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The Intuitive Joy II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 95 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,584 $1,426
Happiness # - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$917
1966 Paris blanc L'artiste peintre inspiré White Paris The Inspired painter
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,641
Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$9,053
Abstract n°387
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,432
Abstract n°386
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,432
Abstract n°150
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,432
Abstract n°34
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,621
Abstract n°33
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,621
Abstract Red Black 2
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,413
Abstract n°451
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,621
Abstract n°449
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,621
Abstract n°279
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,432
Abstract n°275
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,432
The woman who rode horses goes to the beach
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,432
Rising life IV
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 72 x 75 x 2.6 cm Painting - 28.3 x 29.5 x 1 inch
$3,734 $3,361
Collection papillons N°1219
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Small gypsy girl in Amsterdam 6
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$985
Silver abstract
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$8,629
Bien accompagné
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,282
Collection papillons N°1226
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,924
Fraîches comme le printemps
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 122 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,750
Untitled SE Wild Style Raw large jaune
Seen
Painting - 51 x 140.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 55.3 inch
$2,829
Fleurs Bohémiennes
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,358
My Kid Just Ruined My Haring III (Jackson Pollock version)
Ziegler T
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$339
Stereotypes. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 48.3 x 36.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19 x 14.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Untitled n°602 Abstract October 19 with Black
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$5,319
Champagne à gogo
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,300
Wanna have some fun?
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
Gypsy Skirt Rounded in Amsterdam 2
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,132
Charme au féminin
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,300
Cry for the sun over the world
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,184
Champagne pour Madame
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,282
Does My Happiness Upset you ?!
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,829
Marine abstraite 04-2022-01
Fred Boutet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$453
Ascoltando Il Sole II / Listening to the sun II
Mattia Novello
Painting - 228.6 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 90 x 45 x 2 inch
$15,000
Io di notte io di giorno
Mattia Novello
Painting - 279.4 x 416.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 110 x 164 x 2 inch
$17,000
Red Candle In The Dark
Roanne .
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,822
Dysfunctional Yet Romantic
Roanne .
Painting - 51.8 x 51.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20.4 x 20.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,822
Arlequin et ses convives
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,961
Drink up some Hard Cocktails
Roanne .
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$2,003
Children's afternoon
Perrine Anna Chantal
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$935
Io su poltrona pensando al lui / Me on an armchair thinking about him
Mattia Novello
Painting - 160 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 45 x 1 inch
$8,500
Séduction 1
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,942
Universe of colors
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,167
Arlequine - Arlequins
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,157
Que du bonheur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,433
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?