American Psycho Wall Art

American Psycho Wall Art

Choosing Psychological Thriller Film Art Settle one thing first: is this going somewhere guests will see it, or somewhere only you will? The answer changes what you should buy. Thriller and neo-noir imagery carries an edge of menace, and a piece that works as a private joke in a home office becomes a conversation you have to keep repeating when it hangs in the living room. Neither placement is wrong. Choosing without deciding is. The genre covers late twentieth century thrillers and their modern descendants: cold interiors, corporate greys, red used sparingly and deliberately, poster typography borrowed from the period. Much of it is graphic rather than photographic, built from a limited palette and a lot of empty space, which is why it survives at smaller sizes than most film art does. Those greys are the technical catch. A piece that is nine parts grey and one part red depends entirely on the grey staying neutral. On a warm-painted wall under warm bulbs, neutral grey shifts towards beige and the whole image looks dirty rather than clinical. Cool white walls and a cooler bulb keep it where it belongs. It hangs well in a media room, a study, a stairwell, or a hallway running a series of related pieces. It fights a room full of soft furnishings and warm wood, which is exactly the room most people default to hanging things in. If you are building a run of film pieces along a wall, fix the vertical centre line first and keep every piece on it regardless of the height differences between them. Aligning the tops instead is the usual instinct, and it makes a corridor look like a noticeboard.