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Sunset in a pea field
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,795
Spring Dance - very large floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,114
Le parfum des mimosas en fleurs… (Souvenirs du sud)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 60 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Ethereal Stillness II - landscape format large floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,516
December Sky: Blooms in Silence - floral very large art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,717
Floral Minuet in Pastel Blue - colorful very large painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,617
Green FLOWers - extra large floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,416
Childhood dreams-63
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Childhood dreams-62
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Bienveillante espérance
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$815
Lost in the Machine
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,360
Distracted
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,511
Brainstorm
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,360
Follow the Money
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,511
Abstract Landscape #4
Linda Bankerd
Painting - 76.2 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,330
Rampant horse on the sea - Italian painting & frame
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$726
In the calmness of the nature
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$502
Maybe Baby
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 92 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,479
Enjoy Today, While It’s Here
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,121
Sister, do you remember sea?
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,563
Look at this beauty, honey
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Still life with cherries
Valeri Tsvetkov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,730
Textil urbano- Paisaje fuego interior. De la serie Geschichte
Verónica Sanes
Painting - 80 x 120 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,150
Luminous Transitions
Fintan Whelan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$8,037
Inteligencia Artificial: robots
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,233
Tragedia en Niza - 1927
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,233
Habitante siniestro de la noche
Iñaki Oreja
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,898
Natural Flow Series n12
Rosario Briones
Painting - 99.8 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.3 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
La tête dans un pull en marche arrière
Nep-
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,237
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?