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Music of the Countryside
Janice Toulouse
Painting - 40 x 55.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.9 x 1 inch
$576
Le pays des sources N°16
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,960
Plus fort que tout
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$415
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$392
Entre deux mondes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 4.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
$219
Méta-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$968
Spring Love
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$2,410
Soft abstraction X
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$691
Independently Together
Lisa Daniels
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,150
Sun-Scorched Seaweed
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 18 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,637
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,585
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,585
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 68 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,153
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 65 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,153
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,153
Mouvement - Abstraction
Nicole Gérard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,522
L'accordéoniste - Semi-abstrait
Nicole Gérard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,522
Haut en couleur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$611
Village de rêve
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,764
Rochers réfléchissants
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Impression Chebanieh
Joanna Raad
Painting - 58 x 68 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.8 x 26.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,800
Le sentier vers le ciel
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,191
Les nymphéas jaunes
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,191
Le viel homme et la mer - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,168
Je pleure mes larmes intérieures - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,168
Le voyage de E.T - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,168
La forme de l'eau - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,168
Organdi - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,015
Matin de la terre - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,879
Parfum d'alentour - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,591
Sonia Spider Quenell
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,300
Plein feux sur l'Est de l'île
Bernard-Marie Lauté
Painting - 38 x 38 cm Painting - 15 x 15 inch
$1,384
La voile rouge
Gaspard Alexanders
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$23,116
Just the two of us
Marleen Stegeman
Painting - 24 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,268
BabyBrat Diablo rouge debout
Brat
Sculpture - 36 x 13 x 21 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.1 x 8.3 inch
$5,765
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,441
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,441
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?