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Earthbound Serenity (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,198
Flying Cats on the Road
M.Chat
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,839 $7,955
Secret Behind the Colors
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$320
Conversion of Colors
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$320 $272
Rittersporn | Delphinium
Klaus Meyer-Gasters
Painting - 110 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$11,514
Métamorphoses n°4
Alice Maier
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$384 $230
Fleurs rouges et jaunes
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 150 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,512
Histoire d'entrechats
Victorine Follana
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,512
Coquelicots dansants
Gyslaine Pachet-Micheneau
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,134
Les 4 éléments n°3 (lot de 2)
Alice Maier
Painting - 100 x 140 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.2 inch
$221
Côte rose. Matinée près de la mer
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 42 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 24 x 0 inch
$1,047
Madalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
YOUTHONE
Painting - 103 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,163
Red Bulgarian Pepper
Gevorg Sinanyan
Painting - 31 x 22 x 0.6 cm Painting - 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.2 inch
$300
Love is all we need
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,047
Light in a colourful wood
Pol Ledent
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$872
Création abstraite A175 avec cadre
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$930
In the rhythm of tango,#5
Schagen Vita
Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$186
Parfaite osmose
Giuseppe Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,675
Jeune fille au cœur tendre
Giuseppe Piermatteo
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,489
La dame à la guitare
Giuseppe Piermatteo
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,279
Parapluie et dendelions
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,698
Aux portes de la sagesse
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,861
Riflesso di luna sul mare
Davide Angelillo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$151
Les détours imprévus
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$558
Le souvenir d'un désir d'amour
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$558
Une certaine idée du bonheur
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$291
Quand la douceur épouse la lumière
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$291
Une histoire heureuse
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$209
Femme à la cigarette
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 29 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$384
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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?