Interior paintings/drawings typically exclude or de-emphasize the presence of people or pets in order to focus on the architecture, furniture, and objects found within a room or series of rooms.

Artists might choose to paint/draw an interior because they find the space beautiful, imposing, sacred, haunting, mysterious, ridiculous, or appalling. Or, an artist might choose this genre as a vehicle for aesthetic expression, emphasizing abstract shapes, mark making, distortions, palette exploration, etc.

Featured: Bedroom in Arles by Vincent Van Gogh.