Art for the Floor
Art for the floor? But of course! There are so many
inspirational ideas to draw from especially if you are having a custom rug made. A custom rug is a one of a kind area rug, and can be Art that you walk on. At Rug Rats we have been inspired over the years to draw from many artists and the pool of ideas is endless. Our favorite is Henri Matisse. You can see his influence everywhere, especially in furniture and fabrics. In Matisse's later years he gave up painting to create art by paper cut-outs which he would pin to a blank wall and create plates of work. (See below)
  
The Vegetables Beasts of the Sea The Wine Press
Matisse allowed color to dominate his pictorial art. He saw it as a decorative art. Each shape, block of color
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This book is the single best work to have appeared on Matisse's great cut-outs. The section of color plates are superbly designed and arranged. Matisse's delicious eye-candy is allowed to speak for itself. The book is recommended for its excellent design and writing. It is a marvelous introduction to Matisse and
his work. This book leads the imagination to great rug design!
The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse
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Hall runners designed by Rug Rats based on Matisse
shapes and colors
 
This rug based on Matisse's This rug was made from the
Oceania. We used shaped scrapes and shapes that
leopard carpet as the came from making the
couch pillows had this rug to the right, using same
animal print in them leopard carpet |
The decor in this room lent itself to using
Matisee shapes and colors.
Dining Room room rug
based on a Matisse
border. This border
frames the dining
room table. |
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Furniture for this room was purchased
from the colors in the rug. the
Rug was designed as the focal point.
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One of our more interesting rugs.
We named this the "Whale Tail"
This rug twisted and turned around
the foyer, hall, to the opening
of the living room ending in the "Whale Tail"
For more pictures of this rug visit
our Contemporary Rug page
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There are several other artists that have inspired custom
rugs we have made. The most noteworthy is Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian/French Expressionist Painter. He had exhilarating quest for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of geometric abstraction. Kandinsky has provided us with an unparalleled collection of abstract art.
(See below)
  
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This book, accompanies the first full-scale exhibition of Kandinsky's work in London at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces his development from an unremarkable painter of Russian folk scenes to the geometrically precise and clinical draftsman of the later abstract creations. His image-making culminated during his final years with paintings of strangely micro-organic-looking works, as you see here.
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Kandinsky inspired round rug
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There is a lot of information and research that can be
found on the internet. AllPosters.com has many posters and prints to look through. Other interesting areas are:
The-Artists.org and ARTCYCLOPEDIA.com
See the 2006 Carpet Design Awards presented by Domotex, Hali, and Modern Carpets and Textiles.
Winner Best Design
Afrika by Rudolf F. Petersen
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Squares and stripes are in style. Below is composition
No 2 by Piet Mondrian
 
Rugs above we designed based on squares and shapes
found in contemporary art, fabrics and design.
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We can design a rug based on fabric, art style, your art, or any type design that might interest you. Look around
your environment and see what types of styles and colors that please you. It might be a scarf, china design, dress fabric, furniture style or art. We can build and send a computer rendering, but we have found that our best designed rugs are drawn on paper, by hand, just as an artist would do. Sometimes these designs are rough, but the idea and concept will come through. All the rugs that Rug Rats created in this newsletter were drawn by hand and colors were picked to place in each shape. Click on the "Kandinsky-Matisse inspired rug above to see a hand drawn sketch of this rug before it was made. Contact us if you are interested in a, "Art-Inspired" Rug. |
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We can coordinate area rugs to match your fabric, wallpaper, paint, art,etc! Just send us a swatch and we'll send you 3 coordinating samples to choose from absolutely FREE!
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