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Accroche Cœur
Marie-Pierre Hogret
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,525
Waiting For Christmas
Cédric Palobart
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$3,829
Symphonie pastorale
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,753
Le ciel sans limite
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,753
From Carbon to Silicon
Cédric Palobart
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1 inch
$4,506
Window view 13 - Ardent desir
Low Bros
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$10,434
Window view 12 - Yass queen
Low Bros
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,215
Window view 10 sunday mourning
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,213
Window view 07 - Melancholia
Low Bros
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$9,546
Window view 07 - Melancholia
Low Bros
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$12,765
Les ailes de l'amour
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$877
ATTRAPPES MOI SI TU M'AIMES
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$766
Tertulia
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,810
The Language of Love 1
Laura Spring
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$320
The Language of Love 4
Laura Spring
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$330
The lost world
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,442
Référence personnelle
Jean-Michel Cordier
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,553
L’impossible est éphémère
Olivier Toma
Painting - 300 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 118.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$15,739
De l’autre côté du miroir
Olivier Toma
Painting - 250 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 98.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$15,295
Demain le soleil brillera toujours
Sange
Painting - 73 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,886
Chronos et la lame du destin
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,549
La dernière colonne
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,549
Jeune Poséidon à la murène amoureuse
Timothy Archer
Painting - 125 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,549
Cuisine campagnarde
Françoise Bircher
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$388
REF 8-24 - Composition n° 57
Jeanne
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,099
Domestic yellows I
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.4 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
$600
Au fil de l'eau
Moïse-Lisette Grulet
Painting - 35 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
$166
Les faiseurs d'arc-en-ciel
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 31 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$94
Heaven's Gate
Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$26,195
Woman with Hat Blossoms
Nicolle Menegaldo
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,509
12 pains azyme 7 boules de cristal
Thibault Franc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
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?