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Rien - série personnages
Eric Stein
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$980
Parti pris
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,211
L'huile en Gros Plan_014
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,487
AV_Tulip_Fields_006
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 120 x 94 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37 x 0.2 inch
$2,294
Street art is back
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,998
Pase di Tochisu
Bernard Filippi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$6,918 $6,226
Fondu couleur cuivre magenta violet foncé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$300
Fondu couleur cuivre magenta violet clair
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$300
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,732 $2,050
Chocolate Factory & Crazy Sunset
Marion Sagon
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$208
"Invitation au voyage" semi abstrait acrylique pigment sur lin 60x120cm 2013
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,075
Eve of destruction - grande - 4
LN Le Cheviller
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$2,179
Sfumaturi di colori
Mario Smeraglia
Painting - 40 x 29 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.4 x 0.8 inch
$225 $203
Habana 20
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 44 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$311 $280
Eve of destruction - grande - 2
LN Le Cheviller
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$2,179
Énergie Fluorescente
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,141
Balade automnale
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,614
Synesthetic Letters - Y
Dasha Pears
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$899
Sànehis niegus gullui ivdni
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
$17,459
Formes abstractives bleues
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$404
Barcelone - nuit -1
Julien Jubault
Painting - 125 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$807
Grand éclat or gris
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$404
La musique prend vie
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2.4 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.9 inch
$1,499
Tactile memory #145
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 45.7 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 18 x 15 x 3 inch
$4,200
Garden of Joy 50
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 80 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
$1,268 $888
Amérique du Sud, favelas, la vie
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,441
Purple flowers
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$999
Those Sunset Vibes
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 100 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 3.9 inch
$3,286
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,071
Paysage du soir
Claire Duplouy
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$461
Revoir la lumière
Claire Duplouy
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 51 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$484
Le Marais
Claire Duplouy
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 51 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$484
Des fleurs pour mes entrailles
Claire Duplouy
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$484
Saule pleureur
Claire Duplouy
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$484
Teddy (Nounours)
Socrate
Sculpture - 50 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$1,672 $1,505
Les arbres 03.12.23
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,920
Les arbres 02.12.23
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,920
Drab days and Coloured Minds #2
Giò Schiano
Sculpture - 51 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,026
Lobster dinner at the Carlyle
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
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?