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La Fille au Coq ou Belarus
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,777
Vendeur de bouées avec ballon de Barcelone
Rosario Heins
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,975
Présence et lévitation
Clara Crespin
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Patience, Thrill No.10
Deok Hee YUN
Painting - 53 x 34 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20.9 x 13.4 x 1 inch
$1,665
Colorsaje 11
Claudio Mella Castel
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Walk in the sky - blue pink geometry abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Couleur Majorelle III
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 49 x 0.15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,010
Instant Majorelle VI
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,109
Funny emoticons
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Evening Garden
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,400
Ohne Titel - aus der Serie: Und Abends blüht die Moldau
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,927
Urban Haring Tribute
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 46 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$337
Kringel Dichroic Neonorange Hellblau
Selçuk Dizlek
Sculpture - 58 x 55 x 6 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 21.7 x 2.4 inch
$5,049
In the radiance
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$3,366
Going over the ego
L'Atlas et Tanc
Painting - 86 x 70 x 8 cm Painting - 33.9 x 27.6 x 3.1 inch
$9,536
Kringel Neonpink / Blau III
Selçuk Dizlek
Sculpture - 65 x 62 x 6 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 24.4 x 2.4 inch
$5,497
Unity of opposites
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,590 $2,872
L'amour à l'eau de rose
Claude Gilli
Painting - 75 x 50 x 6 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
$13,463
Pollen of happiness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,739
Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
$6,058
Untitled 1984 (after Keith Haring)
Keith Haring
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$617
Ready to start again
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.3 inch
$1,099
Le marché du samedi matin
Perrine Vilmot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,468
Stillborn (reprise)
Nathanael Koffi
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,853
Guspirus in love
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.3 inch
$1,099
Petite soirée avec Koons et Gaga
Julien Calot
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,263
Birth (Maquette), The Sphere (Blue)
Paige Bradley
Sculpture - 50.8 x 12.7 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 20 x 5 x 8 inch
$9,450
Bright and Vivid Colors
Humans have always produced artwork containing vivid and intense colors. We can't help it! Their brightness evokes excitement and feelings of optimism. It grabs our attention, whilst their richness connates strong emotions and ideas. In fact, humans have a biological reason to pay attention to bright and vivid colors, as a survival mechanism to avoid the poisonous plants and dangerous animals that often had these same colors.
Throughout history, our affinity for these colors has been visible within art. For example, in Islamic Art, rich color palettes were often used for tilework and ceramics. Furthermore, though Roman and Greek marble sculptures are often thought of as white, they were in fact painted with bright colors. However, bright colors have not always been well-received: the popularisation of neo-classicism in western art scorned the use of bright colors, branding them as garish and “not of good taste". As such, the 18th and 19th centuries largely saw the decline in the use of these colors.
But this would not be for long, as with the rise of different artistic styles such as Fauvism, abstraction and pop art, bright colors came back into fashion. And thanks to the invention and mass production of synthetic pigments, they were easier than ever for artists to get their hands on.
Color theory is also a crucial concept for artists, who experiment with combinations of complementary and contrasting colors in order to convey certain tones and messages. The importance of color cannot be underestimated as it can completely change an artwork. For example, French painter Claude Monet liked to paint the same subject at different times of day and in different weather in order to explore the effects of different color palettes on the mood of his art.
Whatever color you feel like, Artsper will have the exact tone you're looking for in our selection of bright and vivid colored artworks.