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![Print, #2 - Colorful colibri, Eric Lespinasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213975_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beba, Well Rimo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1947168_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Melt 1, Hoel Gwern](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1939332_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4, Michèle Laurence Prévost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162153_1_grid.jpg)
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,298
![Painting, My Microcosm 4, Winnie Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1363110_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golfeuse M, Joelle De Lacanau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2219430_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eye see you 1/3, Stephanie Larène](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171481_1_grid.jpg)
Eye see you 1/3
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 78 x 106 x 1 cm Painting - 30.7 x 41.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,264
![Painting, Fate does not ask you, Jacqueline Dey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1879848_1_grid.jpg)
Fate does not ask you
Jacqueline Dey
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$695
![Painting, Léopold, Christine Barrès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1451304_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue x3, Willy B](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1313145_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Let'me jump in your game #3, Paulo Canilhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1149495_1_grid.jpg)
Let'me jump in your game #3
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,068
![Painting, Emotional color field 2, Kyong Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1025889_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Textil urbano. De la serie Geschichte, Verónica Sanes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179232_1_grid.jpg)
Textil urbano. De la serie Geschichte
Verónica Sanes
Painting - 65 x 105 cm Painting - 25.6 x 41.3 inch
$919
![Painting, The Nature of Things III, Gordon Carmichael](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1489179_1_grid.jpg)
The Nature of Things III
Gordon Carmichael
Painting - 49.5 x 41 cm Painting - 19.5 x 16.1 inch
$1,379
![Painting, Waiting here 1010, Cédric Bouteiller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128648_1_grid.jpg)
Waiting here 1010
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,170
![Painting, Le jardin d'Eden, Anne-Marie Torrisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2236504_1_grid.jpg)
Le jardin d'Eden
Anne-Marie Torrisi
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,319
![Photography, La délicate, Joanna Mouton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2233346_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Là-bas, Yannick Bernard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178623_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Crossing Horizons, Melanie Graham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1876152_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ronds dans l'eau, Rony](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1421757_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Deforming, Jos Luchipe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1328997_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue Iris, Yoojin Shin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1100133_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fragments d'émotion #6, Bonus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1961820_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Scarpette rosse due, Ugo Nespolo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803921_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chiffonnade embrassée, Véro Mazurek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544499_1_grid.jpg)
Chiffonnade embrassée
Véro Mazurek
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,103
![Painting, Dive in Pi, VeraD](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1514211_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Taciturne mais doux, M. Cohen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1412790_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golden blue, Tamar Mindia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/967215_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les poissons pois, Laurence Leccia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1743264_1_grid.jpg)
Les poissons pois
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,034
![Painting, Abstract n° 1146, Patrick Salamone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1330017_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n° 1146
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,757
![Painting, Spring in Notting Hill, Valerie Le Meur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1022619_1_grid.jpg)
Spring in Notting Hill
Valerie Le Meur
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,068
![Painting, Big Chief, Barthélémy Grossmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227787_1_grid.jpg)
Big Chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$14,711
![Painting, Sans titre, Louttre B](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204629_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Big B'Oom, RicO](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180501_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Hugo Isaac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177443_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Azurite, Alice-Anne Augustin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932396_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nina Hagen, 2Kyff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173550_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bo kaap, Brigitte Millet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165734_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dreaming No.1, Bea Garding Schubert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830870_1_grid.jpg)
Dreaming No.1
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 149.9 x 119.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$4,100
![Print, Voyage astral, Yoël Benharrouche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1523346_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Collectif zombie, Barbara d'Antuono](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1505445_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Zero to Infinito, Rei Dei](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344102_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Transition N4, Mattia Vezzoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1342761_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In Honour Of God - The Creator 8, Soumitra Bhattacharya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1293792_1_grid.jpg)
In Honour Of God - The Creator 8
Soumitra Bhattacharya
Painting - 213 x 137 x 5 cm Painting - 83.9 x 53.9 x 2 inch
$4,423
