When it comes to high-tech style, the imagination draws a cold and sterile interior of the office space, or the exclusivity of each item in the apartments of young people and high-tech lovers. There is no place for statuettes, decorative vases and paintings within. The emphasis is placed on simplicity, minimalism and black and white color. And yet, in the interior of this style, devoid of an abundance of decorative elements, there is painting - these are high-tech paintings. However, picking up a picture for the interior of this style is not so simple, but possible. More details about the features of this choice will be written in the article.
Painting in the interior
Whatever approach to the presence of a painting in the interior of a home may exist, it is never acquired to fill the void of the walls. The picture should be in its place, consistent with the style of the interior and be well-lit.
Making out the interior of a dwelling, it is necessary to plan initially the presence in it of one or, as a last resort, two high-tech paintings. If this is not done, the painting, introduced later, can violate the harmony of style, turning it into eclecticism - an artificial combination of styles - or kitsch when you try to combine incompatible ones. High-tech paintings in the photo, for example, those that are placed below in this article, should not be an ornament, as is customary in other styles of home decoration.
The picture should be proportionate to the interior, combined with the shape of the furniture and should not attract too much attention, remaining part of the interior.
Abstract painting
Works of this style usually have two or three colors in tonality. This is either a silhouette, or geometric shapes, or lines. They allow the use of text, as well as a violation of perspective. It is better to order or purchase a picture at the time of planning the interior. This could be a do-it-yourself poster. The frame for the poster or picture in high-tech style should be made of materials that are involved in the design of housing in this style.
Reproductions of paintings of avant-garde art of the 20s of the last century, as well as cubism of Malevich, abstract art of Kandinsky, surrealism of Dali and Picasso perfectly fit into the interior of the apartments. But, no matter how extravagant the reproduction may seem for a given style, it should be combined in style and color with the interior.
A characteristic feature of the style of cubism is its visual rhythm with straight, clear lines and shapes. An abstract hi-tech painting includes a trend such as lettrism. At the heart of the images you can see letters, texts, or images similar to texts. Usually they are made in calligraphic handwriting. Sometimes such paintings combine drawings and texts from the works of famous authors. In the photo below, against the background of the eye are the lines of the work.
Computer graphics
Modern high-tech paintings are performed using computer graphics. Nothing so clearly emphasizes the correspondence of a 3D picture to the hi-tech interior style, muffling its demonstrative “technogenicity”. Such paintings can be printed both on canvas and on vinyl film. A computer editor can make a familiar look emphasized artificial, close to abstract. Fractal computer graphics are an original high-tech pattern.
Painting Criteria
There is an opinion that hi-tech is colorless, that it is transparency and cold steel tones of metal. In an extreme case, white goes as main with the addition of black or metal. Modern designers allow bright accents - blue, purple, red and green. High-tech interior paintings should go in the same range with the color of furniture and walls, that is, you need to pay attention to the color of the picture present in the interior. This should be the final emphasis, expressing the point of view on the world of residents of this room.
You should not saturate the interior of the room with several paintings. It is maximally permissible to have a pair of paintings, but they must be designed in the same style, representing graphic or avant-garde canvases, and be located at a considerable distance from one another. The space around the canvas should be quite large, as it looks in the photo below.
Modern design solutions allow the use of warm colors in the palette, if they do not contradict the general high-tech style and make up the color composition with the interior.
High-tech modular paintings
What are modular paintings? This is a new word in the design of any style of interior decoration. Usually, the hi-tech modules of the picture are in the form of an image divided into several parts. Such work should be combined with what is in the interior. It can be: the color scheme of the room, identity with decorated light sources or geometric shapes of furniture.
The modular picture shown in the photo above will become an original addition to the interior of the living room of this style. In the urbanized direction of design, the artist’s color scheme, including gray, white and beige colors, as well as geometric shapes, looks organically on a modular hi-tech painting.
Whatever version the paintings of this style are made of, they make the space original, dynamic.