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![Painting, Oil Painting 10, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2027010_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue Grey Green, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2004012_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue Watermelon Drips, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996743_1_grid.jpg)
Blue Watermelon Drips
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
![Painting, Jeux d'Eole - Abstraction, Anne-Marie Bernardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991451_1_grid.jpg)
Jeux d'Eole - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$928
![Painting, Green Arc Over Blue, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1989945_1_grid.jpg)
Green Arc Over Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
![Painting, Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath), Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1981224_1_grid.jpg)
Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,124
![Painting, Dark Green, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980873_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hello world, Jade Mouge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974918_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Good Morning (noir) (8) (1), Walasse Ting](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1959915_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Direction, Deanna Sirlin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1939884_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spaces, Deanna Sirlin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1939881_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Good Morning (Rose) (8), Walasse Ting](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916667_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Good Morning (Mélange) (7), Walasse Ting](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916664_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Good morning (Jaune), Walasse Ting](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916628_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La danse aquatique, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1886688_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cotton candy, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1851894_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Color Derivatives #5, Natasha Zupan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798704_1_grid.jpg)
Color Derivatives #5
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 45.7 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 18 x 15 x 3 inch
$4,200
![Painting, After the War, Aatmica Ojha](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730019_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Circle in Circle - Brown 50, Ronald Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1622181_1_grid.jpg)
Circle in Circle - Brown 50
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,564
![Painting, Orange Mix, Ronald Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1622178_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Grues Couleurs, Amandine André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1605801_1_grid.jpg)
Grues Couleurs
Amandine André
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$537
![Painting, Profondeur, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1596132_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La lune, Jade Mouge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1560237_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Neon Pop Art Lines, Ronald Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1541556_1_grid.jpg)
Neon Pop Art Lines
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,117
![Painting, L’ivresse de toi, Benoit Thiel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1521741_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flux, Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1519278_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Force of nature (ii), Nigel Forbes Moores](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1456599_1_grid.jpg)
Force of nature (ii)
Nigel Forbes Moores
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,158
![Painting, Suspension, Jorge Manuel Chen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1450491_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ignis Faatus E, Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1439484_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Warm Red landscape, Ronald Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419735_1_grid.jpg)
Warm Red landscape
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,117
![Painting, Multitude, Benoit Thiel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1416843_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La solassitude, Benoit Thiel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1416837_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Havana Trip 2/2, Claudia Elena](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1378239_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Storm, Veronika Slivova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1377657_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On avance malgré ce ciel lourd, Maryse Chatron Kriloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1327680_1_grid.jpg)
On avance malgré ce ciel lourd
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,677
![Painting, Circulation-304, Sooman Moon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1322703_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paris Ville Lumière, Piotre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1318482_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Everyday Life - Follow your Dreams - Monkey, Mr Brainwash](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1290213_1_grid.jpg)
Everyday Life - Follow your Dreams - Monkey
Mr Brainwash
Painting - 127 x 96.5 cm Painting - 50 x 38 inch
$29,068
![Painting, Libellule vole, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1239654_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Candy, BB.Queen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1184280_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bleu minéral - série Abstraction, Francine Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1169166_1_grid.jpg)
Bleu minéral - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
![Painting, Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction, Francine Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1169163_1_grid.jpg)
Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
![Painting, Bleu écriture - série Abstraction, Francine Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1169154_1_grid.jpg)
Bleu écriture - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
![Painting, Sisters, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1088583_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 9, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181434_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 8, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181433_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 12, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180051_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 10, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180050_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 6, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180048_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne 7, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180045_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne 5, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180044_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne 9, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180042_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne 6, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177171_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne 4, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177170_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne (5), Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177169_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps 3, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177168_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne (3), Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177167_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne (1), Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177165_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Automne, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176390_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps II, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176041_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Printemps II, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176040_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 8, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176039_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 4, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176037_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait III, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176036_1_grid.jpg)
Paysage abstrait III
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,118
![Painting, Dream, Medra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175826_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait 4, Cécile Girard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174359_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait 5, Cécile Girard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174358_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait 6, Cécile Girard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174357_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait III, Cécile Girard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174356_1_grid.jpg)
Paysage abstrait III
Cécile Girard
Painting - 43 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,342
![Painting, Perfume Ballet, Meriem Delacroix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171209_1_grid.jpg)
Perfume Ballet
Meriem Delacroix
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,236
![Painting, La ventana, Marcello Cid Saint Jean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171071_1_grid.jpg)
La ventana
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$839
![Painting, Paseo victori, Marcello Cid Saint Jean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171068_1_grid.jpg)
Paseo victori
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$839
![Painting, Le da color, Marcello Cid Saint Jean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171027_1_grid.jpg)
Le da color
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$839
![Painting, Rooted Like Trees - Marks And Pools, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170775_1_grid.jpg)
Rooted Like Trees - Marks And Pools
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, Autumn Leaves - Perspectives, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170773_1_grid.jpg)
Autumn Leaves - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,550
![Painting, Walk With Nature No 1 - Perspectives, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170770_1_grid.jpg)
Walk With Nature No 1 - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,200
![Painting, Turn Away - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170765_1_grid.jpg)
Turn Away - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,395
![Painting, There Is A Wilderness - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170764_1_grid.jpg)
There Is A Wilderness - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,400
![Painting, Solitary Sea Bird - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170763_1_grid.jpg)
Solitary Sea Bird - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,480
![Painting, Being Myself - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170762_1_grid.jpg)
Being Myself - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,570
![Painting, That Wild Country - Wild, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170761_1_grid.jpg)
That Wild Country - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, I Need The Sunshine - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170760_1_grid.jpg)
I Need The Sunshine - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,420
![Painting, My Imagination - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170759_1_grid.jpg)
My Imagination - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, Who Hears Music - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170757_1_grid.jpg)
Who Hears Music - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$960
![Painting, Wildness - Wild Series, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170756_1_grid.jpg)
Wildness - Wild Series
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,020
![Painting, Cherish Your Solitude - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170752_1_grid.jpg)
Cherish Your Solitude - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, Fall In Love - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170751_1_grid.jpg)
Fall In Love - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, I Want To Be Alone - Solitude, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170750_1_grid.jpg)
I Want To Be Alone - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
![Painting, Calico Basin, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170733_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Journeys No 9, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170725_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Journeys No 10, Melissa McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170724_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 8, Qiong qiong Shao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160725_1_grid.jpg)
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?