Geometric Abstract Paintings
Featured artwork, #1180 Nocturne
Towering into the office spaces of prestigious lawyers, is the omnipresent abstract painting. They can be quite imposing. But why? Here is how you can recreate the intimidating law firm office for your set using our collection of large abstract paintings.
The reason abstract art illicit such an air of intimidation is that it requires viewers to look at art in a new way. Our eyes and mind have evolved to construct the world in terms of realism. Abstract art eludes obvious truth, daring us to solve the narrative of the painting.
Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Eric R. Kandel, speaks to this challenging evolution in modern art. In his latest book, “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science,” Kandel shows how modern artists distilled their subjective experience into expressions of colour, light and form. The artists turn truths, stories or feelings into something obscured. This reductionism of complex concepts into smaller, more compact components asks the viewer to ‘see in a new way’, confronting the history of human visual perception.
Law Firms are a perfect fit for abstract artwork, as the paintings contain hidden knowledge, a buried story and the obscured motivations of the artist.
Summarizing the point in the words of famous Abstract Expressionist, Mark Rothko, his abstracts depict “unknown adventures in an unknown space.”
High-End Sculpture
Artwork Featured, #4120 He She Ascent
The architecture of today’s progressive law firms embrace transparency to reinforce the firm’s culture and organizational structure. Using windows, glass-fronted offices and conference rooms builds a world without walls for hanging artwork. Our suggestion for Set Dec teams, is to consider using sculpture in these areas. Free standing sculptural artworks define the elements of culture and personality for these progressive office spaces.
Striking Black and White Photography
Artwork featured, #3053 Face Palm
Contrary to the use of sculpture, there are office spaces that are truly private, enabling work without distraction. These areas can be personalized through the medium of tasteful black and white photography.
Black and white photography borrows an air of class and sophistication from its history. The original silver gelatin prints of vintage darkrooms harken to the renowned photographers of Ansel Adams and Paul Caponigro. Consider in your decoration, that while black and white photography is steeped in meticulous mechanical ministrations, the artwork can be equally wild and unrestrictive.
Allusions to the Bull Market
A prosperous and successful law firm will exude a confidence and economic growth familiar to the investors as the “bull market.” This is a condition of a financial market in which prices are rising or are expected to increase. The term “bull market” is reserved for extended periods of rising prices, in a persistent upward line.
The result is often boldness, confidence, financial success. Broadcasting the strength of the bull and its metaphorical ties to the economic market can also portray your character as determined, in an obstinate and unyielding way.