5 Wall Art Trends For 2022

As the new year gets nearer, you can consider revamping your house with new wall art. Read our blog for the latest popular wall trends for 2022.

As 2021 inches to a close and the world gets ready to usher in 2022, thoughts of giving your home a slight refresh are certainly abound. But you wouldn’t want to go for costly makeovers, such as changing furniture, repainting walls, or cladding the interior with new tiles. One budget-friendly way to revamp your interior is by installing new wall art.

Aside from its decorative purpose, art has the power to improve your health and wellbeing, inspire conversations, provide a focal point in your home, boost moods, and turn boring spaces into vibrant ones. As you go shopping for one, it’d help if you go with the latest trends. This article highlights five popular wall art trends for 2022 you’d want to consider. (1)

1.Metal Prints

Canvas has been the medium of choice for hundreds of years when it comes to wall art. But of late, art enthusiasts are shifting to metal prints. These are art pieces printed on aluminum to achieve a clean, modern, industrial, and high-definition look.

What’s more, they’re resistant to moisture, scratching, and fading. As such, you can expect them to serve you for several decades and still retain their original quality. Also, the frameless design gives the prints a clean, modern look, which is most probably the desire for your modern home. And the fact that the images are infused into the aluminum sheet rather than printed on top makes them more precise and radiant than other art pieces.

2. Framed canvas prints

Aside from aluminum, the next popular medium for wall prints is the canvas. Here are some of the main advantages of canvas prints:

They don’t show glares and reflections, as is the case with paper prints.
You can have them as large as you want without having to join two or more canvas sheets.
They’re not affected by semi-humid conditions, as experienced in bathrooms.
Canvas creates that pleasing painterly effect.
They’re not as pricey as paintings and sculptures. (2)

For these reasons, make a point of purchasing framed canvas prints from reliable online or local stores that stock a large variety and deliver them promptly.

3.Biophilic art

According to Arizona State University, nature adds great value to life, as it possesses a wild quality that attracts humans. Whenever you’re out there in nature, perhaps hiking, swimming, or sunbathing on the beach, you feel better. However, most modern homes and offices completely shut out nature, and the result is stress on the part of the occupants. (3)

Adding design elements from nature helps mimic the outside environment. The result is a more pleasant and relaxing interior. Thus, you’d want to go for nature wall art—say a large print of green bushes on the banks of a crystal-clear river.

4. Line art

This is an excellent option for minimalist homes. Minimalist artwork is simple, with the fewest possible lines and forms needed to form the image. Additionally, they’re usually devoid of brushstrokes and are primarily monochromatic. That’s in line with the principles of minimalist interior designs, which emphasize that less is more. (4)

So if you are a minimalist, don’t hesitate to hang up line art on your walls. To add charm to it, go for those that require a closer look and scrutiny to discover the subject depicted in print.

5. Statement portraits

In a world where about 24 billion selfies are uploaded to the cloud every year, you’d think that hanging portraits on the wall is outdated. There’s a big difference between images stored on the cloud or other digital devices and those that grace the walls. Seeing portraits on the walls significantly stimulates the brain and positively influences the onlookers, especially if they’re also part of the photos. (5)

To make wall portraits more interesting, you can select those with evidently strong emotions and arrange them intelligently. Also, you can ask an artist to enhance the portraits with a few strategic and intelligent brushstrokes. These will surely bring a warm and calm feeling to your home and help you relax as you stare at them. While family portraits are your first port of call, you can still hang portraits of renowned figures in society.

Takeaway

The five wall art trends for the next year should serve as a guide for your next purchases to hang on your walls. You’d want to go for those that inspire you rather than merely following the crowd. Aside from metal prints, framed canvas prints, art inspired by nature, statement portraits, and line art, you can still explore other options if these don’t resonate with you.

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