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508 Blue striped grunts school
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 71 x 107 x 2 cm Print - 28 x 42.1 x 0.8 inch
$739
Entresijos / Ins and Outs
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Entresijos / Ins and Outs
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Conceptos japoneses II / Japanese concepts II
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
Conceptos japoneses I / Japanese concepts I
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
Printemps bouquet, merci la vie
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$762
Sculptures en montagne, poème dans l'espace au pays du Mont-Blanc
Joan Miró
Print - 76 x 54.5 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.5 inch
$7,957
Panels orange neon vintage
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,136
Holding It Togetherness
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,871
The little girl and the horse
Joanna Raad
Painting - 20 x 29 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
$837
Impression Chebanieh
Joanna Raad
Painting - 58 x 68 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.8 x 26.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,800
Lost in the Luna park
Joanna Raad
Painting - 38 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,080
BONHEUR SOUS LES MIMOSAS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Tree of Life
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 140 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,080
Traffic Full Color Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,410
Flor Fractal / Fractal Flower
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Apparentia No. 8, Series I
Mario Henrique
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,433
Summertime at Cawthorne Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,805
Ouverture de la Fundacio Joan Miro Barcelone
Joan Miró
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$5,911
Turquoise Vertical Panels
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,136
Untitled in Purple & Yellow
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,136
Untitled in Blue & Grey
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,136
Untitled in Yellow
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,136
Ninfe Riflesse
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 125 x 180 x 1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,979
El corazón también se deshoja / The Heart Also Defoliates
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
La emoción de la duda / The Thrill of Doubt
Luis Prada
Painting - 50 x 60 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
Ecos de campanas / Echoes of Bells
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 50 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,819
Seguiré tu huella / I will follow your footsteps
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 60 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
NOIRMOUTIERS, MON ETE PLAGE DES DAMES
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$904
Curva 18/28
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 108 x 108 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.5 x 42.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,274
Mantra (Implosion)
Yunior Marino
Painting - 167.6 x 190.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66 x 75 x 0.1 inch
$4,800
El disidente orgulloso (The proud dissident)
Luis Prada
Painting - 50 x 60 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$1,819
Coincidencias II (Coincidences II)
Luis Prada
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,819
Coincidencias I (Coincidences I)
Luis Prada
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,819
Perpetual Motion
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 62 x 84 x 0.2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,705
Rainbows and Halo's
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,805
Un peu plus haut sur la falaise
Severine Dietrich
Painting - 97 x 137 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 53.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,046
#11 from Witness of 2020 Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
#8 from Witness of 2020 Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
La tristesse d'une française
Zafi
Fine Art Drawings - 76.5 x 57 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.1 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,046
Visage d'animal
Zafi
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 51 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,819
Du bonheur dans l'air
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$625
LES PETITES CHOSES DE LA VIE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$790
Colored artworks
The work of color is central in any artistic work. It is even one of the first tools of the artist. It is difficult to imagine a work that would exist without the working of color - even if it is the absence of color that the artist chooses to present.
Through the ages and artistic movements, the use and meaning attributed to color evolves, but the essence of color remains the same. Every artist must master the properties of color in order to control his composition. In the restoration of paintings, color even becomes a science, because it is necessary to know the different molecules to find the colors and mixtures originally used by the artist.
In the history of art, the importance of color fluctuates according to periods and geographical areas. During the Italian Renaissance, for example, there was a debate (called Paragone) between the authority of color versus drawing: according to the schools, it is the color, and not the line, that creates the emotion and visual power of a work of art. The colors thus take on an immense importance, and assume certain meanings: white symbolizes purity for example, and blue (systematically used to clothe the Virgin Mary) is associated with divinity. These symbols are not thought of randomly: the purple for example, is used since the Byzantine era to signify the highest rank of royalty. Unlike ochre, the purple pigment came from a specific shell, and was extremely difficult - and therefore rare, and expensive - to obtain.
More generally, colors can be divided into three categories: warm, cool, and neutral. As their name implies, these classes of colors give off an atmosphere that the painter can use to influence the emotion of his work. Baroque art, for example, manipulates the contrasts between warm and cold colors to capture the power of bodies. The play of light is exalted by the effects of color. For a long time, the traditional Western school of painting required painters to reproduce the colors of the environment around them. It was the Impressionists, in the 19th century, who explored other ways of seeing - and therefore of transcribing on canvas - their chromatic environment. By avoiding complex mixtures and painting spontaneously, in the open air, the Impressionists reinvented the use of color to reproduce reality.
It was not until abstract and subjective painting that art devoted itself to color as a subject. Mark Rothko, precursor of the Colorfield Painting movement and of abstract expressionism, sees in his paintings a living organism whose color is human and whose format is transcendent. Piet Mondrian, on the other hand, sought in his paintings to approach the very essence of nature through the purity of primary colors, to achieve abstraction. The founder of the Russian avant-garde movement of Suprematism, Kasimir Malevich, will disturb the senses of everyone with his work "White square on white background", in which the color is painted only for itself. Contemporary art, photography, collage, or pop art also use in their respective ways the resources of color, exploring indefinitely all its pluralities. As Picasso said, "When I have no blue, I use red."
Artsper writes art in color: discover below a great selection of works that honor color and its properties. What better way to brighten up an interior?