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El Gozo de la Tribu
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 204 x 340 x 2 cm Painting - 80.3 x 133.9 x 0.8 inch
$13,542
Lucia Bose, Cronaca di un amore
Fabio Purino
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$837
Caramel Roses I - textured floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 40 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$954
Flower Aura - colorful floral arwork
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,105
Akai Hanabira modern textured green floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,507
Flower Sonata floral light beige textured art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,708
Sapphire Rhapsody floral blue square large painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,708
Square Hifuka Floral Colorful Art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,909
Blue Spring - floral textured painting on canvas
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,055
Blue Spring II - floral textured landscape or vertical format
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,105
Bohemian Roses - floral textured vertical art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$954
Calm Day II - square floral romantic art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,407
Who Are These Angels CXLIII
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$850
Le silence se fait, il n’y a plus de bruit
Cécile Trousse
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,094
I reply on you
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,451
A Pulp Fiction pop art tribute
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,470
Trois coups de rouge
Pierre Alechinsky
Painting - 34 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$12,279
" L'automne arrive" abstrait acrylique collage mortier châssis lin 83x54 cm 2017
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 83 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 32.7 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,786
Sweet smell of summer
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.7 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$893
The Mosaic of Colors
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,228
While waiting call for dinner
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
A confident smile
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,009 $1,808
Quinacridone Magenta
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$1,020
Peinture 11-2023-66
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$781
Peinture 10-2020-100
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,898
Marine abstraite 55
Fred Boutet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,340
Keep Smiling (Gardez le Sourire)
Bruno Cantais
Print - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$502 $251
En attendant la vague
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$391
Plumes d'Estran
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$993
La lumière du Volcan
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 64 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,407
Life (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Pop dog (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
In the end of summer
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,400
Paysage abstrait 9
Cécile Girard
Painting - 138 x 94 x 3 cm Painting - 54.3 x 37 x 1.2 inch
$11,163 $10,046
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$6,804
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?