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After a winter storm
Nestor Toro
Painting - 119.4 x 94 x 1.3 cm Painting - 47 x 37 x 0.5 inch
$8,530
Celeste spectra (amethysts reflections) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$20,000
Walking in my sleep
Nestor Toro
Painting - 96.5 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Somewhere in Between (Yellow and Gold)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 180.3 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 71 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$21,750
Reflection of colors 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 132.1 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 52 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$12,000
Reflection of colors 6
Nestor Toro
Painting - 162.6 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 64 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Caribbean ocean waters
Nestor Toro
Painting - 147.3 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 58 x 43 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Colorful display of affection 1 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$15,000
Purple Display of Affection (Blue and Silver) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$20,000
Colorful display of affection 2 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Tangled Up In Blue
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$10,000
Drizzles and Rust
Nestor Toro
Painting - 111.8 x 119.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 44 x 47 x 0.7 inch
$5,530
Sparks (Oceanfront night)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 106.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 45 x 42 x 0.7 inch
$7,030
Volcanic lightning (Earth formations)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 38 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Frozen carnival (Water flow)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 188 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 74 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Lush Greenery (Regrowth) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$20,650
Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,057
Nature adventure XL 18
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,672
Ciel rose
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,342 $1,207
Hôtel Majestic 24
Frédéric Batard
Painting - 115.5 x 80.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.5 x 31.7 x 1 inch
$2,113
Big Bang sur papier 21
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$470
Big Bang sur papier 13
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$470
Essence of creation (1)
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$350
Misteri a Venezia
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,907
Fleurs bleues dans la jungle
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,124
Orange sunset. Bali. Crete. Greece
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,578
The Secret of a Good Life
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$19,006
View From the Veranda
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$5,800
When the World Woke Up
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,700
Storm Over the Lowland
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,700
Princess with Horns, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 160 x 243.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 96 x 1 inch
$12,600
The Music Mind
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 142.2 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 56 x 54 x 1 inch
$6,400
Enchanted Music
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1.5 inch
$6,000
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Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,955
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Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,955
Abstract Wall Art Drawing/Painting #11212022
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art Drawing/Painting #01152023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art Drawing/Painting #03082023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art/Painting #04122023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art/Painting #05132023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art/Painting #05182023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art/Painting #06232023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Abstract Wall Art/Painting #06242023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Attraction 24.06
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$391
Attraction 24.05
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$391
Ville et Campagne
Arnaud Dromigny
Painting - 42 x 59.4 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0.8 inch
$626
Breath of Spring
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,400
The magic of the evening
Iryna Bondar
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$559
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?