Styling With Urban Culture Wall Art
The Urban Culture collection has elements as bold and striking as a city skyline and as raw and relevant as graffiti street art.
Do you feel the pulse of city streets in your veins? Is the abstract architecture of urban life in your DNA? Bring your passion for city life inside and transform your space with Urban Culture Decor for your home or office walls.
What is Urban Culture Decor
The right piece of art makes a powerful, vital statement. With elements as bold and striking as a city skyline and as raw and relevant as graffiti street art, Urban Culture decor allows you to make your mark on the walls around you.
Street Art for All Styles
Urban Culture home decor has many faces. While it may initially bring to mind exposed brick and pipes and splashy graffiti installations, the urban art movement has evolved over time to include bold, geometric and subtle, monochrome elements, reflecting nuances encountered in city life.
Geometry is all around you in the city – from grid-patterns city streets and subway maps to the sharp angles of high-rises scraping the horizon. Urban decor brings these elements indoors by turning city maps into fine art and featuring strong, graphic abstracts with lines and grids. You can further emphasize this look by adding framed fine art to your collection underline the city’s angular features.
The evolution of urban art includes looking toward the past. Monochrome or vintage-effect photography has grown in popularity, pairing scenes of the past with vignettes modern day city life. Create a striking display by pairing your personal photos with art prints featuring your city’s history for a study in contrasts.
Even the Graffiti art has evolved into (or, more accurately, is finally recognized as) fine art in its own right. It’s the original statement piece – rooted in protest art, made to shake up cultural norms. Modern graffiti work combines abstract work, scenes of city life, and text art into an elevated fine art medium. Incorporate graffiti wall art into your space to highlight your personal statements and create an inviting conversation piece for your guests.
How to Display Street Art
Any space can be transformed with street art to have an urban loft flair. No matter where you’re placing your new art, here are a few universal tips to help your art make a statement.
With neutral walls, try a single large, colorful canvas or framed art as a focal piece to draw the eye. Conversely, on dark or patterned walls stick with minimalist geometric art that features plenty of negative space for the same effect.
If you’re decorating an industrial, exposed brick environment, try canvas prints. The natural organic texture will highlight the art against its busy background. For a sleek, gallery installation look, go for a grid arrangement of similar-sized framed fine art prints.
Instead of the traditional single wall art grouping, try placing coordinating art prints parallel each other on opposing walls to mirror the large-scale symmetry and geometry of urban cityscapes.
Ready to start your own statement collection? Get started with Great Big Canvas's Urban Culture Collection.
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