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![Painting, L'étreinte, Lourdes Ral](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229177_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rêve d’un jour, Angelo Garbo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1031811_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Energiepool, Nina Lanner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210255_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, DeathMb585, Death NYC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191867_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 307, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1161819_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Un monde riant, Jean-Charles De Castelbajac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/307105_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Castle of dreams, Peter Keizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218168_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The World XXL, Caroline Vis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212930_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rajao (Réhaussé / Hand-Embellished), Yoann Bonneville (YBA)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203777_1_grid.jpg)
Rajao (Réhaussé / Hand-Embellished)
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$329
![Print, Mara et ses chats, Léa Roche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228694_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wild and free, Maya Green](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217929_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selfie IX, Moses Baite](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199987_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Thinking of Summer, Dominik Jasinski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176968_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Together, Natalya Mougenot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229314_1_grid.jpg)
Together
Natalya Mougenot
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$408
![Painting, Été indien, Gat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2221642_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The last days of Zion, Ziad Dib Jreige](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207763_1_grid.jpg)
The last days of Zion
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$625
![Photography, KADJ - Le réverbère - Nantes - île de Nantes - série photo couleur danse et architecture, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202163_1_grid.jpg)
KADJ - Le réverbère - Nantes - île de Nantes - série photo couleur danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$656
![Painting, Point Series (Strata) 26, James Lumsden](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201005_1_grid.jpg)
Point Series (Strata) 26
James Lumsden
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,928
![Painting, Majorelle, Agnès Tiollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195662_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ouessant - Paysage insulaire - série île de Bretagne, Laurent Chabot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230148_1_grid.jpg)
Ouessant - Paysage insulaire - série île de Bretagne
Laurent Chabot
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$272
![Painting, Barcelone - nuit -1, Julien Jubault](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229829_1_grid.jpg)
Barcelone - nuit -1
Julien Jubault
Painting - 125 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$794
![Painting, Bilma, Marta Aguirre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217392_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tango Dandy, Jean-Michel Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201762_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gang Of Four, Fernand Kayser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199670_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flowers, Michael Milkin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197483_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, A New Life 01, Angelica Tcherassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1446801_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Otoño de un sueño, Manuel Solà Moreno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219514_1_grid.jpg)
Otoño de un sueño
Manuel Solà Moreno
Painting - 116 x 98 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 38.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,949
![Painting, Superbloom, Sophie Duplain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217770_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Barbade, Chouette Nia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217733_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 47, Guntduth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216605_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, III (Three) Imperfect Imperfections, Makama John](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200027_1_grid.jpg)
III (Three) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,299
![Painting, Papier bulle, Dominique Kennel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215067_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bugs loves Paris, Nacks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194054_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ref 38-17 - Où l'instinct nous mène..., Jeanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229044_1_grid.jpg)
Ref 38-17 - Où l'instinct nous mène...
Jeanne
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,248
![Painting, N°500, Pierre-Luc Poujol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2105652_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Origin Story, Ken Garduno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215186_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Secret, Gillian Brin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212907_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le Salon des Hessels, d’après Vuillard. (2), Charlotte Moore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206967_1_grid.jpg)
Le Salon des Hessels, d’après Vuillard. (2)
Charlotte Moore
Print - 51 x 63.5 cm Print - 20.1 x 25 inch
$681
![Print, November, 2021, Sarah Morris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201844_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Almaz, Eric Robin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180111_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pink Painting (Landscape No.7), Doris Marten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113614_1_grid.jpg)
Pink Painting (Landscape No.7)
Doris Marten
Painting - 30 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,063
![Painting, Trace de coeur, Yu Fu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204758_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Femme au turban jaune, E. Rosselli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196778_1_grid.jpg)
Femme au turban jaune
E. Rosselli
Painting - 55.4 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,604
![Painting, Fleurs multicolores, Gaëlle Kondrat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228785_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mélange de Couleurs, Flog](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214504_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Floating over pink #2, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831413_1_grid.jpg)
Floating over pink #2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
![Painting, Eve of destruction - grande - 3, LN Le Cheviller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228363_1_grid.jpg)
Eve of destruction - grande - 3
LN Le Cheviller
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$2,144
![Painting, Maxi-format 2, Timer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228058_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Style!, Rey Oner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227632_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Batman, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217361_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oneness, Maria Bacha](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170483_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage de montagne et d’eau, Liqun Zhu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204161_1_grid.jpg)
Paysage de montagne et d’eau
Liqun Zhu
Painting - 42 x 68 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 26.8 x 0.4 inch
$794
![Painting, Landscape, Mitko Dimitrov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200648_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Levitation II, Naoko Paluszak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2185271_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Feu d'artifice, Jean-francois Larrieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211304_1_grid.jpg)
Feu d'artifice
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$22,687
![Painting, Crumpled Art- Andie Love Purple, Mister Luca T](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227520_1_grid.jpg)
Crumpled Art- Andie Love Purple
Mister Luca T
Painting - 94 x 96 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 37.8 x 1.6 inch
$9,869
![Painting, Trinité Green kub - Portrait Pop art cubisme, Nathalie Paccalet dite Nathy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217548_1_grid.jpg)
Trinité Green kub - Portrait Pop art cubisme
Nathalie Paccalet dite Nathy
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$363
![Painting, Les arbres 04.05.24, Laurent Bouro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206541_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, New Utopias #4 (Blonde Girl) | Fotografiska Berlin 2024 : Miles Aldridge : Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn., Miles Aldridge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203294_1_grid.jpg)
New Utopias #4 (Blonde Girl) | Fotografiska Berlin 2024 : Miles Aldridge : Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn.
