Before discovering how to decorate in a modern style with a puzzle , it is useful to know that the best thing to do is to lighten the painting and hang it without the frame , but directly flush on the wall.
Alternatively, you can add small wall lights or metal and aluminum brackets, but the focus is on removing them, minimizing the aesthetic impact and creating an overall effect of lightness and cleanliness.
The modern style is a very popular trend in recent seasons, and is based on the combination of contemporary solutions and cool colors, in keeping with the motto “less is more” of Minimalism.
Here we will give you advice on some puzzle paintings to hang , including reproductions of Chagall and Kandinsky , plus a tribute to the mural art of Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo’s historic partner.
These are artistic puzzles that you can relax and concentrate on while you make them, and then hang them up once you’re finished.
Nowadays, putting together a puzzle is not just a way to share time with family, but a powerful coping strategy against anxiety and worry: through calm and patience, individuals regain contact with reality and become reconciled with themselves and their surroundings.
If you then add the decorative component, you optimize time and resources, obtaining a truly useful object, a ready-made that fulfills many roles, effective and multitasking.
The Russian-born French painter is the emblem of the most symbolic and spiritual art, with his suspended characters floating in the painting.
From a purely formal point of view, the effect is one of extreme lightness: the hanging subject, emblem and trademark of Marc Chagall ‘s style, swims in space without support, just as the painting does not need a frame to exist.
The 1000-piece puzzle version pays homage to the painting Vue de Paris , a Parisian panorama with the Eiffel Tower visible in the distance. The painting is rendered in warm shades of blue and turquoise, with a few splashes of red that lend dynamism and a relentless rhythm.
Marc Chagall’s spirituality is similar to that of Pablo Picasso in his more nostalgic and melancholic so-called blue period: turquoise, indigo, cornflower blue, lilac, and gray are all cool shades that blend beautifully with a modern, contemporary-style setting.
In contemporary art, when we talk about abstraction we mean an artistic movement in which form is abstracted , taken out of reality and interpreted according to the artist’s imagination.
Contrary to what one might believe, there is no confusion or disorder in an abstract painting, but all the forms and the subject exist according to a precise order and a harmonious rigor.
The lack of a figurative point of reference creates a disconnect between meaning and signifier, but also a fun, original play of shapes , colors, and connections between concept and representation.
If we no longer recognize natural figures, then we can allow ourselves full freedom in our expressive means, interpreting reality as we please.
These are the experiments and contaminations of abstract artists such as Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian and the most famous Wassily Kandinsky , with his paintings rich in colour and stylised figures.
On our site you can find many art puzzles inspired by Kandinsky’s works, including the famous “Compositions” and the equally famous color studies, perfect for decorating your kitchen, living room, or bedroom in a modern style .
Indeed, his paintings reveal imaginative and stylized figures, chromatic fields and phytomorphic cells that can be juxtaposed like musical notes on a pentagram, so light in the air.
The beauty of Kandinsky’s hanging puzzle paintings lies precisely in the extreme creativity that springs from the abstract figures: there seems to be no logical thread, instead everything is constructed according to a motif, or rather, a tune that strongly recalls the melody of a classical composition.
In practice, this compositional order translates into pure decoration for the home and for the walls , in a touch of futuristic spirit, even though the abstract artists worked about a century ago.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, let’s take a leap forward with Mexican muralism , which has almost prehistoric roots and is based on the material force of color and the emergency and urgency of communication.
We offer you the reproduction of a work from the Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera , an extremely provocative political fresco for the historical period.
From the workers’ hunger march to the class struggle, the artist examines and investigates a different way of communicating and understanding painting, with a socially denounced value.
As for the formal interpretation of the puzzle picture , it is a super effective strategy for furnishing a modern style , through themes inherent to industrialism, the machine, speed and, consequently, war.
Unlike the works of Chagall and Kandinsky discussed above, the figures here are perfectly recognizable, but they too are stylized into new forms: they function as large monolithic blocks, with man seemingly embedded in the material, trapped in the very machine he operates. This concept harks back to the exploitation of the worker in those heated and violent years, when man sought to free himself from the machine and the oppressive masses. Day after day, in an alienating loop.
There could not be a more suitable puzzle painting for a theme linked to the modern and Modernism.
A modern and contemporary home today is typically equipped with home automation devices such as voice commands linked to the smartphone, technological appliances that connect and synchronize stoves, heating, hot water and so on.
In an era where we are all connected and disconnected, near and far, the important thing is not to lose our imagination and creativity , but also that healthy desire to play with friends or with our children.
An artistic painting is the perfect gift idea to surprise someone we love, especially thoughtful people who enjoy challenging themselves with their patience.
That’s right, because the act of fitting one piece after another means seeing a design emerge before your eyes, a therapeutic artistic creation: once the puzzle is finished you definitely feel better!
Puzzle Arte’s hanging puzzle paintings look great on the walls of a modern living room, perhaps covering the entire wall and without a frame, or even without the nail base, resting directly on the floor as is popular with the most cutting-edge trends.
They look great in the kitchen near the steel hood, or next to the wall unit, but you could also display them in the bathroom for a truly urban style.
