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The Flying Sailors of St Ives
Ellie Hesse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,347
Let's make revolution
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$394
Le Damier
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 144 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,732
Exceptional Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,600
Mary's Mindset
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,437
Joy Comes in the Morning
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,211
Ptosperity. oil painting
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$958
Riflesso di celo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 137 x 160 x 1 cm Painting - 53.9 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,056
Grandmother's viola
Tetiana Adamovich
Painting - 90 x 85 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 33.5 x 1 inch
$1,465
Le temps en mouvement
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$15,775
Les jours heureux
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$18,028
Let's keep them for ourselves
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,465
Sweet Dreams (Douce Rêverie)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$394
Blue heart of the planet
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 105 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 41.3 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,817
The dreams we make come true (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,104 $972
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,028
C'est étonnant, tu crois pas
Jéko
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,352
Still life with scull
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 150.1 x 169.9 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 66.9 x 0.8 inch
$8,873
Mexico City Dust and Other Short Stories 131
RK Polak
Painting - 196.1 x 169.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 77.2 x 66.9 x 2 inch
$12,442
Eve 03, Painting, Oil on Canvas
RK Polak
Painting - 181.1 x 151.9 x 3 cm Painting - 71.3 x 59.8 x 1.2 inch
$9,167
Sierra 7 colores
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,972
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et tulipes 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,028
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et tulipes
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$901
Jardin des lumie?res Roses et Pierres 4
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$901
Sur un arbre perché
Sylvie Basteau
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,589
Les fruits du vent
Sylvie Basteau
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,651
Magic Disorder (Désordre Magique)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$332
Luxe aquatique (avec de la feuille d'or véritable 24 carats)
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
$1,532
J+ suivre sa route
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,479
Environnement chaleureux
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$901
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
A confident smile
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,028
Private investigations
Harry Ergott
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,155
Carrés sans titre 4
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Painting - 20 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$654
Carrés sans titre 3
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Painting - 20 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$654
Into the heart of Provence
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 24 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$620
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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?