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Le chagrin
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 82 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,714 $2,171
Informal Painting
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 96 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 37.8 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,583
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,583
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 91 x 82 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 32.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,809
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,923
Blue and Yellow Abstract Composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,923
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,036
Untitled composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
Abstract Composition
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 58 x 58 x 3 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
Strength your aura
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 70 x 2 inch
$1,300
Les arbres du bonheur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,149
A Collision of Energy
Candice Grant
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$480
Douceur matinale en bord de mer
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$995
Red parties vertical
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$225
Marine abstraite 2023-46
Fred Boutet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$735
Marine Abstraite 2022-24
Fred Boutet
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$961
Left (paper) pieces : an endless flow
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 77.4 x 26.7 x 1 cm Painting - 30.5 x 10.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,640
Fête de la musique
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,662
Le château des ombres - Les Dieux aussi…
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,202
Suisse: Printemps
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,244
Suisse : Neige d'Automne
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,923
Gaze Into The Lake 02
Angelica Tcherassi
Print - 149.9 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 59 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Chocolate Factory & Crazy Sunset
Marion Sagon
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$204
Dame au Oursins
Charlotte Yonga
Photography - 25 x 20 x 0.2 cm Photography - 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$905
Untitled Abstract
George Pinder
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$1,676
Life in Colors 72
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 60 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,018 $712
Place Within Reach 23
Petr Strnad
Painting - 70.2 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$509
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?