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Les tours
Gyslaine Pachet-Micheneau
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,568
La madone
Alexandre Petrus
Painting - 92 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,845 $1,660
Serpentine bleue
Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga
Sculpture - 78 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$1,384
Beauty of Colors
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,152
Baltic_Ice_Kakumaee_002
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 90 x 72 x 1.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 28.3 x 0.6 inch
$2,075
La fille de Dioné et de Zeus
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,151
The green eye
Tatiana Harizanova
Painting - 125 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,845
Banc de poissons #12
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$749
Trame
Héloïse Colloc'h
Fine Art Drawings - 32.2 x 49.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.7 x 19.6 x 0 inch
$576
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
$4,842
Les Piliers
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,937
Womans world?
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.02 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,153
Morning near the sea
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,248
Ice Cream Richie
Alec Monopoly
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$2,882
Le coeur battant, je flotte
Sophie André
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$922
Reverie au Coeur de L'ete
Christiane Hess
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,729
Abstrait N 18 Géométrie Contemporaine
Thomas Danel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,268
Ornamental Patterns
Hasmik Mamikonyan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$750
Etonnants voyageurs 5
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
Sold
Abstraction Expression Three
Robert Lynn
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,800
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
$1,713
Storm Approaching IX - Diptych
Mark Kellett
Print - 30.5 x 63.5 x 1.3 cm Print - 12 x 25 x 0.5 inch
$1,550
Vert everglades - Paysage de floride entre terre et mer
Thierry Nauleau
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,660
Somnium No. 10, Series XIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$8,647
Blue abstract painting SL433
Radek Smach
Painting - 110 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,870
Voyages en Arcadie N°122
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,499
Préxialia
Pierre Promelle Création
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Dreamed Wild Shelter
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,268
Censored by nature
The Catman
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.4 inch
$3,805
The awakened Soul
Selene Art
Painting - 79.8 x 159.8 x 2 cm Painting - 31.4 x 62.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,426
From the palette
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 30 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,061
Echo Of Petals
Rebecca Klementovich
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
$1,050
Paris 2024 Jeux olympique
Jean-Charles Gautier
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,459
N°1 - Composition graphique, art brut coloré sur palette bois
Alain Ciavaldini
Painting - 104 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 40.9 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$945
Hidden face this woman
Daniel Castan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,113
To light up
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,306
Dans tes bras d'ange
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,444 $2,200
Battre le cœur dans nos idées folles
Jazzu
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,998
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?