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The emerald spirit of Africa
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€1,500
Rhododendron Study No.10
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€1,035
La vague scélérate
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,490
La forêt intérieure
Clémence Dupuch
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Plier, Deplier, Experimenter
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 89 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,990
Touching, Touched, Remix
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,490
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Oltre il canale
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
€900
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
€960
Moonshine in my countryside
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€700
Lavender in Provence 6524
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€700
There is a nice valley overthere
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€700
Red poppies in my countryside
Pol Ledent
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€700
Morning walk in the wood
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€700
This is the season of the witch
Pol Ledent
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€700
A tiny village in winter
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€700
Still life wild flowers 5624
Pol Ledent
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€700
Waterlilies on a blue pond
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Perspectives Manhattan
Daniel Castan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,850
Midnight Melodies
Godwin Arikpo
Painting - 91.44 x 121.92 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€1,599
When everything is upside down
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,350
Immersione nell'inconscio
Ivana Urso
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Femme à l'enfant
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,500 €2,250
Quand le silence est d'or
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€180
Je reviens te chercher
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Alteración de la magia
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,850
Bombardeo de Gernika
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,850
La magia del color en un mundo imaginativo
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,850
Poisson Arlequin
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 92 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Queen angel facing
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€940
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€3,400
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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?