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Les livres de Colette
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,800
Le souffle du temps
Christiane Hess
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,900
Harmony Motel, Twentynine Palms, California
Richard Heeps
Photography - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Carré Rouge Souligné Jaune
Jean-Roch Focant
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,100
Le Fond du Pot Rouge
Jean-Roch Focant
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,100
Le Petit Dinosaure
Jean-Roch Focant
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
L'envol de L'Esprit
Christiane Hess
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€850
1979 Red Abstraction Rouge
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 40 x 50 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€1,450
1977 Green Abstraction verte
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 30 x 37 cm Painting - 11.8 x 14.6 inch
€1,940
1978 Green Abstraction verte
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,950
The situation of the lines
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
The red paper, fragments of the conciousness
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
Abstract Beige n°477
Harry James Moody
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 inch
€12,945
La machine infernale
Damienne Valentin
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€700
Les couleurs du paradis
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€900
Chasing something in the night
Isabelle Rivest
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 inch
€1,846
La femme en rouge
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
€1,100
Au meilleur d'elle-même
JM Robert
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,400
Les êtres de la nature
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
€1,050
Folk still life
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 101.6 x 63.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.7 inch
€1,966
Drama in the Sky
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 101.6 x 63.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.7 inch
€1,390
Merge of red and blue
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 86.4 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 38 x 0.7 inch
€1,390
Movin' Forward
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,074
Magic Forest
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
€1,975
Relic Of The Past III
Karen Hale
Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,007
Relic Of The Past IV
Karen Hale
Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,007
Remembering Tomorrow III
Jo Moore
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,822
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?