Discover Our 10 Most Popular Wall Art Styles

Are you looking for wall art but don’t know where to begin? Get inspired with our most popular wall art styles and discover how you could decorate your home this spring!

These wall art styles caught the eye of most of our Canvas Factory fans in 2022, so we’re sure you’ll love them too. But wall art is nothing if not personal. Start browsing, get inspired and find popular wall art styles that speak to you.

Ready? Without further ado, here are our most popular wall art categories.

The Most Popular Wall Art

10. Modern Canvas Art

Coming in at number ten is modern art. This popular wall art style is made up of a blend of different styles. Modern art usually experiments with a variety of artistic perspectives, warping them to create something new. It blends colour and strong, geometric lines to create futuristic-style art and subverts the viewer’s expectations.

Modern art is the perfect accompaniment to a modern-style room. Sometimes modern wall art can still suit a more classic-style space if it has a more abstract, timeless look.

For instance, if you browse our modern art using the colour filter at the top right-hand side of the search bar, you can find art designs in subdued tones that are perfect for a more classic, earthy interiors look.

9. Wall Art of Plants and Flowers

Coming in at number nine, our customers loved natural wall art featuring plants and flowers. Not only does this popular wall art provide a gateway into the natural world, but it is also highly versatile. Plants and flowers can suit any space, from the living room to the bedroom, or even the bathroom.

Whether you’re creating a colourful wall art print featuring your favourite colourful flowers or hanging a boldly illustrated tropical print, you can’t go wrong with this popular wall art type.

8. Retro Art

At number eight in our most popular wall art types, we have retro art. Retro wall art is characterised by an explosion of colour and striking graphical elements. If you want to make a statement, retro art is the way to go.

The best retro wall art ideas are big and bold. Think bright retro movie posters, old advertisements or signs, colourfully illustrated designs or colourful psychedelic designs. Retro wall art brings colour and life to your living room, entertaining areas and entranceways.

7. Contemporary Art

What better way to decorate your home than contemporary art? It’s not hard to see why contemporary wall art comes in at number seven as one of our most popular wall art types. Contemporary artworks are bold and experimental, mixing different art genres while adding a unique modern spin. This popular wall art type is not for the faint-hearted!

When choosing contemporary art for your home, you want art that is timeless, transcending traditional notions of style. Our favourite contemporary art ideas are vivid and bold, featuring neon pops of colour and expressive illustrations.

6. Urban Art

Coming in number six is urban art. Urban art is a general term referring to all contemporary art designs. It can include street art and graffiti, as well as street photography and cityscapes.

In recent times, however, urban art has made its way firmly into popular culture, solidifying itself as one of the most popular art forms out there. Not to mention it can look fantastic in your living spaces!

When selecting your urban art, select colours and themes that speak directly to you. As with any art form, you should aim to select colours that suit your existing home décor scheme or choose pieces that juxtapose it. For instance, you may want to juxtapose a modern monochromatic colour scheme with a bright red graffiti art piece.

5. Beach Canvas Prints

Next up we have beach canvas prints, and it’s easy to see why this is such a popular theme. Beach prints come in all shapes and sizes, from dark blue seascapes to seagrass in sepia tones, or even a drone shot of beachgoers basking in crystal clear waters.

Beach canvas prints look beautiful in all kinds of homes. You don’t need to live by the sea to enjoy them! These prints look great in a modern home, a Hamptons-style home or even a more classic space.

To get the look, simply select your favourite beach canvas print and create a print. Our white floating frame prints can also frame a beach print nicely. Or, if you’d like to make a bigger impact, our split canvas prints are the perfect option for you and look fabulous in living spaces.

4. Nature and Wilderness Art

Looking for a taste of the wild? You’re clearly not alone! Our nature and wilderness prints came in at number four in our most popular wall art types. Nature and wilderness prints provide us with a taste of the natural world, acting as a portal to a new and beautiful location.

To get the look, think about the landscapes that you enjoy the most, whether that’s a tranquil rainforest, rolling hills beneath a mountain or a peaceful lake. Or perhaps you dream of one day seeing wild African animals, or swimming with sharks. In that case, a wall art piece with a wildlife scene could act as your travel inspo.

Nature and wildlife wall art looks stunning on canvas or metal prints, and look great hung in any room in your house, even in the bathroom.

3. Abstract Art

Abstract art is ideal in that it is much more versatile than other wall art. It can be suitable for young and old and those with all different tastes. Abstract artworks can come in a variety of forms; it can be dramatic and high-impact, or soft and subtle.

This art is fantastic in that it challenges us to form our own interpretation of what an art piece means. This wall art type is popular in modern interior design. Ideally, some of the colours in your artwork should match elements in your rooms for it to look like it fits in. The great thing about abstract art is that it can suit almost any room.

2. Aboriginal Art

Coming in in the top two of our most popular wall art is Aboriginal art. Aboriginal designs play a very important role in the culture of the Aborigines. Their art is a form of storytelling, of keeping their history and preserving Aboriginal culture.

Today, Aboriginal wall art can make a fantastic addition to your home. Aboriginal art designs usually make use of rich, earthy colours and vivid patterns and designs that have a deep significance.

Aboriginal art can suit almost any room in the house but looks great in a place where you can appreciate its detail. It’s usually made up of a series of small dots so is best where it can be examined closely and look good at a distance. Hang it in the living room, in a bedroom or an entranceway.

1. Landscapes

Finally, we’re at number one! Our most popular wall art type is landscape wall art. This is unsurprising, as there are so many stunning scenes in the natural world that look impressive as wall art. Like nature and wildlife art, landscapes act as a window to the outside world, transporting you to lands far and wide.

Decorate your home with scenes of lush rainforests, stark deserts and cascading waterfalls. You really can’t go wrong with landscapes; they look fantastic as large-scale wall art hanging in the living room, bedroom, bathroom or really any room in the home.

There’s nothing that brings a landscape wall art piece to life more than an acrylic print or a metal wall art print; it brings out the colours in the artwork brilliantly, giving a sleek shine to waterfalls, rainforests or the salt spray shining on the ocean.

To discover our popular wall art, simply start browsing our canvas art and search for the wall art that you love the most. Or, type in a search term that you’re curious about. At Canvas Factory we have, quite literally, millions of designs to choose from, so your only problem will be narrowing down your favourite designs!