The new year bursts jubilantly onto the scene with Pantone’s Viva Magenta, the color authority’s official shade for 2023. It’s warm and vibrant but deeply grounded. The balance of heat from the red tones and stability from the earth tones in the shade makes it a versatile and cheerful choice for your wall art and home décor.

Like a fine cabernet, Viva Magenta is a warm, deep red with stabilizing notes to finish off its vivid bouquet. This shade is far more livable (and wearable) than a pure primary red. While electrifying and exciting, few settings truly accommodate a shocking fuchsia or straight red shade. Viva Magenta, however, is suitable at home in so many settings, from modern to baroque.

This week, we’ll explore all the ways we love incorporating Viva Magenta decor and art prints into our decor.

Make Magenta Homey With Neutrals

This autumnal shade pairs well with neutrals as well as jewel tones. Using magenta in this way creates a royal but relaxed vibe. Visualize the vivid horizon of Purple Sky or the retro charm of North Carolina against a cool, champagne-colored wall in your dining area or study. When used in a taupe, gray, or white settings, the pomegranate shade seems especially juicy because it has no chromatic competition.

The splash of vibrant color in Floral Doodles Prayerful Canvas feels uplifting and optimistic, making this piece of art ideal for a bedroom or meditation space.

Bare, blonde wood floors, paver tiles, and low-key furnishings allow this lush shade to take center stage or place magenta at the heart of a more opulent setting. Classic Persian rugs, fine leathers, and velvet drapes or upholstery in deep emerald green, sapphire blue, or violet harmonize with magenta for a Renaissance-rich harmony. If you’re testing the look, just try a few throw pillows in jewel-tone brocade on your beige or bone-colored couch. This regal shade is complementary to over-the-top gilt and gold flourishes, such as picture frames and mirrors.

Take Magenta On The Spice Route

This vivid shade suggests the aromatic and palate-pleasing wares in Mexico, Morocco, and India, where finely milled spices abound for every market-day morning. Just as seeds, cloves, and chilies give heat and flavor to a thousand cuisines, the spicy energy of magenta is a delicious accompaniment to your personal collections. Used this way, magenta proves that less is definitely not more!

Saddle Pink Purple on Green is a jaunty touch for a kitchen, especially when you’re cooking up something picante! Purple Teal Tribal Maze suggests the carvings and glyphs of ancient temples, while Devi Lakshmi Diwali Rangoli captures the joy of a days-long religious celebration. The folklore motif of these pieces is a décor approach that truly takes on a life of its own as you work with it! This treatment is a robust alternative to minimalism. It encourages you to dig out your cherished souvenirs and display them with love, turning every surface into an altar.

If you want to start small, try the fabulous Virgo Canvas, suggestive of mola, the fantastic textile art of the Kuna people of Panama, in a hallway or powder room. In a small space, try vivid, hot wall paint on one wall—cantaloupe, sunshine yellow, or lime green—to add even more drama to the artwork.

Make Magenta Magic With Abstract Art

A modern, casual environment truly brings out the fun of this bright hue. We love playing up the red-pink side of magenta in an office or studio to invite creative ideas and collaboration. Using a bold color like magenta allows you to freestyle, especially when you choose light-hearted artwork like DJON-123, a smashing Valentine to love, sweet love! The scribbled graffiti heart seems ready to pulse right out of its magenta canvas in a dance of pure joy.

Cat people and Louis Wain fans will feel the love when adding Longhaired Purple Tabby Cat just about anywhere cats rule. The gradient background, melting from magenta to acidic tangerine, gives the painting a sense of rising dramatic tension. The stately portrait at the center of the canvas is as beguiling as Bastet, the feline-favoring Egyptian goddess of the home, fertility, childbirth, and women’s mysteries. This longhaired tabby is depicted with all-seeing eyes and flame-like fur tipped in an array of violet tones that seem to signal mystical journeys.

If cats make your eyes water, give your décor a tubular twist. Scribbles Purple by Cartissi is a jubilant contemporary abstract composition with grape and berry-soda fizz tones. This freehand canvas is dynamic in an office setting and fun-loving anywhere in your home.

Magenta Meeting In The Ladies Room

As colors go, the magenta range may be considered a bit of a diva. The primal power of red in fusion with intense blue refuses to be ignored, making this shade the perfect pair to black-and-white and Art Deco color schemes. This approach lends itself to anything theatrical and glamorous.

A black background makes Bloom Widely a sophisticated choice with its flurry of full-petaled poppies and anemones. Try it in a powder room or beside your vanity in the bedroom, and pair it with the elegant orchids and peonies Perfume Bottle Bouquets XIX. Together, they’re so much fun when placed on a wall with several mirrors of different shapes and sizes!

Celebrating the majesty of womanhood, the impressionistic watercolor In the Moment contrasts the delicate halo of a woman’s coiffure with her shoulder-baring mantle of magenta feathers. Ooh-la-la! Another girly and glitzy take is Red Lipsticks, a fabulously feminine image wherein vivid lipsticks hover around a perfect kiss like hummingbirds sipping nectar from a dewy blossom.

Any way you choose to explore it, magenta is a life affirmation, a spirits-lifting jolt of optimism and gorgeousness. And we can’t imagine a better way to start the new year than bringing the warmth and goodwill of magenta into your space with fine art canvas!