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La Liseuse, estampe originale
Speedy Graphito
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.05 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$841
Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,446
Flowers on a different Star
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Standing on the shifting sands
Luca Brandi
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,870
Coucher de soleil
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Shared Experience
Brad Nuorala
Painting - 101.6 x 118.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 46.5 x 1.5 inch
$3,251
Fickle Memory 08
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.8 x 103 x 3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$897
Campagna Toscana
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$673
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$3,812
Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,139
Drab Days and Coloured Minds
Giò Schiano
Sculpture - 36 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
$998
The power of now
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,588
Nocturne édition originale limitée
Speedy Graphito
Print - 53 x 42 x 0.5 cm Print - 20.9 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,121
"Scène de rue" figuratif acrylique châssis lin 100x120cm encadré 1985
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,027
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "Mini - Grid to play"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$325
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "Mini - Just a kiss"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$325
No life without whimsy
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,550
Arbre de vie et papillons
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$11,211
Papillons gold
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$11,211
Les femmes de Tahiti, sérigraphie originale
Speedy Graphito
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.05 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$841
Violet white abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,029
Eclipse jaune x2
Alice Aladjem
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,018
Strength your aura
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 70 x 2 inch
$1,300
Aquagravure originale de Speedy Graphito "Zoulou Flash Back"
Speedy Graphito
Print - 85 x 66 x 0.5 cm Print - 33.5 x 26 x 0.2 inch
$1,794
Autoportrait en bleu
Dominique Kennel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$359
Korin The Land Beyond Death Bathed in Light
Takashi Murakami
Print - 71 x 71 x 0.1 cm Print - 28 x 28 x 0 inch
$2,453
Natura morta orientale
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 45 x 51 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
$785
My Mind on Art 4
Susan Wolfe Huppman
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Lucioles dans le ciel nocturne
Yichao Sun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,121
L'eau échevelée
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,354
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,401
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,401
Giochi di Sabbia
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$729
Cespuglio riflesso
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,009
Traffic pink landscape 50 (2024)
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,568
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?