Miles Aldridge
Photography - 111 x 98 cm Photography - 43.7 x 38.6 inch
$8,508
![Painting, Left (paper) pieces : unknown world, Hansol Yoon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468710_1_grid.jpg)
Left (paper) pieces : unknown world
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 44.7 x 27 x 1 cm Painting - 17.6 x 10.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,826
![Painting, Window, Hyunah Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1412463_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Summer Kiss (Nicosia), Brian Bartlett](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1318800_1_grid.jpg)
Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,077
![Painting, Bain sylvestre, Sange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214500_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Magnolia II, Sylvain Lang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213870_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Delphinus II, Gaelle Beyaert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210470_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213733_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$363
![Painting, Untitled 2, Aasiri Wickremage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mediterranean sea, Rob Buntin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200029_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Partition sémantique 3, Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1460142_1_grid.jpg)
Partition sémantique 3
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,815
![Painting, La femme au coeur, Zafi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204462_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Regards, Ludovica Cholet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220652_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Édition Miaooo abstract III, Seb Paul Michel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216543_1_grid.jpg)
Édition Miaooo abstract III
Seb Paul Michel
Print - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$124
![Painting, Je pars, Nawel Grant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212624_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Compuvas, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201107_1_grid.jpg)
Compuvas
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 140 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,403 $2,722
![Painting, Gants noir, Georges Darel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198181_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In Frame Series: Relax At Home, Suanjaya Kencut](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219208_1_grid.jpg)
In Frame Series: Relax At Home
Suanjaya Kencut
Painting - 104.14 x 88.9 x 2.54 cm Painting - 41 x 35 x 1 inch
$30,000
![Painting, Natation, Stéphane Cantin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207180_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage I, Zisong Xu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204163_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'Homme post-moderne, Antonio Camaró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217643_1_grid.jpg)
L'Homme post-moderne
Antonio Camaró
Painting - 130 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$81,672
![Photography, Remember To Forget, series Albahian, Joana Choumali](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216240_1_grid.jpg)
Remember To Forget, series Albahian
Joana Choumali
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$24,955
![Painting, Love letters in the sand I, Ilgvars Zalans](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205075_1_grid.jpg)
Love letters in the sand I
Ilgvars Zalans
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,382
![Painting, Humeur vagabonde, Dann Aubert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212887_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grammy, Peter Max](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202813_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le réveil du printemps, Sana Hichri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199555_1_grid.jpg)
Le réveil du printemps
Sana Hichri
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,672
![Painting, Mareggiata al tramonto, Mario Smeraglia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2221152_1_grid.jpg)
Mareggiata al tramonto
Mario Smeraglia
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$335
![Painting, Par dessus les montagnes, Mathilde André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220133_1_grid.jpg)
Par dessus les montagnes
Mathilde André
Painting - 18 x 28 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$340 $323
![Painting, Paysage fleuri, Albert DUCOMMUN](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chalets et patûrage, H.Bani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200271_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Big Chief, Barthélémy Grossmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227787_1_grid.jpg)
Big Chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$14,053
![Painting, Un songe, recto-verso, Cyril Destrade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229193_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tempête, Marie-Jo Daloz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le chapeau rouge, Moreno Pincas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198523_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golfeuse M, Joelle De Lacanau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219430_1_grid.jpg)
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?