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Prada Bag Ladies
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$700
Multicolors rouge et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$571
Youth
João Almeida (xUEkA)
Painting - 162 x 130 x 1.5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.6 inch
$5,124 $3,843
Daylight Tribe
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 54.5 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 21.5 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,972
A branch from a branch IV
Johnny Semaan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,850
A branch from a branch III
Johnny Semaan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,850
A branch from a branch II
Johnny Semaan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,850 $1,665
A branch from a branch I
Johnny Semaan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,850
Soft abstraction VIII
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$796
The bridge
Catherine Clare
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$1,902 $1,712
Elegance Adorned
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,350 $1,148
The Happening
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,400
Breaking Barriers
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,400
The Dance of Pride
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$1,350
Beyond the sea no. 1423
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 81.3 x 200.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 79 x 1 inch
$1,465
Atlantic crossing no. 17020
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 48.3 x 200.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 79 x 0.1 inch
$984
Chiudi gli occhi e vedrai
Ivana Urso
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$922
Believe in yourself
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,075
Exotic Flowers
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 69.9 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 27.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$924
Happy Gypsy Dance 18
Soos Tiberiu
Painting - 80 x 160 x 10.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 4 inch
$1,542
Gypsy Skirt Rounded in Amsterdam 2
Soos Tiberiu
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,040
Happy Gypsy Dance 22
Soos Tiberiu
Painting - 80 x 140 x 10.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 4 inch
$1,264
Beyond Beauty
Babatunde Adeogun
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
$3,200
Les livres de Colette
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,381
The woman who sails somewhere...
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 85 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,535
Mantra (Implosion)
Yunior Marino
Painting - 167.6 x 190.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66 x 75 x 0.1 inch
$4,800
Unforgettable moments
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,306
Un peu plus haut sur la falaise
Severine Dietrich
Painting - 97 x 137 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 53.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,075
Red optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,075
Sans titre -TAF668759
Yann Guinchan
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$980
Earth Landscapes (House of the Setting Sun)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$519
Earth Landscapes (Camping Park)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$519
Earth Landscapes (Yellow Valley)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$519
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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?