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Temporal perception # 322
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Cosmic consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,939
Colourful consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,935
Aurora Australis: The southern lights
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,179
Free spirit no. 2
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$964
Free spirit no. 21
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,209
Cosmic blizzard
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Flowers in the rain
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
No matter how long the winter...
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
Psychedelic sky
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Birds of a feather II
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
$1,946
Volcanic pulse
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 55.9 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$1,210
Fresh Paint
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,683
Ciel rouge et mauve
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Emotion in motion
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 100 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,677
Droits de l'Homme
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 34 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 13.4 inch
$8,050
Snoopy - I Love My Job (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,795
Circle in Circle - Brown 50
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,564
Temporal Perception # 220 A
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$3,375
Bugs Bunny (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,795
Neon Pop Art Lines
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,117
Art Stories: Campbells
Nicolas Pichon
Painting - 165 x 15 x 5 cm Painting - 65 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,901
Jardin exotique N°1
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,124
Floral - Elixir series on paper III
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,711
Floral Elixir series on paper II
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,711
Floral Elixir series on paper I
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,711
Complimentary Connection
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,974
The path continues
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 118 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,065
Warm Red landscape
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,117
Instant de vie...
Roseline Al Oumami
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
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?