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Tu me manques pourtant tu es là
Yohan Storti
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$339
Too much love will kill you
Yohan Storti
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$339 $170
Le Conmer from Hom'mere III - L'Ergonaute
Roberto Matta
Print - 67.3 x 50.8 cm Print - 26.5 x 20 inch
$2,500
Je Suis Entact from Une Saison en Enfer
Roberto Matta
Print - 66 x 50.8 cm Print - 26 x 20 inch
$4,750
Etre atout from Hom'mere III - L'Ergonaute
Roberto Matta
Print - 67.3 x 50.8 cm Print - 26.5 x 20 inch
$2,500
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Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 207 x 63 x 2 cm Painting - 81.5 x 24.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,042
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Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 206 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 81.1 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$2,042
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Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 208 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 81.9 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$2,042
Little piece of joy
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,042
1984 Bleu Blue
Jérôme Tisserand
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,078
Asie, simplicité d'ailleurs
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,129
Geometry with curves
Marek Uhlir
Painting - 59.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$888
Brainstorm
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,753
Follow the Money
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,964
Gender Personality
Woko Aguru
Painting - 121 x 106.1 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 41.8 x 1.2 inch
$4,537
Les femmes d'Alger, édition limitée
Speedy Graphito
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.05 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$851
Les femmes de Tahiti, sérigraphie originale
Speedy Graphito
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.05 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$851
Quand le ciel s'enflamme
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,588
Pareja paseando
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,134
Mujer en la noche
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$907
Belleza frente a desgracia
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,134
Atracción
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,021
Busto en pedestal
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,021
Pensamientos
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,021
Perfect coincidence 20
Kyong Lee
Painting - 27.3 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,010
Perfect coincidence 12
Kyong Lee
Painting - 33.4 x 21.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.1 x 8.4 x 0 inch
$1,010
Perfect coincidence 4
Kyong Lee
Painting - 22.5 x 22.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.9 x 8.9 x 0 inch
$1,010
Emotional color chart 198
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,010
Emotional color chart 184
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,010
Reclamo anónimo
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,134
The precious heartbeat
Julius Babilonia
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,776
Soleil d'hiver
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,021
Panels orange neon vintage
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,133
Riflessi Smeraldo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 160 x 580 x 1 cm Painting - 63 x 228.3 x 0.4 inch
$24,388
Blooming Love Story
Elisa Costa
Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,220
About The Rose # II
Elisa Costa
Painting - 89.9 x 69.1 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,054
My Kid Just Ruined My Haring III (Jackson Pollock version inversed)
Ziegler T
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$340
Traffic Full Color Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,407
The Khadi Collection: Blue
Aatmica Ojha
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,155
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?