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Abstract Elevations
Abhishek Kumar
Painting - 121.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 96 x 2 inch
$5,650 $4,238
Yellow Highlands
Abhishek Kumar
Painting - 121.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 96 x 2 inch
$5,650 $5,085
Chromatic Peaks
Abhishek Kumar
Painting - 121.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 96 x 2 inch
$5,650 $5,085
Stylish woman with red lips
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Ceci est une confusion
Yichao Sun
Painting - 100 x 125 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,931
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
Blossoming Delight
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$199
Natural Flow Series n14. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 87.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 34.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
Herramienta en Rojo. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Temperatura - Tinción. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 25.9 x 129.8 x 2.8 cm Painting - 10.2 x 51.1 x 1.1 inch
$1,900
Jardin de Bois de Morville 4-1 Hiver
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 140 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,133
Jardin de Bois de Morville 3-1 Automne
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,194
Jardin de Bois de Morville 2-1 Été
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 140 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,133
Jardin d’Alexandre 1-1 Printemps
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 140 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,133
La Chambre Interdite
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 160 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 2 inch
$26,805
Les Portes Du Soleil
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 160 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 2 inch
$26,805
Rêve Poupre et D'or
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 130 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$24,524
Hommage à l'Ukraine
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$21,102
Voyage Au Bout Du Ciel
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$18,821
Positive Energy M 1 / Oil
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,270
Trace II (Fracture XXV)
Greg Bryce
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$821
A la tombée de la nuit
Cécile Trousse
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$935
Le Village des Biens Heureux
Giuseppe Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,623
Apple tree buds in bloom
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 15 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,939
Japonaise - Portrait de femme semi-abstrait
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$228
Romaine 1 - Série figurative aquarelle et or
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$228
Out of the Water
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 55 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,000
La cueillette
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$2,623
Les heures bleues
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$2,623
Collines bleues - Paysage et couleurs
Didier Caudron
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$895
Racines d'être
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$650
Paysage intérieur
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$650
Passant Parmi Les Paroles Passagères
Francis Moreau
Painting - 46 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$798
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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?