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Cool et vive les fleurs
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€450 €315
Turquoise
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 95 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,900 €3,510
Cailloux Zen
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,700 €2,430
"Feu" semi abstrait triptyque acrylique sur lin 70x150cm 2015
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 70 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€2,100
"Besoin de légèreté" abstrait acrylique collage sable sur lin 72x70cm 2020
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 72 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
Cool kidz never die
Arthur Cronier
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.9 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€500
Costiera Almafitana
Mario Smeraglia
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€285 €257
Azul ultramar
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
Maud - Abstrait nu N°9
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€990
Tant qu'il y aura des fleurs
David Jamin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
€670
In the end, everything comes back
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€557
Dreamscape - Zenobia
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€2,635
Vert paradis
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,900
Parati (Géométrie nomade 2017)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
La golfeuse Atthaya Thitikul
Joelle De Lacanau
Painting - 29 x 29 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.2 inch
€400
Delicious still life 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,740
Marine abstraite 2024-57
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1 inch
€1,200
Surrounded by Friends
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,100
Argentines
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Le compte est bon
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
The Time Curve #5
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Le pays des sources N°21
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Alessandro Michele
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 40.6 x 29.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16 x 11.75 x 1 inch
€1,129 €1,016
"Jeux de balles" abstrait acrylique sable poudre de marbre bristol marouflé sur bois 80x80cm 2009
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,100
Never Ending Story 6.
Petr Strnad
Painting - 41.9 x 29.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€250
Still life with chicken
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€760
Hello, Are You Looking For More Coffee? / Colourscape 92
Simon Findlay
Painting - 20 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
€250
Shoreditch 1&2
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 82 x 43 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 16.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
Le monde des media
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 72 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
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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?