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Mémoire du temps n°15
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$879
Collection papillons N°1219
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,239
Watch In Awe As It Unfolds
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
$2,812
Silver abstract
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$8,592
Tranquilité
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$877
Collection papillons N°1226
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,915
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,650
Untitled SE Wild Style Raw large jaune
Seen
Painting - 51 x 140.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 55.3 inch
$2,817
À deux c'est mieux
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,825
Emotion in motion
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 100 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,690
Still life with blue
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,029
Lightness of being
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,904
Cheerful cascade of summer flowers
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,904
Portrait of a girl
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 46 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,183
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,115
Signs of Time VII
Claudia Werth
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,175
Paradise Parasite
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,958
I’m beginning to see the light, green web
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,127
Children's afternoon
Perrine Anna Chantal
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$931
The Magic of the Unknown
Candice Grant
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$600
Fantasy
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 76 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,746
Sojourn
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,690
Symphonie colorée 1
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 20 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$586
Red optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,028
Enjoy Today, While It’s Here
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,141
Abstract n°387
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,408
Abstract n°386
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,408
Abstract n°150
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,408
Abstract n°34
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,606
Abstract n°33
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,606
Abstract Red Black 2
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,394
Abstract n°451
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,606
Abstract n°449
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,606
Abstract n°279
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,408
Abstract n°275
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,408
Abstract n°221
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,408
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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?