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We contain multitudes
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$6,349
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Painting - 140 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$6,349
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,079
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,951
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,951
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,167
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,348
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,228
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,006
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,539
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,731
Painting - 76 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,789
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,731
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,657
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,270
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,502
Painting - 204 x 340 x 2 cm Painting - 80.3 x 133.9 x 0.8 inch
$14,003
Painting - 215 x 220 x 2 cm Painting - 84.6 x 86.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,547
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$650
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,385
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,385
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,897
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
$1,154
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$750
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,270
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$600
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$670
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,809
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$1,212
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,200
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 2 inch
$750
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$990
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$808
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$693
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$749
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$693
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."
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