. And, who knows, perhaps it is the immobility of the fresco in the interior that is the main obstacle to its adaptation in the modern interior, which is organically alien to any constancy.
From the history of the fresco
Towards the end of the second millennium of Christianity, the relationship between different kinds art has become completely different than throughout the history of mankind. In practical terms, this resulted in the self-isolation of each art form. If in the ancient era or during the Renaissance, the same fresco, along with the architectural decor, was an indispensable part of the home interior.
Today, both in the West and in the East, the best decoration walls are considered a reproduction or even a real picture, chosen "to match the color of the wallpaper." And from the great art of mural painting, only fancy graffiti remained, which young marginalized people paint on the walls of houses at night. Frescoes in the interior of the living room photo examples:
However, it would be a mistake to write about the fresco only in the context of art history. A trip to the south of Holland, to the small town of Arnhem, will help us fix this mistake. Here we are met by the kind Mr. N and invites us to his cottage, one of the rooms of which is a magnificent example of modern frescoes in the interior.
But first about the house itself. The owner calls it a guest cottage. Inside the cottage there is a spacious hall with a sideboard and a kitchen, a large living room in the attic, a Finnish sauna, turkish sauna and placement in basement floor, which became the purpose of our visit. Frescoes in the interior photo:
We're going down spiral staircase with wide steps and get into the wine storage - a subject of special pride for the owner. The best collection wines are kept here, which he treats to his guests in the next Room. True, he began to pronounce this word with a capital letter quite recently. A year ago it was ordinary basement no windows with a low two-meter ceiling.
And only last summer, with a wave of the magician's hand, it, without changing its physical volume, turned into a terrace open on all sides, around which stretches another world, the one where fantasies are born and dreams die. The wizards were the St. Petersburg artists Igor and Elena Kulik, who dematerialized the walls of this Room using the modern technique of frescoes on the wall in the interior.
Wall painting in the interior
The main leitmotif of their composition, the painters chose the atmosphere of the Mediterranean, the warm colors of which are so lacking in the rainy Dutch Arnhem. This atmosphere corresponds to the main purpose of the Room, in which the owner treats his guests to wine.
By the way, for a wealthy European like the owner of a cottage, wine tasting is always a ritual that requires a special attitude and, of course, a special room. It is never possible to accurately determine the aging period after which a collection wine will reach the peak of its taste.
Therefore, from time to time a true connoisseur and collector tastes wines from different collections and, recognizing, for example, that the "Chateau de Moulin-Neuf" in 1989 reached the zenith of taste sensations, invites guests and opens all the bottles of this vintage. If the wine “didn’t last,” the opened bottle will be drunk at dinner, and the rest will wait for their finest hour in the room, which is decorated with wall frescoes in the interior.
Acrylic paints on decorative plaster
Axonometry, perception, forward and reverse perspective. No, stingy technical description clearly not enough to understand how the artists managed to achieve absolute identification with the texture of the objects of the illusory world they depicted, how they managed to make the walls invisible and raise half the rooms so that under it in all directions a majestic volumetric panorama stretched, living its own, full of secrets and mysteries life. Frescoes in the interior of the living room photo:
The radical visual deformation of space has erased the boundaries between the real and the real world, and the “key” to the riddles of the new dimension was a drawing laid out on the floor of Italian marble - two squares, one of which is inscribed in the other. In a two-dimensional world, this drawing served as a kind of mysterious lever that allowed to "twist" the space, dissolve the walls and create the illusion of a circular open perspective.
Photo wallpaper fresco in the interior - paintings are usually viewed in statics, considering that the temporal dimension is inherent only in films, books and, to a lesser extent, music. In fact, the term "screenwriting" applies to all types of art, and especially to monumental painting.
Frescoes in the interior of the apartment, in the painting of the Room, the artists managed to achieve the scenario of a fascinating adventure novel. The space behind invisible walls is one, it hides common labyrinths, secret paths and encrypted clues for stalkers of this mysterious zone, carelessly violating the immutable laws of perception.
Here you can choose a new route every time. Each time there, behind the painted wall, like behind the fireplace in Pope Carlo's closet, a new path will open into another dimension. Entering that arch over there, go down to the valley, passing by the ancient ruins towards the villa that can be seen in the distance by the sea. Or turn immediately to the left, passing between trees and ruins into the "world of the third wall", where someone is waiting for the unknown.
Between the regular French park and the unexpectedly opening vista overlooking the portal, another dimension of space emerges, leading to triumphal arch in the Renaissance style. But the way there is blocked by stones decorated with maxims about wine - from the antique, quoted by Blok's "rabbit-eyed" revelers, to the lyceum imitation of the Greeks, the pen of the curly-haired descendant of Hannibal. Frescoes in the interior photo:
As a reference point, you can use the conditional horizon line, here and there, appearing as a red thread in the measurements of the walls. But that's bad luck! Upon encountering a sculpture of a lion, this “conventional” line suddenly turns into a “real” red thread with a piece of paper tied at the end, arousing the keen interest of the owner's cat Moti who accidentally got here.
Frescoes on the wall in the interior - in this Through the Looking Glass you can also find its other inhabitants - from rabbits killed by the owner on a hunt to peacocks who wandered here to see if the marble gods of wine and love have such beautiful tails as they have ...
The synthesis of real and picturesque worlds is greatly enhanced by the lighting system of the Room. It includes several custom-made shades and 200 LEDs built into suspended ceiling... The intensity of illumination and the number of active LEDs are selected at the request of the owner, who, depending on his mood, can arrange a bright sunny day or a soft evening twilight in this space.
We do not know whether the murals by Igor and Elena Kulik will be the reason for the return of the fresco to the interior of the apartment. One thing is for sure: this precedent revealed only a part of the tasks that a fresco can undertake when solving a modern interior.
After all, monumental painting is able not only to dematerialize the boundaries of a room, but also to enter into a game with the surrounding landscape of country houses, to argue with a dull courtyard-well that opens from the windows of a city apartment, to blow up geometry from the inside narrow corridor, give intimate ambiguity to the bedroom. Doesn't anyone need this anymore?
After all, if the new last day of Pompeii comes, then we will have nothing to boast of before the descendants who have dug us out. Perhaps with charred wallpaper. Frescoes in the living room interior photo design examples:
