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Cap May NJ - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,025
L'Envol - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,149
REF 54 -17 - Composition n° 63
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 48-17 - Composition n° 66
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 61-17 - Composition n° 61
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 58-17 - Composition n° 62
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 53-17 - Composition n° 64
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 52-17 - Composition n° 65
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
$169
REF 17-19 - Composition florale
Jeanne
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
$394
REF 15-24 - Composition n° 60
Jeanne
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
$394
Pink city Abstract-187
Nivas Kanhere
Painting - 121.9 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 39.5 x 1 inch
$1,750
Un luogo dove l'inferno sta dormendo
Mattia Novello
Painting - 180.3 x 160 x 3.8 cm Painting - 71 x 63 x 1.5 inch
$14,000
I.A 2 - Intelligence Artificielle
Carole Aurore
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$986
Damier fragmenté
Ghislaine Chapuis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,465
Origen del Deseo-Buen Rollo II
Mari Ito
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,592
Small gypsy girl in Amsterdam 6
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$980
Singing with the tides
Barbara Piller
Painting - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,366
Cosmic consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,939
Colourful consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,935
Aurora Australis: The southern lights
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,179
Free spirit no. 2
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$964
Free spirit no. 21
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,209
Cosmic blizzard
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Flowers in the rain
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
No matter how long the winter...
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
Psychedelic sky
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Birds of a feather II
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
$1,946
Volcanic pulse
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 55.9 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$1,210
Positive Mind Positive Vibes Positive Life
Nebay
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,507
Cet Amour il Faudrait le Repeindre
Miss.Tic
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$14,084
Thinking Pomegranate
Yoko d'Holbachie
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$2,141
Fleurs Bohémiennes
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
Mémoire de voyageurs
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,944
Wanna have some fun?
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,787
You make me smile
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,752
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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?