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A tiny village in winter
Pol Ledent
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$798
Still life wild flowers 5624
Pol Ledent
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$798
Secretos en el jardín. Rocafort
Antonio Camaró
Painting - 132 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 52 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$82,126
Sous la treille
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,373
Taylor Swift Sailing in Cannes
Janusz Kik
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$336
Taylor Swift's Visit to a Small Harbour (Taylor Swift en Visite au Petit Port)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$336
Taylor Swift Boat (Le Bateau de Taylor Swift)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$336
Softer Notes for Love
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,711
Lime Arc Over Pink Red
Simon Findlay
Painting - 175 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 68.9 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,281
A Break in Reality
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,053
A Burst of Gold
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,825
Cadmium Orange Hue
Julia Swaby
Painting - 81 x 113 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 44.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,663
The Creative Spirit
Julia Swaby
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,938
Heart over head
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,255
Blue Purple Pink Galaxy
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,255
Alice
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,167
Splash 56 - action painting on round canvass (1)
Mark Hellbusch
Painting - 140 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,954
Splash 58 - action painting on round canvass
Mark Hellbusch
Painting - 140 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,954
Proyeccion 2
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 42 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$379 $341
Pink blooming. Rhododendron.
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$399
Vive les fleurs et les fleurs
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$536
Red field of innocence
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$559
Tant qu'il aura des fleurs
David Jamin
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$970
Équilibre instable
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
French riviera
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,167
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre 2 et vert d'eau 2
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
Combinaison shérique cristal 2 sur fond blanc
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
Combinaison shérique Cristal 1 sur fond blanc
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,597
Crépuscule sur le Golfe du Morbihan
Arnaud Dromigny
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$553
L'oiseau rouge - série animaux
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$285
The way to the top
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,844
Les jours se sont enfuis
Nicolas Ruelle
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$855
La vie en couleur II
Maude Ovize
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,258
Expressive flower field
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,395
Cropped Iris Diptych (1)
Kathleen Ney
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.3 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.5 inch
$2,400
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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?