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Village d'enfance
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€900
Traffic Full Color Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,240
NAMAL TEL AVIV
David Djian
Photography - 53.33 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 21 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€600
Turquoise Vertical Panels
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€999
L'abri légendaire
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€680
La reine paisible
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€680
Untitled in Purple & Yellow
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€999
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0783
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 46 x 55 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 inch
€1,200
Les coquelicots
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Print - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,260
Sentiment de papillon N°14
Aurélien Finance
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
€1,900
Happy Diptych in "Washi"
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 3.81 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€1,690
The forest for the trees
Nick Warren
Painting - 76 x 101.5 x 3.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40 x 1.4 inch
€3,060
Le gardien de l'espoir
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€725
Petite fille à la balançoire
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Le passage des ombres
Dominique Prévots
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
WILD KONG 80 TAG mat
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 65 x 33 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 25.6 x 13 inch
€29,900
Fronde azzurre 3
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 112 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.1 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€1,800
Broken celebrity #7
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,124
The king of light on his skate
Themanfromthefuture Urano
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€750
Breathing Mountain
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 100 x 115 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 45.3 x 0 inch
€1,750
11
Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 207 x 63 x 2 cm Painting - 81.5 x 24.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
10
Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 206 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 81.1 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
09
Jérôme Mesnager & Artiste Ouvrier
Painting - 208 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 81.9 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Synesthetic Letters - T
Dasha Pears
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€780
Dervisci Rotanti
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 115 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
€2,000
Monte di fuoco
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 110 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
€2,000
Wind in Her Hair
Dasha Pears
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,180
Generational feeling 25
David Murcia
Painting - 195 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
€7,550
Recordando el gran artista Alberto Riano "Mangos" Marzo
Celso Castro
Painting - 99.6 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.2 x 28 x 0.1 inch
€1,931
Abstract N°4111 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
€1,200
A source of happiness
Rémy Demestre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Le Fort National, St Malo
Franck Dupire
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€530
Organic Patterns XVI
Eliane Saheurs
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,569
Collapse gris/orange - Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€680
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?