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Ulmus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,625
Vol de papillons - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,230
Paysage en bleu vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 29 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,063
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 60 x 43 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€1,000
Large jar with Japanese traditional patterns
Hikaru O
Painting - 149 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 58.7 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€2,200
Complotisme - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,880
Somewhere in time IV
Plamen Kirilov
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Cosmo Podos
Marie Christine Palombit
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Geschüle Unlerwe
Kurt Josef Haas
Painting - 121 x 101 x 2 cm Painting - 47.6 x 39.8 x 0.8 inch
€15,000
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Dimension infinie
Roselyne Michel
Painting - 80 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Serie The Landscape No.1
Qing-Chun Diao
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,300
1978 Green Abstraction verte
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,050
Untitled VIII
Alejandra Quintanilla
Painting - 67 x 67 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26.37 x 26.37 x 0.1 inch
€1,129
Portal of Aligned Manifestation
Liz McDonough
Painting - 50 x 150.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,234
Onde vibratoire jaune
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Take Me Out of the Blue (10)
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
€871
Meditation
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.1 inch
€1,700
Petals Swaying in the Wind
Alison Lee
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.5 inch
€1,129
La Vida es Bella
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 40 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
La machine infernale
Damienne Valentin
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€700
Take Your Places
Denise Souza Finney
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,280
The First Cracks in the Cosmos
Preston M Smith
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,393
Veil of Whispers
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,848
Trying to integrate, Painting, Acrylic on MDF panel
Bob Hunt
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€965
Melody for guitar and sax
Silvia Vassileva
Painting - 58.4 x 119.4 x 2 cm Painting - 23 x 47 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Abstract Art Fifty-Five
Lynne Taetzsch
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,929
La ballerine invisible
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 66 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 26 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Golden Countryside
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
€988
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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?