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Paysage abstrait III
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,110
La ventana
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$832
Paseo victori
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$832
Dispersion de magenta
Scott Naismith
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$10,545
Spectrum sunrise
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$17,760
Couleur de manifestation
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$10,545
Esprit insulaire
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$17,760
Bébé requin se marre - série animaux marins fantaisistes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,043
Jaune c'est jaune
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 24 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch
$322
Sweet Shades of Memory XXIV
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,210
Sweet Shades of Memory XXIX
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,800
Turquoise Composition
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,150
New Year's Circle
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$4,050
Boîte de Petri #16
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$721
Soft abstraction X
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$665 $599
Red-haired girl
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,498
Party Happening People
Niki Stearman
Painting - 127 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 inch
$10,030
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
Like Tomorrow Never Comes
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,300
Like-Minded Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$5,700
Whatever, Whenever
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$13,000
Taming the Dragon
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Running for the Border
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$6,300
Thinking Out Loud Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$5,250
After a winter storm
Nestor Toro
Painting - 119.4 x 94 x 1.3 cm Painting - 47 x 37 x 0.5 inch
$8,530
Celeste spectra (amethysts reflections) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$20,000
Walking in my sleep
Nestor Toro
Painting - 96.5 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Somewhere in Between (Yellow and Gold)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 180.3 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 71 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$21,750
Reflection of colors 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 132.1 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 52 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$12,000
Reflection of colors 6
Nestor Toro
Painting - 162.6 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 64 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Caribbean ocean waters
Nestor Toro
Painting - 147.3 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 58 x 43 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Colorful display of affection 1 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$15,000
Purple Display of Affection (Blue and Silver) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$20,000
Colorful display of affection 2 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Tangled Up In Blue
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$10,000
Drizzles and Rust
Nestor Toro
Painting - 111.8 x 119.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 44 x 47 x 0.7 inch
$5,530
One crazy dream (Colorful panorama)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 86.4 x 68.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 27 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
Volcanic lightning (Earth formations)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 38 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Frozen carnival (Water flow)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 188 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 74 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
Lavender shimmer (Summer garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,410
Under the northern lights
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,410
An instant paradise
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
An instant paradise,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Endless secret night,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,470
An instant paradise 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Deep Blue Paradise
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$5,030
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An Angel Passes By
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,665
Aux alentours d'Aix en Provence
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,997
Colors Painting for Sale
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?