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Silver abstract
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$8,525
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$950
Autumn sunset
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$990
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,650
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
Bambou
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$871
Still life with blue
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,014
Lightness of being
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,889
Cheerful cascade of summer flowers
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,889
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,098
Signs of Time VII
Claudia Werth
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,158
Paradise Parasite
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,943
Fantasy
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 76 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,733
Sojourn
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,453
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,342
A New Slate
Angelica Tcherassi
Painting - 49.8 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,600
Double Exposure Mountain Flowers
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
Everyday Life - Follow your Dreams
Mr Brainwash
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Painting - 30 x 22 inch
$15,093
News update 2
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 91.4 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 46 x 1 inch
$1,550
Le bonheur en couleurs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,174
Les fées des fleurs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$1,174
In the distance
Christian Valentine
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,200
Green Purple Yellow
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,121
Blue Watermelon Drips
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
Jeux d'Eole - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$928
Green Arc Over Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
Rollers and palm trees
Linda Clerget
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,677
Graff n°1400
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$671
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?