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Natural Flow Series n13. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 68.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
My African remix
Haude Bernabé
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 inch
$2,191
Noname 70.50 #C249
Stéphane Rime
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$161
Fragmentation
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$657
Dream a little... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$865
Remember When You Put the Stars into My Eyes
Joana Choumali
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$25,364
Mouvements (Movements)
Hyacinthe Ouattara
Painting - 130.5 x 80 cm Painting - 51.4 x 31.5 inch
$5,880
Le chat et le papillon
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,228
Soirée dans un village au sud
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 42 x 62 cm Painting - 16.5 x 24.4 inch
$1,038
Generaciones
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,164
131 The Guardians of the Light
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 131 x 96 x 3 cm Painting - 51.6 x 37.8 x 1.2 inch
$27,094
All Directions point that Way
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,303
Floating over pink #2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
The road less traveled
Sara McKenzie
Painting - 76 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$2,652
A New Life 01
Angelica Tcherassi
Print - 149.9 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 59 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500 $1,350
Obscured by clouds
Nathanaël MIKLES
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 6.9 x 0 inch
$461
Place du Molard et son Marché aux Fleurs à Genève
Kazimier Rubolowski
Painting - 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,287
Give me the Green Light
Noir Visualart
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$380 $342
L’encre des mots clés
Cécile Jaunet
Painting - 228 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 89.8 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,071
Le dégel des sentiments
Sylvie Bruneau
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,614
Totem Series I
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,709
Autoportrait du jour
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,960
Left (paper) pieces : unknown world
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 44.7 x 27 x 1 cm Painting - 17.6 x 10.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,856
Summer in Italy, Cinque Terre
Ellie Hesse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,423 $3,081
Eve of destruction - grande - 3
LN Le Cheviller
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$2,179
Tokyo by night, peinture sur Dibbon
Tony Soulié
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,188
10 – Pi 78-6 barres vert herbe – Tirage photographique argentique
Philippe Leveau
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
Plus près de mon étoile - Série pop colorée
Selda Soyut dit Selda
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$721
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?