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Peace and Meeples
Andrea Van Der Hoeven
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$281
Dans la forêt III
Taeho Choi
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 120 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,023
Blurred Blue - XXL
Jürgen Angeler
Painting - 115 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$1,124
Libre comme l'air 2
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$1,573
Geschüle Unlerwe
Kurt Josef Haas
Painting - 122 x 102 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
$12,922
Abstract landscape N°4
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 15.8 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$258
Mélodie pour deux chatons et piano
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$44
Onde vibratoire jaune
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Landscape abstraction 03
Paulina Szabra
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru
Nazareth Collins Jangala
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$562
Meditation
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.1 inch
$1,910
Cosmo Podos
Marie Christine Palombit
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
La Vida es Bella
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 40 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,023
Serie The Landscape No.1
Qing-Chun Diao
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,461
1958 Oiseau Bird
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 75 x 54 x 0.75 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0.3 inch
$1,067
City lights
Ifigenia Christodoulidou
Painting - 99.1 x 50.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39 x 20 x 1.6 inch
$1,950
Take Your Places
Denise Souza Finney
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,360
The First Cracks in the Cosmos
Preston M Smith
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,480
Take Me Out of the Blue Today
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
$925
Trying to integrate, Painting, Acrylic on MDF panel
Bob Hunt
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$875
Melody for guitar and sax
Silvia Vassileva
Painting - 58.4 x 119.4 x 2 cm Painting - 23 x 47 x 0.8 inch
$1,700
Le touareg
Françoise Lapierre
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$674
About The Rose # II
Elisa Costa
Painting - 89.9 x 69.1 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,054
Organic Patterns XVII
Eliane Saheurs
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,625
Love letter
SUZ Shippey Borski
Painting - 124.5 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 49 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,700
Victory over the sun #1, (Intervened)
Monika Bravo
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1 inch
$1,999
Hot Lunch Jame - Fame
Clotilde Verriès
Painting - 50 x 99 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$1,124 $1,067
Dottor Pupius
Massimo Festi
Photography - 200 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 78.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,686
Untitled Clay Pieces
Derick Smith
Sculpture - 96 x 46 x 2 cm Sculpture - 37.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,472
Lava and Lentils, flower and sandals winter's drops through yellower hair more than usual
Rina Banerjee
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28.5 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,742
Lab #10 Painting. From the Lab series
Alec Franco
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$750
Lab #9 Painting. From the Lab series
Alec Franco
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$750
Anse des cascades
Ralph Resch
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,450 $1,305
Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,146
Une brise sur les fleurs et les sourires
Jéko
Painting - 140 x 107 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 42.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,259
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?