Aries Wall Art

Aries Wall Art

Aries Wall Art Start with the horn. The double curl of a ram's horn is a closed spiral, and a closed spiral holds the eye in one place rather than throwing it off the edge of the picture. Hung on a wall that behaves like a full stop. An Aries piece settles the end of a run of shelving, or the dead space beside a door, because it does not send your attention travelling on to whatever comes next. Art for this sign splits into three groups. There are ram portraits, painted or photographed, which read as animal art first and astrology second. There are star charts, where the small crooked line of the constellation sits in a field of dark sky. And there is glyph work, the simple V with the outward curl, treated as typography. The three do very different jobs in a room, so settle which one you want before you start comparing images. Colour is where this sign catches people out. Aries is filed under fire, so much of the art arrives in scarlet and rust. A small red piece is a spark. A large red piece is a heater, and it will push the rest of the room around, particularly anything in pink or terracotta. Against warm white or beige paint, a charcoal or deep navy version of the same subject usually sits more comfortably. These get bought as birthday gifts more often than anything else, which means they land in bedrooms rather than main rooms. Bedrooms are forgiving. You see the piece from the bed, at an angle, in low light, so bold line work survives where fine detail does not, and the glyph versions come into their own. Before you order, cut a sheet of newspaper to the outline you are considering, tape it to the wall, and leave it two days. If you stop noticing it, the scale is right. If it keeps catching your eye as a shape rather than an image, go one step smaller.