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Paysage en bleu et vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 32 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$564
Composition en vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 37 x 36 x 4 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,015
Paysage en bleu gris I
Cécile Girard
Painting - 63 x 47 x 4 cm Painting - 24.8 x 18.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,144
Paysage en bleu gris II
Cécile Girard
Painting - 62 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 24.4 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,144
Paysage en bleu gris
Cécile Girard
Painting - 62 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 24.4 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,144
Changing destinies
Christian Valentine
Painting - 101.6 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 2 inch
$800
Time begins again
Christian Valentine
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 1 inch
$520
Night Fragrance XIV
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 88.9 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 47 x 2 inch
$1,713
Soirée les filles... pfou ça manque de mecs
Lydi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,015
Soirée psychédélique à la plage
Lydi
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,580
Amazonia - série couleurs outre-mer
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$846
Brume colorée - série couleurs outre-mer
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$846
Potomitan - série couleurs outre-mer
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$846
Cycle - série couleurs outre-mer
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$846
Vagues montagneuses
Catherine Pugeat
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$970
Le lac de vieux boucau
Jules Cier
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$1,692
Wonder Women Pop Star
Sara Chelou
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,354
Naissance du désir
Catherine Pugeat
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$621
Copain copine
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,422
Waves and Particles
Yunior Marino
Painting - 167.6 x 190.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 66 x 75 x 0.3 inch
$6,400
Epouseur du lieu
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,128
Bucolique
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,031
Composition sur fond noir, c.
André Lanskoy
Painting - 65 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$13,540
La constellation du Dragon
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 44 x 44 x 2.5 cm Painting - 17.3 x 17.3 x 1 inch
$1,568
La palette de Basquiat-Duduss (1)
Toctoc
Painting - 56 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,580
Textil urbano- Paisaje fuego interior. De la serie Geschichte
Verónica Sanes
Painting - 80 x 120 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,162
Drive To Its Edge - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$855
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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?