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Les couleurs de la France
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 116 x 96 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 37.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,371
Thriving in the Darkness
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$600
The Magic of the Unknown
Candice Grant
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$600
French Tannin Festif
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 30 x 17 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch
$506
Les soupirs de Glaucus
Marie-Noëlle Deverre
Print - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$787
Les petites lumières de nos vies
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,129
Bleu minéral - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,472
Bleu écriture - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,472
Music of the Countryside
Janice Toulouse
Painting - 40 x 55.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.9 x 1 inch
$562
Monde intérieur
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$983
Méta-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$944
Sun-Scorched Seaweed
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 18 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,596
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,545
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,545
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 68 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 65 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
In the depths of the forest
Agata Zyczkowska
Painting - 60 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,798
Mouvement - Abstraction
Nicole Gérard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,483
L'accordéoniste - Semi-abstrait
Nicole Gérard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,483
Marcher dans les champs de fleurs
Jéko
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,348
Rochers réfléchissants
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Le sentier vers le ciel
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
Les nymphéas jaunes
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
I want it for myself
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 140 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,135
Popeye got the power
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 98 x 98 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.6 x 38.6 x 1 inch
$5,057
Bugs Bunny Chupa Chups
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 70 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$2,697
Sans titre (unique) 2021
JP Malot
Painting - 81 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,798
Organdi - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$989
Matin de la terre - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,832
Parfum d'alentour - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,551
Rothschild Avenue B - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 60 x 46 x 7 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 18.1 x 2.8 inch
$4,382
Rothschild Avenue A - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 46 x 60 x 7 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 23.6 x 2.8 inch
$4,382
City on wheels - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Print - 73 x 93 x 3.5 cm Print - 28.7 x 36.6 x 1.4 inch
$5,281
Abstract surfboard (2)
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 160 x 36 x 4 cm Sculpture - 63 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,214
Abstract surfboard (1)
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 160 x 36 x 4 cm Sculpture - 63 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,214
Le sens de l'espace
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$1,096
Tentation - Composition XXIV
Martine Lallement
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,405
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?