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Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°17
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°12
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°11
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°10
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°16
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°9
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°8
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°7
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°4
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,907
Ombres et lumières cortexiennes N°3
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2.1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,907
Camden town III
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$3,130
Field of color - west III
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 35.6 x 35.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 14 x 14 x 0.5 inch
$350
Field of color - west IV
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 35.6 x 35.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 14 x 14 x 0.5 inch
$350
Processus de formation.
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 61 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,012
"Enfouissement" abstrait acrylique collage végétaux sur lin 73x60cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
I feel in blue sescape
Dam Domido
Painting - 75 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$3,242
Ray of volcanic sunshine
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$671
Business partners
Andrei Sitsko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,817
A Small Blue Painting
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.3 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 1.3 inch
$450
Composition No. 450
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$894
Composition No. 453
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 97 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,453
Composition No. 456
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 86 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 33.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,789
Composition No.419
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 61 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,453
Composition No.413
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 71 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28 x 1.2 inch
$1,901
Moustique et moi
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Geo campi di grano
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,509
Parti pris
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,174
Dialogue de couleurs #1 Bleu Orange
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$671
Keep Smiling (Gardez le Sourire)
Bruno Cantais
Print - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$330
Untitled. From the Cartographies series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 87.9 x 129.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 34.6 x 51.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
Untitled. From the Anatomy series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 119.9 x 86.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 34.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Spring Dance - very large floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,119
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
$3,522
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
$3,723
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
$3,622
Green FLOWers - extra large floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,421
Grandir dans les montagnes
Clo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,575
Sunshine Embrace
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
A Break in Reality
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
Along the Back Roads
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,789
A Burst of Gold
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,789
Heart over head
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
Life is a joyful ride
Barbara Piller
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$671
Horizon de liberté… (Souvenirs du sud)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,031
Mare impetuoso al tramonto olio su canapa
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
Golfo Ártabro - 1
Julien Jubault
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
Avec vous
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche
Painting - 115 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,708
Echoes of the Mountains
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$380
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?