![Painting, L'automne, Fan Lin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1118307_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstrait, Muriel Matt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123502_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fée, Zwy Milshtein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1571001_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metaphorical speech 03, Ayoung JO](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1483410_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Trouble N1, Jade Mouge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1370688_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Beyond the Visible, Yaacov Agam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/876879_1_grid.jpg)
Beyond the Visible
Yaacov Agam
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 27.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 11 inch
$2,000
![Painting, Un songe, recto-verso, Cyril Destrade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2229193_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Spacecolour 4, Udo Zembok](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732446_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La lecture, Pierre-Marie Brisson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1435584_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flores de campana, Manuel Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231714_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pink Butterfly, Marta Zawadzka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181874_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre IV, Raymond Attanasio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1477767_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Flammarion. Photograph intervened by the artists., Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/622905_1_grid.jpg)
Flammarion. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,080
![Painting, Soirée jaune 2, Juliette June](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589310_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'Infante Marie Marguerite, Jules Milhau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1453086_1_grid.jpg)
L'Infante Marie Marguerite
Jules Milhau
Painting - 200 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$18,382
![Painting, The Journey 001, Angelica Tcherassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153331_1_grid.jpg)
The Journey 001
Angelica Tcherassi
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,400
![Print, Straec #39, Luuk de Haan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1337286_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Morning (Sky and Sea), Giuseppe Zumbolo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1315677_1_grid.jpg)
Morning (Sky and Sea)
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,723
![Painting, Impasse, Sébastien Fery-Voignier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1248081_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bouquet de Fleurs, Moïse Kisling](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1208727_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Libre !, Odile Pinto-Corbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227425_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beside you in time, Isabelle Rivest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209963_1_grid.jpg)
Beside you in time
Isabelle Rivest
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,485
![Photography, Others, Héléna Palazzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202578_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Plane crash landscape 2, Jeff Engberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191772_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Pays minier, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1446975_1_grid.jpg)
Pays minier
Pierre Alechinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 97.5 x 63 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.4 x 24.8 inch
$36,764
![Painting, Piece of Cake, Jean-Marc Calvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171076_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Jazz Cat, Simon Linardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468803_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Organic Flow, Humanfuel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142664_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Julien Lebbihi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197721_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Love Snoopy, Adriano Cuencas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1910370_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dervish, Karin Goeppert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842648_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Est-ce que l’art a le pouvoir de changer les sentiments ?, Audrey Faivre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1474158_1_grid.jpg)
Est-ce que l’art a le pouvoir de changer les sentiments ?
Audrey Faivre
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,081
![Painting, Jardin d'Eden, Artize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1216224_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, It's Getting Kind of Hectic, Emma Harrison](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190749_1_grid.jpg)
It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,298 $2,068
![Painting, Empire, Winnie Seifert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175479_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Awelye, Abie Loy Kemarre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1179318_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, En attendant l'appel, Hico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154911_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, RB M25 Edition, Ronan and Erwan Bouroulec](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134546_1_grid.jpg)
RB M25 Edition
Ronan and Erwan Bouroulec
Print - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,666
![Painting, La déesse de la mer, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1982277_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, I think the cops traced it back to grimsby. (6), Vianca Reinig](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467774_1_grid.jpg)
I think the cops traced it back to grimsby. (6)
Vianca Reinig
Photography - 150 x 120 cm Photography - 59.1 x 47.2 inch
$4,596
![Painting, Golden Spring, Sebnem Ceylan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1316037_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Samhain, Clémence Dupuch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145805_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, We are the same, Shuixin Xu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2091054_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oru switch I, Stoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1950498_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chaos, Wayne Floyd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1355673_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The spinning twins, Lord Wilmore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1291728_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Stone Series 1, GK Austin II](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1021989_1_grid.jpg)
Stone Series 1
GK Austin II
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,800
![Painting, Vignoble, Petar Kras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1439340_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, CHR 53 90 BR Pay Flo, Jacques Le Brusq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267047_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?