Interior wall art is a type of painting whose purpose is to decorate the home. Artists have been working to achieve this goal since the earliest times of human history. Since ancient times, people have decorated their homes with cave paintings, murals, and other types of monumental art such as mosaics, panels, and stained glass. Carpets and tapestries can also be used as wall decor.

A tapestry is a one-sided, lint-free rug designed to decorate a wall. Tapestries can be handmade or machine made and decorated with ornaments or images. Such works of art were first created in ancient Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. In ancient times, tapestries displayed wealth and luxury.

Decorative panels also belong to the wall decor. Various materials such as paint, stone or wood were used to decorate walls, ceilings and doors with various images or sculptural elements. Of course, paintings were also used to decorate the home.

A painting is a work of art in its own right, the subject of which has nothing to do with the decoration of the house.

Nevertheless, some paintings can be a great element of decorating the walls of the living room, for example. The only condition is that they should not be disharmonious with the interior created by the designer.

Paintings have been used as a decorative element since around the 14th century in Europe. They decorated the residences and dwellings of kings and rich people.

Wall art is actually the most popular form of painting that benefits artists. However, it is inferior to paintings intended for exhibitions, galleries and biennales, where they should surprise or even shock sophisticated art connoisseurs.

What is the peculiarity of this genre? Paintings on canvas should be understandable to ordinary people, evoke pleasant associations and not irritate. Sophisticated aesthetes, of course, resent these criteria and reproach masters of mural painting in indulging the unpretentious tastes of the people. However, it is their duty. After all, artists have to eat and that’s why they sell their wall paintings as home decor.

Incidentally, old artists, now recognized and famous, once sold their works for a plate of soup in taverns where their paintings adorned the walls. For example, Niko Pirosmani.

Giuseppe Bonito was an eighteenth-century Italian painter who evolved professionally from Baroque to Rococo style. Early in his career he carried out commissions from religious communities. Later he fulfilled commissions from the royal court in Naples as a portraitist and interior painter. He was also a master of fresco painting. Bonito became the first director of the Neapolitan Academy of Arts and head of the royal tapestry manufactory. All of Naples knew that this master made the best wall paintings for sale.

Since the late nineteenth century, Nico Pirosmani had been painting decorative panels and signs for taverns and stores. The artist often painted on dusty clothes with homemade paints.