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Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$411
Petit Paysage 2
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$268
C'est étonnant, tu crois pas
Jéko
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,366
The Wind isn't blowing in Petrified Forest (The Painted Desert)
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 14 x 45.7 x 0.6 cm Painting - 5.5 x 18 x 0.25 inch
$260
Daydreaming In The Southwest
Robert Tillberg
Painting - 228.6 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 90 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$9,500
Soul Searching
Robert Tillberg
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 4.3 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 1.7 inch
$12,200
N°2 - Composition graphique, art brut coloré sur palette bois
Alain Ciavaldini
Painting - 110 x 46 x 3.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 18.1 x 1.4 inch
$1,253
N°4 - Composition graphique, art brut coloré sur palette bois
Alain Ciavaldini
Painting - 100 x 58 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 22.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,253
N°5 - Composition graphique, art brut coloré sur palette bois
Alain Ciavaldini
Painting - 54 x 81 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 x 1.4 inch
$928
Sierra 7 colores
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,993
Summer red apples and red flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$706
Mexico City Dust and Other Short Stories 131
RK Polak
Painting - 196.1 x 169.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 77.2 x 66.9 x 2 inch
$12,442
Eve 03, Painting, Oil on Canvas
RK Polak
Painting - 181.1 x 151.9 x 3 cm Painting - 71.3 x 59.8 x 1.2 inch
$9,167
J+ suivre sa route
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,505
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
A confident smile
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,050
I Can’t Tell If I’m Experiencing Heartbreak, Or I Just Think That I’m Experiencing Heartbreak / Wisteria Vine
Simon Findlay
Painting - 200 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,505
Femme au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 29 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$376
Gold abstract painting #0014 (diptych)
Olena Topliss
Painting - 27.9 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 11 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$602
Mémoire - Série Pop colorée
Selda Soyut dit Selda
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$712
The dreams we make come true (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,050
Poissons multicolores
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$216
Dream Blossoms I floral impasto modern painting on canvas
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$376
Grey Morning floral impasto modern painting on canvas
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$342
Enthusiasm (el entusiasmo)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,050
Luxe aquatique (avec de la feuille d'or véritable 24 carats)
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
$1,549
Environnement chaleureux
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$911
The Wanderer (el andariego)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,050
Fleurs bleues des champs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$911
The more we share, the more we have
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$660
Fleurs rouges et jaunes
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 150 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,480
Histoire d'entrechats
Victorine Follana
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,480
The Flying Sailors of St Ives
Ellie Hesse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,324
Vista Ruscello
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,619
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,699
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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?