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Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,133
Octagonal Composition
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$907
Autoportrait du jour
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,928
Parapluie et dendelions
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,656
Circling thoughts
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,836
Bold and Beautiful
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$826 $769
Paris 2024 Jeux olympique
Jean-Charles Gautier
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,403
Grand éclat flamboyant violacé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$397
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
$4,800
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
Au bord de la cascade
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 96 x 112 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 44.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,792
Voyage Au Bout Du Ciel
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$18,717
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
$5,105
You Can Depend on Me
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Estival
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$771
Voici venu l’été de porcelaine
Conie Senac
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$3,267
Rhapsody in blue
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,225
Métamorphose
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,588
Trees of colour
Linda Collins Lamb
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,148
La donna alla finestra
Lorena Fonsato
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$227
Play & Diversity 17
Lucie Jirku
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,480
The colors of feelings
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,388
Herramienta en Amarillo. 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
Jouteusement Vôtre
Marie-Aude Molin
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.25 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
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Earth Landscapes (Gold Canyon)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$737
The Storm Participant
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,309
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
$4,764
Tableau d'une trahison
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$976
A fond de cale
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 130 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$4,537
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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?