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Banc de poissons #11
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$671
Bingo!!!!! (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,585
My tomorrow depends on me (light peach sunrise sea)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,423
Baltic_Ice_Kakumaee_002
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 90 x 72 x 1.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 28.3 x 0.6 inch
$2,013
Rosette from here
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,577
My Heart is Dancing
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 105 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
Love is all we need
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
$1,454
Circle of the universe
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
My Kid Just Ruined My Basquiat (graf) on canvas
Ziegler T
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Composition Bleue, gravure originale abstraite
Alain Clément
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.05 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
Johnny Hallyday
Alexandre Petrus
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,006
Feel the day calling you
Barbara Piller
Painting - 70 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$976
Retour vers le passé
Olivier Ebel
Painting - 35 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,460 $2,214
Flowers of hope
Tetiana Adamovich
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,342
Chrysanthemum Cascade
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
La ceuillette d´orange
Mara Toledo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
Composition No. 413
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 71 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28 x 1.2 inch
$1,789
Time flows with holy heptagon_170323
Soo Youn Kim
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,621
Vive les cooleurs (2)
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,230 $861
Chroniques d'Automne
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,342
Enlightenment,
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 133.4 x 133.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 52.5 x 52.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,520
Dues noies assegudes i gran flor
Jordi Traperho
Painting - 61 x 50 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 inch
$1,062
It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,236
Untitled
JonOne
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$6,933
La Damier
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 144 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,697 $4,415
Asia lithographie originale, édition limitée
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,006
Ptosperity. oil painting
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$951
Fille aux macarons bleius
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 190.5 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 75 x 35 x 2 inch
$1,614
Beside you in time
Isabelle Rivest
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,485
Generaciones
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,117
Islands of material
Gergana Tabakova
Design - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Design - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,096
Incontro II
Ivana Urso
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$671 $570
To Dye or Not To Die. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
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?