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Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$407
Marine abstraite 2024-52
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,014
Marine abstraite 2024-58
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1 inch
$1,352
Marine abstraite 2024-61
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$789
Marine abstraite 2024-60
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$789
Adanna (Cultural Fusion)
Godfrey Chukwuebuka
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,750
Cherries and Roses
Ania Pieniazek
Painting - 70 x 60 x 10 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 3.9 inch
$1,138
Wildflowers
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Blossoming Romance
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,394
Au jardin des Tuileries
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$620
Fusion 2 - Paysage abstrait d'une activité solaire sur la terre
Thierry Nauleau
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,535
Erosion - Paysage abstrait et évènement climatique
Thierry Nauleau
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,535
Lagonis - Paysage abstrait vu du ciel entre terre et mer
Thierry Nauleau
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,817
A Passionate Activist
Harita Asumani
Painting - 80 x 64 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.2 x 2 inch
$1,521
Vibration temporelle
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$992
World reflected
Kotaro Machiyama
Painting - 41 x 60.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 23.9 x 1 inch
$1,250
Warm light, semi-abstract landscape
Schagen Vita
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,408
Parfaite osmose
Giuseppe Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,592
Blue Night City Lights
Olga Mihailicenko
Painting - 58.4 x 88.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$1,190
Rouget d'origine noble dorée
Robert Combas
Painting - 46.5 x 34 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 13.4 x 1 inch
$32,676
In the rhythm of tango,#5
Schagen Vita
Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$180
Allez Tous Vous Faire Aimer
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 24 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch
$327
BRUMES 2023 120x240cm Peinture Vernis Brillant Olivier Ebel
Olivier Ebel
Painting - 120 x 240 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 94.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,197
132 The Lovestorm in Pink & Gold
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 131 x 96 x 3 cm Painting - 51.6 x 37.8 x 1.2 inch
$26,479
La Manif - Scène de vie urbaine figurative
Christiane Dumon
Painting - 82 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,262
Paris autrement – Scène de vie urbaine figurative
Christiane Dumon
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,042
Peinture 01-2024-05
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
Peinture 01-2024-04
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
Gold abstract painting #0014 (diptych)
Olena Topliss
Painting - 27.9 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 11 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$602
Flower Swing - large floral textured painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,366
A Floral Journey into Presence large square painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 110 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
$2,930
Blue Rose Stroll - large beige floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,930
Voyages en Arcadie N°147
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,465 $1,318
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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?