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![Painting, La Closerie, Gérard Stricher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rêve Poupre et D'or, Gérard Stricher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227640_1_grid.jpg)
Rêve Poupre et D'or
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 130 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$24,701
![Painting, Hommage à l'Ukraine, Gérard Stricher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227638_1_grid.jpg)
Hommage à l'Ukraine
Gérard Stricher
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$21,254
![Painting, Ibiza, Sandrine Hartmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219294_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chic, Sandrine Hartmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219293_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Instant d'Espoir, Sandrine Hartmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219284_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Instant, Sandrine Hartmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219283_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love street (a tribute to Banksy), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218594_1_grid.jpg)
Love street (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$171
![Painting, Montagna liquida, Antonino Puliafico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213512_1_grid.jpg)
Montagna liquida
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$517
![Painting, Dorset Sunrise, Brian Bartlett](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189271_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition No. 457, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173856_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 457
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 86 x 137 x 3 cm Painting - 33.9 x 53.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,723
![Painting, Composition No. 456, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173855_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 456
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 86 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 33.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,838
![Painting, Composition No.418, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151394_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition No.417, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151390_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No.417
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 83 x 94 x 3 cm Painting - 32.7 x 37 x 1.2 inch
$1,264
![Painting, Composition No. 440, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141691_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 440
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 112 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 44.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,264
![Painting, Composition 438, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126733_1_grid.jpg)
Composition 438
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 33.1 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,838
![Painting, Composition no. 435, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126544_1_grid.jpg)
Composition no. 435
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 36 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 14.2 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,183
![Print, The Block 01, Angelica Tcherassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1571100_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Utopia, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1293333_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 314, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1293330_1_grid.jpg)
Composition 314
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$1,723
![Painting, Composition 307, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1293321_1_grid.jpg)
Composition 307
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 152 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$2,068
![Print, Visual Healing 17, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1238676_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Multi Seen, Seen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1079427_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Jorge Valdivia Araníbar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2233341_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled
Jorge Valdivia Araníbar
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$765
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Jorge Valdivia Araníbar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2233340_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled
Jorge Valdivia Araníbar
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$765
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Jorge Valdivia Araníbar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2233336_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled
Jorge Valdivia Araníbar
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$765
![Painting, Estérel - Paysage massif montagneux volcanique onirique, Jean-Marc Lemasson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231875_1_grid.jpg)
Estérel - Paysage massif montagneux volcanique onirique
Jean-Marc Lemasson
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$391
![Painting, A La Cool Chic Chas, Chanoir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230611_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Fondation, Héloïse Colloc'h](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230527_1_grid.jpg)
Fondation
Héloïse Colloc'h
Fine Art Drawings - 49.7 x 32.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.6 x 12.7 x 0 inch
$574
![Fine Art Drawings, La vague, Héloïse Colloc'h](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230526_1_grid.jpg)
La vague
Héloïse Colloc'h
Fine Art Drawings - 32.6 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$689
![Painting, New York, peinture sur Dibbon, Tony Soulié](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229661_1_grid.jpg)
New York, peinture sur Dibbon
Tony Soulié
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,170
![Painting, 24 heures du Mans bien dans la course, Sophie Petetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228470_1_grid.jpg)
24 heures du Mans bien dans la course
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,718
![Painting, Feline Connection, Sargis Zaqaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228394_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, At the beach, Lidija Karsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220433_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dawn, Astor Salcedo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les paradis perdus #9, Haude Bernabé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219003_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les paradis perdus #10, Haude Bernabé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218998_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 11 – Pi 78-7 barres bleu céanothe – Tirage photographique argentique, Philippe Leveau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216386_1_grid.jpg)
11 – Pi 78-7 barres bleu céanothe – Tirage photographique argentique
Philippe Leveau
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
![Photography, 3 – Pi 55 concentrique vert coquelicot – Tirage photographique argentique, Philippe Leveau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216378_1_grid.jpg)
3 – Pi 55 concentrique vert coquelicot – Tirage photographique argentique
Philippe Leveau
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
![Photography, 2 – Pi 55 concentrique vert céréales – Tirage photographique argentique, Philippe Leveau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216377_1_grid.jpg)
2 – Pi 55 concentrique vert céréales – Tirage photographique argentique
Philippe Leveau
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXVI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215929_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXVI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215926_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215920_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXVI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215917_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXVI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215895_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Golden Pears, Stepan Ohanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214433_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIX, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213865_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIX
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIX, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213858_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIX
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLVI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213816_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLVI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 1.6 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLVII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213815_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLVII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / L, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213812_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / L
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213810_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213809_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213807_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213806_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLIV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213805_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XLIV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XL, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213804_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XL
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXVIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213803_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXVIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213799_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213734_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213728_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XXXIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$517
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / IV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213725_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / IV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / VI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213724_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / VI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / IX, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213722_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / IX
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / X, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213721_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / X
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XI, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213720_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XI
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213719_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XVII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213713_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XVII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XVIII, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213712_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XVIII
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$368
![Painting, Triptych Summer II, Caroline Vis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213685_1_grid.jpg)
Triptych Summer II
Caroline Vis
Painting - 160 x 270 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 106.3 x 0.8 inch
$16,659
![Painting, Nationality XL, Caroline Vis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213273_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Arise XXL, Caroline Vis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212937_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Phenomenal Black White XXL, Caroline Vis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212914_1_grid.jpg)
Phenomenal Black White XXL
Caroline Vis
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,659
![Painting, A big river, Andrei Sitsko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211868_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, At Dusk, Nick Vivian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171434_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We All Love a Sunset, Nick Vivian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171106_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Happy gypsy dance 33, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150559_1_grid.jpg)
Happy gypsy dance 33
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,379
![Painting, 20 Novembre 2023, Raymond Attanasio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1948671_1_grid.jpg)
20 Novembre 2023
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,436
![Painting, 28 mai 2022, Raymond Attanasio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1502634_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 28 avril 2022, Raymond Attanasio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1460943_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Humidifier, Lu Ma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230864_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Héloïse Colloc'h](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230554_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Héloïse Colloc'h
Fine Art Drawings - 38.6 x 34 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.2 x 13.4 x 0 inch
$402
![Painting, Les nageurs, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229143_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un tableau ne vit que ..., Mijo 13](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217333_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Harmonious Geometry, Gameon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216542_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Baie de Somme 4, Nadine de Lespinats](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215878_1_grid.jpg)
Baie de Somme 4
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$287
![Painting, Baie de Somme 2, Nadine de Lespinats](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215876_1_grid.jpg)
Baie de Somme 2
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$287
![Painting, Baie de Somme 1, Nadine de Lespinats](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215849_1_grid.jpg)
Baie de Somme 1
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$287
![Photography, Reza - Format XS, Arnaud Baumann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212488_1_grid.jpg)
Reza - Format XS
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$287
![Painting, Let us hold each other, Barbara Piller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196207_1_grid.jpg)
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,149
![Painting, Psicodelia, Enrique Pichardo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140420_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, City Rumors #10 - City Rumors Series, Anna Levesh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1452450_1_grid.jpg)
City Rumors #10 - City Rumors Series
Anna Levesh
Photography - 75 x 100 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$1,597
![Painting, My little river 75, Pol Ledent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2242854_1_grid.jpg)
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?