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Paysage lacustre automnal
Arthur Amez-Droz
Painting - 65.2 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,419
Sehirde kurulan hayaller - Rêves dans la ville
Amphora
Painting - 29 x 42 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 inch
$454
Face cachée
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$312
Blue, pink and orange
The Big Fat Boy
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$567
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Lounys
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,121
Au fond du vallon
Angela Vertsoni
Painting - 115 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,313
Golfing in Normandy
Rody Iliesco
Painting - 81 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$13,619
Atelier bleu rouge
Jean-Claude Libert
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$3,688
Can you keep a secret
Marisol Evora
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$13,795
Iridescent Blue Centrality
Luigi Boille
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$10,214
Argnac - Composition abstraite
Murielle Vallot dite MucheArt
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$255
Attraction
Vincent Bargis M7
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 1 inch
$6,300
L'oeil de la Nature
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 97 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,156
Traces et mémoire 1
Théodora Vourvouri
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,646
Into the Waves, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Livia Mosanu
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
$520
Ephemerale Love
Luciano Di Concetto
Painting - 140 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$10,782
Opened eyes
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,107
Its Kitsch, Bitch!
Jamie Vincent
Painting - 119 x 149 x 1 cm Painting - 46.9 x 58.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,986
Passage introductif (Après le Disco)
Radu Comsa
Painting - 121 x 95 x 10 cm Painting - 47.6 x 37.4 x 3.9 inch
$10,782
Sour cherries in my garden
Ignata Vasileva
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,313
Composition
Stanley William Hayter
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$8,512
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,497
Goutte-à-goutte (warm vibration)
Sabine Nielsen
Painting - 70 x 160 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 inch
$8,512
The Parade of the Winter
Snezhana Stoyanova
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,107
Planet of sound III- Sven's colors
Amaury Dubois
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,079
Yellow Landscape
Liliana Samulak
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,653
A strong wind from the north
David Gómez
Painting - 61 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,610
Seven sisters
Wurta Amy French
Painting - 88.9 x 58.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35 x 23 x 0.75 inch
$1,800
Happy Valentine day !
Mohammad Hossein Ariyaei
Painting - 50 x 70 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$2,156
Nature morte en cuisine
Jean Pierre Bourg
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,849
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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?