Vincent van Gogh Oil Paintings Recommended for Your Living Room

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We can come to wonder how to dress the big piece of wall behind the sofa in the living room and displaying a painting in a big format is a great solution. You will need to ensure that it is hung at the correct height and at eye level. Several options come to us depending on our environment and how we can thus bring harmony to a whole level. You may want to introduce a soothing or energetic atmosphere to your living room, and we will detail some possibilities for you. Vincent Van Gogh, as one of the greatest painters of all time, offers a great range of varieties in terms of colors so that you can find the best fit between this selection:

1. The Cafe Terrace on the Place de Forum, Arles, At Night

Along with the idea of bringing the outside inside, you can give your living room a touch of South France terrace. The vivid colors will light up the place, and the night sky will keep it smooth. As Van Gogh would say about this work of art: "Here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colors itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot."

2. Irises

This painting will bring a natural yet dynamic touch to your living room. Van Gogh created a balanced background for his first "Irises'' painting, dividing the background into brown, purple, and green/yellow sections that impose order while underscoring the energy and motion of the purple blossoms and green leaves. If you have an accent wall with earthy tones in your living room, a reproduction in a big format of the Irises is our recommendation.

3. The Starry Night

Witness every day the view from Van Gogh’s bedroom by choosing a reproduction of this painting. It is extremely versatile and depicts a stylized moon surrounded by a blue sky. Van Gogh used the rare pigment Indian yellow together with zinc yellow to depict the moon and stars.

4. Branches with Almond Blossom

Including the delicacy of this pale blue and white, the painting is ideal when you want to add serenity to your environment. It would be a perfect addition to a room where blue is dominant to add to this tone.

5. Starry Night over the Rhone

This is another instance of a painting at night that greatly intrigued Van Gogh. The glimmering blue will allow you to pair this painting with a great range of colors while providing your living room with a deep horizon. It can provide you with a very airy vibe. This is truly an ideal reproduction as a must-have in a big format due to the figurative yet stylized details.

6. Still Life with Irises

This painting, bright as the sun, will be perfect to match with dark furniture. It would be perfect above a dark gray sofa for example. We are here in front of a renewed liveliness and intensity of color, and you can make this painting the masterpiece of your room when not having gone too much into strong colors and contrasts for the other elements.

7. Self Portrait

You can go iconic with this painting and create a gallery by adding some portraits of the family members around it. To achieve the best result, you would ideally create an asymmetrical arrangement in which you can choose non-matching frames. You can hang the painting on the side of the arrangement or in the middle if you have more than 5 to hang around it. This painting is perfect to pair with earthy, beige tones. It could be as well put alongside the Irises painting.

8. Noon, Rest from Work

This painting and its warm colors will bring harmony to a room already containing warm tones, such as the currently popular mustard yellow. It will be enhanced and complement wooden and wicker furniture. We recommend it against white walls, but nothing prevents you from having an accent wall that would enhance its beautiful tones.