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Taylor Swift's Sphere zapping of colors
Christian Jodin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$901
Ray of Sunshine (Rayon de Soleil)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$901
Square Hifuka Floral Colorful Art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,927
Composition abstraite N° 150923
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
Composition abstraite N° 26082019
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
Composition abstraite N° 42014
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,163
Marine abstraite 2023-46
Fred Boutet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$732
Chaleur tropicale
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,817
Marine Abstraite 2022-24
Fred Boutet
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$958
Ambivalent visualisation
Mi Jean Kang
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,930
Off to the Field of dreams 2
Thein Shwe
Painting - 76 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
$10,423
Off to the Field of dreams 10
Thein Shwe
Painting - 87 x 87 x 1 cm Painting - 34.3 x 34.3 x 0.4 inch
$8,732
Peinture 06-2021- 60
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,352
Les belles couleurs
Eric Munsch
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,352
Inteligencia Artificial: robots
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,254
Habitante siniestro de la noche
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,915
Poissons chirurgiens
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 101 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$1,341
French angel and corals
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 53 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,127
Vert émeraude
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 100 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,118
Blue lagon
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,006
Diamond Star Blue - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,746
Diamond Star Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,746
They were breakwaters
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$969
In the death car
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,668
Passion
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,780
Week-end en amoureux
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,141
L'Age d'or VI
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$969
Fête de l'été
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,690
Liberté
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,690
On sort les voiles
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,634
View with Eye
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 55 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,239
Happy Emotion I
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$901
The king of light on his skate
Themanfromthefuture Urano
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$845
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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?