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Corpuscule on apricot
Vuokko Takala - Schreib
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$4,457
Intervalles du carré
Julio Pacheco-Rivas
Painting - 49 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,611
Seven sisters
Wurta Amy French
Painting - 88.9 x 58.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35 x 23 x 0.75 inch
$1,800
Portrait d'Ursula Stauffacher au livre rouge
Alexandre Blanchet
Painting - 91.5 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,142
Looking down from Golden Gate Bridge
Timothy Mulligan
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Albeniz suite espanola granada
Hikaru O
Painting - 33.3 x 24.2 x 2 cm Painting - 13.1 x 9.5 x 0.8 inch
$206
Portrait of man
Pierre Emile Lelong
Painting - 29 x 27 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$542
Poussière de lune
Florence Comas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$3,800
Fire: Do not fear... thresholds are for crossing
Phyllis Viola Boyd
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 inch
$11,000
Slow life and the sun 779
Robert Sokolowski
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,385
Paix dans la lumière
Jean-Claude Bligny
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,062
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,216
Z cyklu Siostry, Spogladajace 2 (sisters looking)
Agnieszka Brzezinska
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$3,216
Pensando en un paisaje
José Carmona
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,764
Meta Peinture Abstraite / Meta Abstract Painting
Jean-Claude Byandb
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,918
Force bloom 24
James Verbicky
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 5.08 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 inch
$22,400
Milky Morning
Asya Feoktistova
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$8,462
Peinture abstraite moderne Évasion
Julien Abstrait
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,805
Brouillon d'or pâle
Christophe Crépin
Painting - 96 x 159 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.8 x 62.6 x 1 inch
$8,914
Polyptique - NYC & Icons special Genius
Dganit Blechner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$3,159
One more try (George Michael)
Mediya Al Matroshy
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,918
Regardez à droite, à gauche et en face
Baptista Antunes
Painting - 38 x 32 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,821
Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Dreaming)
Valentine Nakamarra White
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$282
To embrace the presence I am
Juan Carlos Navarro
Painting - 100 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$9,910
De chair et de sang
Carole Fontana
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,595
That's a nice garden sculpture.
Raymond Legaspi
Painting - 81 x 101.2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.8 inch
$2,552
Mumbo Jumbo NYC#8 - Figurative Painting with Red, Orange, and Blue Colors
Francks Deceus
Painting - 76.2 x 61 cm Painting - 30 x 24 inch
$4,800
### Songe dans une nebuleuse rouge de patates célestes orangées...
Monsieur Térez
Painting - 130 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,708
Assault and battery of the human anatomy
David Pinegar
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$9,760
In the moonlight
Kateryna Ocheredko
Painting - 90 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,500 $1,200
Etat de rêverie
Glodi Kasindi Malumbe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,400
Les 82 lunes de Saturne
Maï Fougeront
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,015
Study for reclining
Jonathan Chapline
Painting - 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.87 cm Painting - 7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch
$16,500
Caryatid II
Allison Harrell
Painting - 105.5 x 71.6 x 6.5 cm Painting - 41.5 x 28.2 x 2.6 inch
$8,631
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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?