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L'arbre au sommet
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,220
On avance malgré ce ciel lourd
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,696
Plage Magique
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,482
French Tannin Festif
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 30 x 17 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch
$509
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,356
L'air et le crépuscule
Marion Sagon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$452
Bleu minéral - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,481
Bleu écriture - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,481
Visage d'animal
Zafi
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 51 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,809
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$385
Indian chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,580
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,357
My flowers
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
Abstract Fantasy
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,036
Marée basse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,333
Aristoloche - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$990
Artemisia - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$990
Rhus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,838
Phlomis - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,838
Liriodendron - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,838
Mystery of New World
Anna Selina
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,036
The darkest time before the sunrise
Anna Selina
Painting - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,809
Arbre au bord de la seine
Linda Clerget
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,131
Valse de printemps - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,018
La danse du papillon - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,018
Papillons d'eau - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,391
Papillons exotiques - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,391
Jeux d'Eole - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$939
Paysage en bleu vert et rouge
Cécile Girard
Painting - 39 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,149 $1,934
Paysage en bleu vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 29 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,149 $1,934
Graff n°1400
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$679
Rochers réfléchissants
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Le sentier vers le ciel
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,149
Les nymphéas jaunes
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,149
Le viel homme et la mer - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,126
Je pleure mes larmes intérieures - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,126
Le voyage de E.T - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,126
La forme de l'eau - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,126
Eclats d'amour - Abstraction
Marie-Louise Cervantes
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,555
Champ de lumière - Abstraction
Marie-Louise Cervantes
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,555
View from the outside. Eyes
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,144
Dawn, Phoenix Bird
Helena Jungermann
Painting - 60 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,065
Les couleurs de la France
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 116 x 96 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 37.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
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?