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![Painting, Dancers in the night, Pol Ledent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2235613_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fly with me, Mercedes Lagunas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2232386_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Domino, Bernard Filippi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2232041_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Never Ending Story 5., Petr Strnad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231608_1_grid.jpg)
Never Ending Story 5.
Petr Strnad
Painting - 41.7 x 29.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.4 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$289
![Painting, Monet Japanese Garden in Giverny - diptych, Ruslana Levandovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229007_1_grid.jpg)
Monet Japanese Garden in Giverny - diptych
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 0.75 inch
$30,000
![Painting, Les cartes - Elucubrationes, Patopalomo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228061_1_grid.jpg)
Les cartes - Elucubrationes
Patopalomo
Painting - 14.8 x 14.8 x 0.34 cm Painting - 5.8 x 5.8 x 0.1 inch
$87
![Painting, Les cartes - Viens Poupoule, Patopalomo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228060_1_grid.jpg)
Les cartes - Viens Poupoule
Patopalomo
Painting - 14.8 x 14.8 x 0.14 cm Painting - 5.8 x 5.8 x 0.1 inch
$87
![Fine Art Drawings, Flower, Arthur Hent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219444_1_grid.jpg)
Flower
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$577
![Painting, Batman, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217361_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Inner Beauty, Mateos Sargsyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216402_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grand éclat bleu et noir, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211954_1_grid.jpg)
Grand éclat bleu et noir
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$404
![Painting, Chenrezig et Kamala, Sange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210479_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, X Men Haring Replay, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209921_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black warrior Basquiat, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209383_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Agave americana N°3, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208313_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Special dreams, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207831_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Special dreams_n2, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207829_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rock Band, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207823_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Camden town III, Yoann Bonneville (YBA)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207269_1_grid.jpg)
Camden town III
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$3,232
![Painting, Chimere hypnotique, Nawel Aubert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205986_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Anse des cascades, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tag n° 2307, Saname](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151121_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amazing cities, Rico Sab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142604_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Twins, Jade Mouge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119191_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Power Station & Sweet Landscape, Marion Sagon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1722504_1_grid.jpg)
Power Station & Sweet Landscape
Marion Sagon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,964
![Painting, Flores Rosas y Rojas, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231790_1_grid.jpg)
Flores Rosas y Rojas
Manuel Perez
Painting - 100 x 215 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 84.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,848
![Painting, Estrella Bromelia, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231789_1_grid.jpg)
Estrella Bromelia
Manuel Perez
Painting - 100 x 215 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 84.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,848
![Painting, Nenúfar Rosa, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231786_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flor naranja, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231721_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Peronia, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231720_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Création A432, Jean-Jacques Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231621_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Maze, Hilber Nelson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219610_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spin Cycles, Hilber Nelson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219608_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Circles Soleil, Hilber Nelson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219607_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hoi An, Francesco Calistri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219189_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, African blues, Shanon Bee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214467_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lion, M.Cros](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211070_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marche bleu au soleil, Mark Kaplan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209326_1_grid.jpg)
Marche bleu au soleil
Mark Kaplan
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,315
![Painting, Marche bleu, Mark Kaplan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209321_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Couleurs de Provence, Mark Kaplan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209303_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Provence passionnée, Mark Kaplan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209294_1_grid.jpg)
Provence passionnée
Mark Kaplan
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$10,389
![Painting, Luci nel buio, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181479_1_grid.jpg)
Luci nel buio
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 56.5 x 76 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.2 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,270
![Painting, Giallo blu, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181477_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Composition No. 450, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175518_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 450
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$923
![Painting, Composition No. 453, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175502_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 453
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 97 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,501
![Painting, Composition No.419, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151398_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No.419
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 61 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,501
![Painting, Composition No.413, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151374_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No.413
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 71 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28 x 1.2 inch
$1,962
![Painting, Landscape18, Karina Antonczak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2073912_1_grid.jpg)
Landscape18
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,550
![Painting, Geo campi di grano, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449231_1_grid.jpg)
Geo campi di grano
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,558
![Painting, Untitled, Joaquim Falcó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1406853_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rustle of Birds, Katharina Husslein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325214_1_grid.jpg)
Rustle of Birds
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 110 x 170 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 66.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,001
![Painting, Multi Seen, Seen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1123806_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A green day 2, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1056420_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sunshine on My Mind, Katharina Husslein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1014948_1_grid.jpg)
Sunshine on My Mind
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$923
![Painting, Supplique, Danielle Lamaison](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228011_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Romaine 2 - Série figurative aquarelle et or, Danielle Lamaison](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228005_1_grid.jpg)
Romaine 2 - Série figurative aquarelle et or
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$231
![Painting, Urban IV, Ramiro Baptista](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227861_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Drisme-2, Aero 82](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227437_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Volar siempre te da libertad, Claudia Gallardo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2222298_1_grid.jpg)
Volar siempre te da libertad
Claudia Gallardo
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,823
![Painting, Time circles, Peter Keizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218166_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Singly, Peter Keizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218164_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Circulate, Peter Keizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218159_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wild and free, Maya Green](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217929_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Again and again, Peter Keizer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217681_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Poissons Rouges, Hayvon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211849_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blooming flowers, Emily Starck](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Entre ciel et mer, Chouette Nia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208093_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide 1, Tiny de Bruin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151387_1_grid.jpg)
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide 1
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$981
![Painting, The gaze, Nawel Aubert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2104563_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Kaki 2, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1729917_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition II, Jean Miotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1342335_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Let the Magic Happen, Candice Grant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319529_1_grid.jpg)
Let the Magic Happen
Candice Grant
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,100
![Painting, Loneliness, Reinaldo Chavez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258890_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metafora blu, Lorena Fonsato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229430_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'étreinte, Lourdes Ral](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229177_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tu diras que tu m'as oublié depuis lontemps, Lourdes Ral](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220804_1_grid.jpg)
Tu diras que tu m'as oublié depuis lontemps
Lourdes Ral
Painting - 27 x 35 x 4 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 1.6 inch
$289
![Print, Space Odyssey Three, Gameon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217760_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diamonds billard, Romain Dorez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217257_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Typo Construct three, Gameon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216541_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Typo Construct two, Gameon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Grand Perrier, Pierre-François Grimaldi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211232_1_grid.jpg)
Le Grand Perrier
Pierre-François Grimaldi
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$10,966
![Painting, La Bonne Coupe, Pierre-François Grimaldi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211223_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 22 Heures, Pierre-François Grimaldi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211221_1_grid.jpg)
22 Heures
Pierre-François Grimaldi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 6 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch
$10,966
![Painting, Drips 26, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210202_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La rencontre, Raimundo Bida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209639_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Illusion, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207807_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Life is a joyful ride, Barbara Piller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1754727_1_grid.jpg)
Life is a joyful ride
Barbara Piller
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$693
![Painting, Microcosmes 16, Javier Ramirez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1511310_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fond noir noeud rouge, Joël Kermarrec](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1472907_1_grid.jpg)
Fond noir noeud rouge
Joël Kermarrec
Painting - 82 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,078
![Painting, Yakob stairway, Aldobrandeschi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2234172_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Night, Aldobrandeschi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2234140_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Crystal, Aldobrandeschi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2234120_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Forest, Aldobrandeschi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2234105_1_grid.jpg)
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?