Living with Art

Bring art into everyday life. Read about prints, cushions, portraits and personal objects, with notes on choosing, displaying and caring for the pieces you keep.

Four figures of different ages drink together at a small table outdoors.

Canvas wall art: 12 oil paintings made for canvas prints

Van Gogh’s Drinkers, Gauguin’s Tahiti, Renoir’s fruit and a Sargent cathedral: twelve oil paintings whose brushwork looks its best printed on canvas.

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A lady in blue and a knight in armour stand in a château room lit by a tall arched window.

Terracotta wall art: 12 paintings in clay and rust

Böcklin’s forge, Courbet’s portraits, Ford Madox Brown’s Lear and a prairie on fire: twelve paintings in clay, rust and burnt orange.

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A beautifully dressed woman stands beside a trellis of morning glories.

Gallery wall ideas: 3 ready-made walls from 12 masterworks

A Japanese print wall, a wall of beloved dogs and cats, and a William Blake wall: three gallery walls built from twelve real masterworks that belong together.

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A woman in a wine red silk bodice and pearls turns to meet our gaze.

Burgundy wall art: 12 paintings in wine and oxblood

Velázquez’s little prince, Landseer’s spaniels, Böcklin at dusk and a Dutch table laid with wine: twelve paintings in wine, oxblood and claret.

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A girl reads at a pale green table beside a pot of bright red flowers.

Art for a quiet room: 12 paintings for reading nooks and calm corners

Readers by Larsson and Utamaro, Corot’s woman in meditation, Shitao’s misty mountains and Millet’s shepherdess: twelve pictures that slow the room down.

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Crescents and a circle of colour float on a flat vermilion ground.

Red wall art: 12 paintings with crimson at their heart

Hilma af Klint’s vermilion swans, Yoshitoshi’s rooftop duel, a Medici princess and a Christmas parlour: twelve paintings where red is the star.

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A chair, a wooden horse on wheels and a doll in a small pram sit in a lamplit corner.

Nursery art: 12 gentle vintage pictures for a child’s room

Larsson’s toys, Renoir’s child in white, Hokusai’s lost kite and Blake’s dancing fairies: twelve gentle classic pictures of childhood for a nursery or child’s room.

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A courtly procession winds through a landscape between bands of golden cloud.

Gold wall art: 12 paintings that shine

Gold leaf screens from Japan, Mughal manuscripts, Blake’s Last Supper and Moreau’s Venice: twelve paintings that glow with gold and golden light.

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A boy reads a large book in a high backed chair at a red desk in a bright room.

Home office wall art: 12 paintings for focus

Wright of Derby’s alchemist, Dürer’s scholars, Larsson’s children at their desks and Hilma af Klint’s key: twelve pictures of people thinking, reading and making, for the room where you work.

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