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It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,274
Estival
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$773
Chrysanthemum Cascade
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Octagonal Composition
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$909
Drôle d'animal (1)
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,238
Lab #10 Painting. From the Lab series
Alec Franco
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$750
Abstract Floral Field
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$750
La danse des cartes
Xavier de Vilmorin
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$2,160
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
$1,137
Blossoming Romance
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,433
Les architectures de l'ombre V.XXXXI
Geraldine Wilcke
Photography - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,364
Shoreditch 1&2
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 82 x 43 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 16.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,046
City in Cherry Blossoms
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,000
Heart-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,591 $1,432
Saturación, Luminosidad & Destornillador. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Sculpture - 129.8 x 25.9 x 19.8 cm Sculpture - 51.1 x 10.2 x 7.8 inch
$1,900
Herramienta en Amarillo. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Stylish woman with red lips
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Vista Ruscello
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,615
The dance of a star
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,250
Spring sunset #3
Laura Dujoncquoy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,705
Yeah yeah yeah song
Stéphane Pontié
Painting - 80 x 55.5 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch
$6,252
Asia lithographie originale, édition limitée
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,023
Delicious still life 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,978
Saint Michel Terrassant le dragon
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 49.7 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.6 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,164
Silence, on tourne
Sabine Louriac
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$568
Window view 11 - Wipe left
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$9,776
The girl with golden hair
Barbara Kroll
Painting - 99.1 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,700
Le Salon des Hessels, d’après Vuillard. (2)
Charlotte Moore
Print - 51 x 63.5 cm Print - 20.1 x 25 inch
$682
L'instant majorelle IV
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$773
Amazonia
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,137
Tableau d'une trahison
Frédéric Lemonnier
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$978
The last days of Zion
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$625
Femme au tuyau - série portrait de femme
Karine Azoulay (1kazou)
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
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?