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Alessandro Michele
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 40.6 x 29.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16 x 11.75 x 1 inch
$1,200
"Jeux de balles" abstrait acrylique sable poudre de marbre bristol marouflé sur bois 80x80cm 2009
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,279
Red parties vertical
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$231
Passionnément
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 123 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 48.4 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$7,560 $7,030
"Vents d'hiver" 120x120cm abstrait acrylique collage poudre de marbre châssis lin 2013
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,791
Campagna Toscana
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$698
Cespuglio riflesso
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,047
Giochi di Sabbia
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$756
Frutti di rovo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,163
Mondello Stabilimento
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,396
Porto Mondello
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,047
Trasparenze Con Barca
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$814
Sbuffo di giallo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$698
Al Mercato delle spezie
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$2,210
Fiori nel campo
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 70 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,303
"Scène de rue" figuratif acrylique châssis lin 100x120cm encadré 1985
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,140
La forêt intérieure
Clémence Dupuch
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,861 $1,675
Rouge terre de sienne et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$930
Rouge écarlate et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$930
Carré noir, bleu et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$930
Orange, rouge et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$930
De bruit et de fureur
Benoît Guérin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$802
Suspension XX (SG187)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$756
Geometrical Abstract Composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 33 x 48 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$698
The Magic Circle
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,326
1955 Village Au bord de l'eau By the water
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 50 x 59 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.2 inch
$2,268 $1,134
1957 Abstraction 2
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 63 x 48 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24.8 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,268 $1,134
Cap May NJ - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,058
L'Envol - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,186
1966 Paris blanc L'artiste peintre inspiré White Paris The Inspired painter
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,686 $843
Les nouveaux arrivants
Joel Giraud
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,419 $3,977
La pluja-Aigüa de disseny
María José Vela
Painting - 81 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,745
L'exterior habitat
María José Vela
Painting - 100 x 53.3 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 21 x 0.8 inch
$1,745
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Colors Painting for Sale
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?