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Colgate
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 39.9 x 99.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.3 x 0.6 inch
$1,200
Le souffle intense
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,228
Les Vénitiennes
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Quand il faut y aller, il faut y aller
Sange
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,094
Abstract n°387
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,358
Abstract n°386
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,358
Abstract n°150
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,358
Abstract n°34
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,572
Abstract n°33
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,572
Abstract Red Black 2
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,353
Abstract n°451
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,572
Abstract n°449
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,572
Abstract n°279
Harry James Moody
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$5,358
Qu'avez vous fait de mon cher enfant ?
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche
Painting - 19 x 15.5 x 1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 6.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,009
The magic of the evening
Iryna Bondar
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$558
Dreaming Giorgio De Chirico
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Roses in a blue vase
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 62 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$502
Le cœur de l'Océan
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,630
Explosion de couleurs - On the move 1
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,674
Valley of the Echoes
Fintan Whelan
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,916
Les froissements de l'eau
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$435
Party Happening People
Niki Stearman
Painting - 127 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 inch
$10,030
Sweet Shades of Memory XXX
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$6,400
Conversation with the devil
Noah Borger
Painting - 64 x 78 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 30.7 x 0.1 inch
$447
Upstairs & Downstairs
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 92 x 31 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 12.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,242
The Good Neighbour
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,912
Never a Dull Moment
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,950
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?