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Totem Series I
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€6,062
Autoportrait du jour
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,700
Left (paper) pieces : unknown world
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 44.7 x 27 x 1 cm Painting - 17.6 x 10.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,610
Summer in Italy, Cinque Terre
Ellie Hesse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€3,093 €2,783
Eve of destruction - grande - 3
LN Le Cheviller
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€1,890
Tokyo by night, peinture sur Dibbon
Tony Soulié
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
Plus près de mon étoile - Série pop colorée
Selda Soyut dit Selda
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€625
Dieppe Series 2.0 / VII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
€320
Feel the day calling you
Barbara Piller
Painting - 70 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€873
Cosmic World_Lights#22
Tadas Zaicikas
Painting - 84 x 112 x 0.01 cm Painting - 33.1 x 44.1 x 0 inch
€10,000 €9,000
Monkey human I./ Pulp Art
Funda Studio
Painting - 114 x 105 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 41.3 x 2 inch
€7,200
Bambu em cores século XV
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 149.9 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 63 x 0.1 inch
€4,517
Great view, great car
Leo Bengtson
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€2,800
Nature morte poisson, moules et citrons
Clemente Tafuri
Painting - 36.5 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 14.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,514
Earth Landscapes (Gold Canyon)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Voyage Au Bout Du Ciel
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€16,500
Yeah yeah yeah song
Stéphane Pontié
Painting - 80 x 55.5 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch
€4,500
L'Eden retrouvé Niki et Pablo
Alkaplan
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€7,400
Happy gypsy dance 33
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,200 €720
The Skies At Maruyama Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€3,959
Colors of Nature's Palette
Maya Green
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1 inch
€2,259
The colors of feelings
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,750
Le vol des perroquets
Raimundo Bida
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
My Kid Just Ruined My Basquiat (graf) on canvas
Ziegler T
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€900
Landscape 10
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,412
Can't Stop the Dance
Hilber Nelson
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
€3,300
Clair-obscur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Si a la vida
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
€2,350 €2,115
Saint Jean Crystostome
Bernard Filippi
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
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Colors Painting for Sale
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?