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Chaleur Humaine - Fruit Défendu
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,596
Sans titre - Fruit Défendu
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,933
Vulve-monde - Fruit Défendu
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,270
Les règles de la cohabitation sociale.
Noah Borger
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$337
La ventana
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$843
Paseo victori
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$843
Le da color
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$843
Emergence chromatique
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,112
Oxygènement harmonisant
Emilie Serris
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,899
Le monde en couleur (1)
Yichao Sun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$674 $607
Leader and followers
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,550
La mini maison
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,596
Mountain Vista 2
Hilary Winfield
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,495
Haut en couleur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$596
Village de rêve
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,719
Couleurs festives
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,247
Couleurs festives (2)
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,247
Bouteilles bleues
Christian Jodin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$899 $629
Temporal Perception # 220 A
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$3,375
Portrait of a girl
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 46 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,180
Jour et nuit (ermioni 4h-5h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 24 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$730
Jour et nuit (ermioni 2h-4h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
Walking The City
George Pinder
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3.8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$4,214
Paralleled Reflections
Candice Grant
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$950
Luminous Moments
Candice Grant
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 0.75 inch
$1,030
An Energetic Impression
Candice Grant
Painting - 81.3 x 66 x 1.9 cm Painting - 32 x 26 x 0.75 inch
$1,050
The Ever Shifting Mood
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,050
Don't Hide Your Beauty
Candice Grant
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$1,150
Experiencing an Altered Reality
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$940
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?