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![Painting, Sortilège, Christiane Papé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045013_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aubade, Christiane Papé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045010_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Prelude, Christiane Papé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2044995_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golden sun, Christiane Papé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2044962_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 377 Around the world, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033109_1_grid.jpg)
377 Around the world
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 379 Orange sun, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033106_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 380 Above the sea, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033103_1_grid.jpg)
380 Above the sea
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 381 going for a spin, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033100_1_grid.jpg)
381 going for a spin
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 382 coming from space, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033097_1_grid.jpg)
382 coming from space
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 383 hidden gems l, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033094_1_grid.jpg)
383 hidden gems l
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 384 hidden gems ll, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033091_1_grid.jpg)
384 hidden gems ll
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 385 Piazza di Spagna, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033088_1_grid.jpg)
385 Piazza di Spagna
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 386 Above the Arno River, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033085_1_grid.jpg)
386 Above the Arno River
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, 387 Crossing the Arno River, Anne B Schwartz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033082_1_grid.jpg)
387 Crossing the Arno River
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Wild Delight, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032674_1_grid.jpg)
Wild Delight
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 70.1 x 4.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.8 inch
$1,485
![Painting, Touching the Sky, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032653_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wintermärchen, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032647_1_grid.jpg)
Wintermärchen
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$1,676
![Painting, Delicate Strength, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032644_1_grid.jpg)
Delicate Strength
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$943
![Painting, Going with the Flow, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032641_1_grid.jpg)
Going with the Flow
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$943
![Painting, The Pulse of Life, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032632_1_grid.jpg)
The Pulse of Life
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,166
![Painting, Out of the Blue, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032626_1_grid.jpg)
Out of the Blue
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,310
![Painting, Dance of Possibilities, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032608_1_grid.jpg)
Dance of Possibilities
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,310
![Painting, Floating With You, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032605_1_grid.jpg)
Floating With You
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,310
![Painting, Joie de Vivre, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032602_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On a rainy day in my garden, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032599_1_grid.jpg)
On a rainy day in my garden
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,755
![Painting, Promises, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032596_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Double cadre, Zafi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2003343_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage 2, Francis L'Huillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977291_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The moment I wake up, Chantal Proulx](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1960224_1_grid.jpg)
The moment I wake up
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,825
![Print, Varangeville - Cote normande, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1952850_1_grid.jpg)
Varangeville - Cote normande
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$213
![Print, Mont St Michel, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1952847_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, S'auras tu vivre le plus mauvais (Diptyque), Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1951695_1_grid.jpg)
S'auras tu vivre le plus mauvais (Diptyque)
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,803
![Print, Rochers, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1949475_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les pois - Côte bretonne, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1949457_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pins et rochers, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1945788_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pins provençaux, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944495_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Tarascon - Provence, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944489_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ville de Toscane, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944477_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pont aux changes II, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944045_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Paris - le soir, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944042_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Notre Dame, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944039_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le pont neuf - Rive gauche, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944036_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le pont des arts, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1941447_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cypres - Campagne provençale I, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1923717_1_grid.jpg)
Cypres - Campagne provençale I
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$213
![Print, Hameau en Normandie, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920855_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Campagne normande II, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920792_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Campagne normande I, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920789_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Campagne normande (Les Andelys), Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920777_1_grid.jpg)
Campagne normande (Les Andelys)
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$213
![Print, Belle île - Contre jour, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920771_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ballots de paille au matin, Patrick Marie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920759_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contextual splinters #11, Christian Culver](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884618_1_grid.jpg)
Contextual splinters #11
Christian Culver
Painting - 45.7 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 8 x 0.1 inch
$1,550
![Painting, Time Span, Karen Hale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1876506_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 61, Jamel Sghaier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865565_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 62, Jamel Sghaier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865562_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Terracotta knott, Silvia Vassileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858296_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Brilliant blue water, Silvia Vassileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858113_1_grid.jpg)
Brilliant blue water
Silvia Vassileva
Painting - 66 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 26 x 26 x 1 inch
$1,140
![Painting, Sweetness, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1857951_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Loving spring, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1857945_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter heat, Lynne Taetzsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852539_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The ride of life, Selene Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852095_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ohlala, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852062_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Inner Essence, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1851945_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Adoration, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1843020_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter blues, Lynne Taetzsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842843_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reconnecting with your inner self, Selene Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842624_1_grid.jpg)
Reconnecting with your inner self
Selene Art
Painting - 49.8 x 174.8 x 3.6 cm Painting - 19.6 x 68.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,285
![Painting, Sentimental journey, Christel Haag](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842147_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Life, Esteban Vera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831650_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hidden pond, Christel Haag](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831026_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bubble gum 1, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830819_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bubble gum 2, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830753_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Viridity, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On a Bright Day, Angela Dierks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830537_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bubble gum 3, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818855_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bubble gum 4, Pamela Rys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818615_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas, Christel Haag](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818249_1_grid.jpg)
Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christel Haag
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$820
![Painting, Prayer from a child, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815696_1_grid.jpg)
Prayer from a child
Xiaoyang Galas
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 4.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,260
![Painting, Home Again, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, June Johnson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770822_1_grid.jpg)
Home Again, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
June Johnson
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$850
![Painting, Phoenix Vs. Dragon 3, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1768902_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Farbiges Spiel mit Blumen, Nicole Leidenfrost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758834_1_grid.jpg)
Farbiges Spiel mit Blumen
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,175
![Painting, Queen Marta, Yannick Aaron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730520_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Printemps à Giverny, Agnès Tiollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721055_1_grid.jpg)
Printemps à Giverny
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,457
![Painting, Ciel rouge et mauve, Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1696431_1_grid.jpg)
Ciel rouge et mauve
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
![Painting, Frida, un petit peu, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681899_1_grid.jpg)
Frida, un petit peu
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,691
![Painting, Happy Harmony XXXV, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649583_1_grid.jpg)
Happy Harmony XXXV
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,233
![Painting, Anime Riflesse, Antonino Puliafico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1648488_1_grid.jpg)
Anime Riflesse
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 125 x 180 x 1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,924
![Print, Gate of heaven, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628463_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Et l'on n'y peut rien, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627278_1_grid.jpg)
Et l'on n'y peut rien
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,691
![Painting, Les herbes folles, Chantal Proulx](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1597029_1_grid.jpg)
Les herbes folles
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,825
![Painting, Etreinte, Françoise Dugourd-Caput](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1588506_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Glowing Emotion I, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1574103_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We are the music makers, Kelly Jenkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548753_1_grid.jpg)
We are the music makers
Kelly Jenkins
Painting - 34 x 34 x 3 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
$915
![Painting, Secret Reality and Fear II, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1542186_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ozone, Sylvie Barco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1538862_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?