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De chair et de sang
Carole Fontana
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,652
Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Dreaming)
Valentine Nakamarra White
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$288
Citta Samtana Diptych 295
James Verbicky
Print - 112 x 150 x 5 cm Print - 44.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$32,000
Super lucky Neonka, Happy version
Lalasaïdko
Print - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$450
Christian Bérard
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 200 x 400 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 157.5 x 1.2 inch
$37,470
Chez rose - 10
Nicolas Blin
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0.1 inch
$392
Tourbillon d'été
Jessie Raveleau
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,011
### Songe dans une nebuleuse rouge de patates célestes orangées...
Monsieur Térez
Painting - 130 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,767
Encres en Transparence N°6
Yann Crenn
Sculpture - 29 x 21 x 7 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 8.3 x 2.8 inch
$2,536
Assault and battery of the human anatomy
David Pinegar
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$9,973
Chimère dans un azur vert de patates cosmiques bleues... + cadre T'es vu, patate crue!
Monsieur Térez
Print - 54 x 54 cm Print - 21.3 x 21.3 inch
$1,038
Josette for Never ou l’erreur de jeunesse
Monsieur Térez
Sculpture - 59 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
$2,075
Aurelien
Kohlene Hendrickson
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$3,113 $2,957
Sérigraphie n°23 Sans titre
Gilbert Sabatier
Print - 53 x 41 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$231
Rêveries en fleurs
Glodi Kasindi Malumbe
Painting - 100 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$4,035
Les 82 lunes de Saturne
Maï Fougeront
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,038
Study for reclining
Jonathan Chapline
Painting - 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.87 cm Painting - 7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch
$16,500
Le soleil, de plus en plus fort, brille et change ma couleur de peau
Audrey Faivre
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$190
Caryatid II
Allison Harrell
Painting - 105.5 x 71.6 x 6.5 cm Painting - 41.5 x 28.2 x 2.6 inch
$8,820
Juliette
Salvador Ginard
Painting - 139 x 128 x 3 cm Painting - 54.7 x 50.4 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Streets of Bamako, Mali_4 (Small format)
Girma Berta
Photography - 76 x 53.7 x 5 cm Photography - 29.9 x 21.1 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Anima Angeli
Sabine Danzé
Fine Art Drawings - 95 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 37.4 x 31.5 inch
Price upon request
Combinaison sphérique sur fond vert
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 90 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,144
Peinture Janvier 2023-06
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 60 x 180 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 70.9 x 1.4 inch
$1,729
Sunshine on our mind
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,268
Peinture 08-2023-59
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$980
Peinture 02-2020-22
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$980
Peinture 12-2021-84
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 92 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
$749
Reason (clipping series - understand)
Kotaro Machiyama
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1 inch
$2,200
Le ciel bleu et des fleurs
David Jamin
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,842
Bingo!!!!! (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,727
Déterminisme de couleurs
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 140 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,729
Down there on a Visit
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$822 $739
Oxydation poétique
Daniela Lasc Herman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$1,937
Peace - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Impasto, Impression, Africa Woman
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 99.1 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,550
Stormtroopers colors
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 49 x 39 x 6 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15.4 x 2.4 inch
$1,384
J+ pluie de couleurs
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,960
A Hug From Afar
Sano Ve Billa
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$1,693
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?