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Tapis carrés magiques – Sonia Delaunay x Artcurial
Sonia Delaunay
Design - 293 x 180 x 2 cm Design - 115.4 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$12,478
Silhouettes. Tarifa 1
Elena Done
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$590
Le coeur et l'âme
Fabienne Ribeyrolles
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,418
Melting in the Heat
Stephanie Berry
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
Code barre vert
Philippe Siennicka
Design - 55 x 40 x 15 cm Design - 21.7 x 15.7 x 5.9 inch
$1,702 $1,616
Femme cheval
Caroline Crozat
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 65 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,588
Earth rhythms - 4
Stefan Fierros
Painting - 71.4 x 71.4 x 4.1 cm Painting - 28.1 x 28.1 x 1.6 inch
$711
Envy _ Ultra Violet version
Johan Chaaz
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$284
I can hear you
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 2 inch
$49,000
Couple dansant frénétique
Déesse
Sculpture - 43 x 27 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 10.6 x 9.8 inch
$668
Night in Paris
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 130 x 162.6 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 64 x 1.2 inch
$2,947
Dave Mattheus & Tim Reynolds
Alan Berry Rhys
Print - 62 x 46 x 1 cm Print - 24.4 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$261
No name, Painting, Oil on canvas
Asher Topel
Painting - 100.1 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,900
Green Vibes Numero 6
Edouard Tournier
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,904
Scientific Premonition
Leandro Moya
Painting - 85 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,004
Competing Thoughts
Michael Mccullough
Painting - 121.9 x 96.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 48 x 38 x 0.3 inch
$3,250
Family portrait 3
Kirubel Melke Alemu
Sculpture - 180 x 310 x 1 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 122 x 0.4 inch
$4,537
J.S. Bach, Goldberg variation, Aria
Ernestine Tahedl
Painting - 165.1 x 116.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 65 x 46 x 1.8 inch
$5,141
Kitchen Indoor - Pakistan (7)
Sarah Caron
Photography - 34 x 49 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$1,475
Iris Apfel
Sylvie de la Happy Funky Family
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$408
Ste Victoire and Zola Dam view from Bibemus, After Cézanne
Madeleine Love
Painting - 41 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$1,021
Breakaway Yellow
Wendy Smith
Painting - 89.9 x 119.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,536
Scène de basse cour ou la table du changeur
Bernard Pons
Painting - 95 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,722
Sans titre
Charles Djerry
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 20.1 inch
$1,588
Coupollo
Alexandre Richelieu-Beridze
Painting - 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,537 $3,630
Zest F60
Franck Noto a.k.a. Zest
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,075
Ouverture 217
Toxic
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 51 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,970
Drain color
Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,895
Black is strong or not
Saloua Sarhiri
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,048
Anonimo pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 116.6 x 99.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 45.9 x 39.3 x 1.8 inch
$4,000
West Broadway & Bowery
Susana Aldanondo
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,400
The third boat
Moses Nyawanda
Painting - 111.5 x 83.5 x 2 cm Painting - 43.9 x 32.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,815
Colored artworks
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?