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Cieux tempêtes #1
Laure-Anne Lemaire
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$461
La part de l'autre
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$18,447
Large casual abstraction head on black #1. From The Geometric Head Series
Almo
Painting - 99.8 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,000
Large ondular head on black #1. From The Geometric Head Series
Almo
Painting - 99.8 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,000
Casual Constructivism #2. From The Abstraction Experiments Series
Almo
Painting - 56.9 x 43.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Tanzgruppe - Les danseurs
Hans Mendler
Painting - 70 x 110 x 4.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 1.8 inch
$1,384
Trying to integrate, Painting, Acrylic on MDF panel
Bob Hunt
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,025
Melody for guitar and sax
Silvia Vassileva
Painting - 58.4 x 119.4 x 2 cm Painting - 23 x 47 x 0.8 inch
$1,700
Abstract Art Fifty-Five
Lynne Taetzsch
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,050
Dans la forêt III
Taeho Choi
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 120 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,729
Blue & White Series- Painting 1
Aatmica Ojha
Photography - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,191
La ballerine invisible
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 66 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 26 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,729
Golden Countryside
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,050
The scent of grass during a summer storm
Meriem Delacroix
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,075
Peace and Meeples
Andrea Van Der Hoeven
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$288
Une route longue comme un miroir fertile
Théo Tobiasse
Print - 57 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.4 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$634
Broken celebrity #7
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Victory over the sun #1, (Intervened)
Monika Bravo
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1 inch
$1,999
Yo quiero... Yo quiero
Carmen Cañadas
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$3,545
Perpetual Motion
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 62 x 84 x 0.2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,729 $1,470
Myriade-RGB_2024_0010
Myriad-RGB
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$553
Portables series 1
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 171 x 171 x 1 cm Painting - 67.3 x 67.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,960
Racines miraculeuses haïtiennes
Christophe Mert
Painting - 91 x 78 cm Painting - 35.8 x 30.7 inch
$4,612
Autumn’s Arrival
Johanne Brouillette
Painting - 91 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Serie lethal harmony E13
Manolo Oyonarte
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,718
Sortie de boîte...j’appelle un taxi !!!
Lydi
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,384
Invisibile words (In between)
Gugi Goo
Painting - 119.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$1,094
Untitled
Emilio Bielsa
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$865
L'Homme-Printemps
Jean Messagier
Painting - 76 x 104 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.9 x 0 inch
$9,800
One more try (George Michael)
Mediya Al Matroshy
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,960
Sans titre
Valérie Woillet
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
$692
508 Blue striped grunts school
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 71 x 107 x 2 cm Print - 28 x 42.1 x 0.8 inch
$749
In black frame
Pedro Elias Barreta
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,399
A bittersweet light
Marine Koukoui
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,137
Colored artworks
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?