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Pure Happiness II
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,019
Les 4 éléments n°1
Alice Maier
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$257 $245
L'Attente du Jour Prochain
Hugo Pondz
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$15,652
Surrounded by Friends
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,466
Direction Amponville !
Linda Clerget
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$894 $805
Magnolias pour toujours
Linda Clerget
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,006 $906
Variation en Orange et Bleu
Linda Clerget
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$894 $805
Dans les ruelles de Chablis
Linda Clerget
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$894 $805
Le vaisseau
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
Lenta Markevich
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$1,565
Mosaique Abstraite
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,207
Marine abstraite 2024-54
Fred Boutet
Painting - 98 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.6 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$1,230
Marine abstraite 2024-61
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$783
Marine abstraite 2024-60
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$783
Marine abstraite 2024-55
Fred Boutet
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$1,230
Orange tree
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,096 $899
Voyages en Arcadie N°147
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,453
Third flying Twenty-four
M.Chat
Painting - 54 x 65 x 1.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.6 inch
$6,149
Sugar Cane Alley
Sinden Collier
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,789
Stuck In A Loop (Again)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
Fleurs bleues des champs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$894
Anima Mundi Sacra
Frédéric Bourret
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,012
Expérience
Frédéric Bourret
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,789
Au bord de l'eau
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$671
Painting Flowers To Fight Off Anxiety (Dead Flowers In A Water Jug)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,460
Une vague de changement
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$84
Chrysanthemum Splendor
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
$4,696
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall painting
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,528
Style crayons 04.24
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 89 x 7 cm Painting - 11.4 x 35 x 2.8 inch
$1,565
Violon plaisir
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$313
The early spring garden
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,230
Wind dancing with spring flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,230
La cueillette
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$2,571
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?