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La médaille - Histoire et Politique
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€440
Golden maples in Kolomenskoye
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€3,500
Thunderstorm in Lopatino
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€3,598
Spring in Kolomenskoye
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,600
Golden maples in Tsaritsyno
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 21 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€3,300
The third voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1498
Federico Cortese
Painting - 39.9 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 22 x 0.1 inch
€476
Vert paradis
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,900
The horizon of thought
Hyunah Kim
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,839
Jarrón de tulipanes
Manuel Perez
Painting - 100 x 140 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Self portrait (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€50
J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€2,000
Une vague de changement
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€75
Geometrical shapes XII
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 30.5 x 14.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 5.7 x 0 inch
€350
Le mont sacré de l'Atlantique
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€75
Tulips on a Yellow Table
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,287
Au détour d'une promenade
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€75
City in Cherry Blossoms
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,906
Heaven in a Wild Flower
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 170 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
20 Novembre 2023
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,250
The currency: 6274. nobody should hear it
Damien Hirst
Painting - 21.5 x 30 cm Painting - 8.5 x 11.8 inch
€18,500
"L'élégance des arbres en hiver" abstrait acrylique collage poudre de marbre châssis lin l92x65cm 2020
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
Volar siempre te da libertad
Claudia Gallardo
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,178
Sunlit Butterfly Canvas
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€362 €308
The dancing man (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
Lumière d'été sur les rochers
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€400
Autumnal mood-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Jump session(Jazzy)-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€900
Autumnal mood-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€990
Autumn on the lake
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€600
"Enfouissement" abstrait acrylique collage végétaux sur lin 73x60cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
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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?