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Poupette et son éventail
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 15 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
Le petit vin blanc
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 15 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
Je joue du piano debout
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 15 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
Irrésistible
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$324
Madame est servie
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 19 x 19 x 1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.4 inch
$313
Prati colorati
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
Untitled n°602 Abstract October 19 with Black
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$5,257
L'abri légendaire
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$761
La reine paisible
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$761
Wanna have some fun?
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,774
Gypsy Skirt Rounded in Amsterdam 2
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,118
Cry for the sun over the world
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,159
Les coquelicots
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Print - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,409
Marine abstraite 04-2022-05
Fred Boutet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$447
Feu d'artifice
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 48 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$626
Ascoltando Il Sole II / Listening to the sun II
Mattia Novello
Painting - 228.6 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 90 x 45 x 2 inch
$15,000
Io di notte io di giorno
Mattia Novello
Painting - 279.4 x 416.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 110 x 164 x 2 inch
$17,000
Red Candle In The Dark
Roanne .
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,801
Dysfunctional Yet Romantic
Roanne .
Painting - 51.8 x 51.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20.4 x 20.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,801
Le gardien de l'espoir
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$811
Drink up some Hard Cocktails
Roanne .
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,980
Io su poltrona pensando al lui / Me on an armchair thinking about him
Mattia Novello
Painting - 160 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 45 x 1 inch
$8,500
WILD KONG 80 TAG mat
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 65 x 33 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 25.6 x 13 inch
$33,442
Universe of colors
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,142
Une histoire
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 75 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$503
Red optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,013
Drive To Its Edge - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$855
Abstract composition
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Untitled abstract
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Silver abstract
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$8,528
PETIT SOUVENIR D'ORIENT
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$839
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?