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Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,798
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Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,798
Le voleur d'arcanes
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$5,394
Entre l'ombre et la lumière
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,450
Partition sémantique 2
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,079
The book I didn’t read #2
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 200 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,618
I'll hold you forever
Barbara Piller
Painting - 120 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,742
Zone Commerciale #1
Severine Dietrich
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,573
Unconscious Spiral of Desire II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
In a reverie she saw The fox on a mast
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 170 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 66.9 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,813
Feather bow
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$13,247
Cool, fun et miaooo
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
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
$3,933
Natura morta orientale
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 45 x 51 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
$787 $669
Rue Norvins Montmartre
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$730
Fickle Memory 08
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.8 x 103 x 3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$899
Femme au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$618
Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,146
Mariage aux Marguerites
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,226
Provence vue sur St Tropez
Brito Esteves
Painting - 61 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Soft abstraction II
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 90 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
Jour et nuit (ermioni 8h-11h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 73 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 inch
$2,247
Cimes et racines / Anémone 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
Cimes et racines / Ranunculus- Anémone
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 92 x 60 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 inch
$2,247
Cimes et racines / Leonpodium 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
Cimes et racines / Néottie 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
Yellow flowers in blue still life
Gordon Hopkins
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$6,180
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
$1,798
Autoportrait en bleu
Dominique Kennel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$360
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
$2,420
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
The Layers of Perception
Candice Grant
Painting - 81.3 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm Painting - 32 x 28 x 0.75 inch
$1,050
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?