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![Painting, When the sun goes down, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182112_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Street fight man, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155337_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Little Stories, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151942_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, When Things Go Well, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151941_1_grid.jpg)
When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$1,059
![Painting, En fuite, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150156_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Maïs 2, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147883_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elba, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118843_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fétiche, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2075727_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The way flowers look in the sun, Christian Valentine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2044863_1_grid.jpg)
The way flowers look in the sun
Christian Valentine
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$2,050
![Painting, Terrains de jeux, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1952991_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Uncovered nature, Fintan Whelan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916439_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Impresion over view, Lianne Kocks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1144629_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Concern, Lianne Kocks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1144575_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Passion for Life, Mercedes Lagunas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207018_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quietly (Tranquillement), Janusz Kik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205870_1_grid.jpg)
Quietly (Tranquillement)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$330
![Painting, Réf. 115, Frédérique Barba](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153217_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lifestyle, Kurar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2028537_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les grandes vacances, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1984662_1_grid.jpg)
Les grandes vacances
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,125
![Painting, Rollers and palm trees, Linda Clerget](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971882_1_grid.jpg)
Rollers and palm trees
Linda Clerget
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
![Print, Untitled (SFE-117), Sam Francis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741086_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pink moon, Inès V. Fortuny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686834_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Colourful Parade, Paul Akiiki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599213_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Trandition, Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417164_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 410, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1198671_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 406, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1198638_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Passionnément, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/741702_1_grid.jpg)
Passionnément
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 123 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 48.4 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$7,270
![Painting, Il était une fois...., Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211212_1_grid.jpg)
Il était une fois....
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,971
![Painting, Just rainy-XXVI, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coposition-I, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207683_1_grid.jpg)
Coposition-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 34 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.4 x 0.2 inch
$213 $191
![Painting, Summer mood-II, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207222_1_grid.jpg)
Summer mood-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$336 $302
![Painting, Abstract forest-VI, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206397_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract forest-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$336 $302
![Painting, Music(blue night)-II, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205953_1_grid.jpg)
Music(blue night)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$336 $302
![Painting, Music(summer)-I, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205951_1_grid.jpg)
Music(summer)-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$336 $302
![Painting, Abstract forest-III, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205829_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract forest-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$615
![Painting, Abstract forest-IV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205828_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract forest-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$615
![Painting, Late Return (Retour Tardif), Janusz Kik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205747_1_grid.jpg)
Late Return (Retour Tardif)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$330
![Painting, Sumatrae, Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205016_1_grid.jpg)
Sumatrae
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,299
![Painting, Harbour (Au Mouillage), Janusz Kik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203876_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Evening (Le Soir), Janusz Kik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203866_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nada mejor que con el abuelo, Baptiste Laurent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202571_1_grid.jpg)
Nada mejor que con el abuelo
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 252 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 99.2 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,313
![Painting, Rinoceronte. From The Durero series, Ana Seggiaro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199680_1_grid.jpg)
Rinoceronte. From The Durero series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 110 x 129.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.1 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
![Painting, Régate 2 série Paysage marin et voiliers, Anne-Marie Bernardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197799_1_grid.jpg)
Régate 2 série Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$213
![Painting, The Lone Forager, Shahen Aleksandryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196737_1_grid.jpg)
The Lone Forager
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$199
![Painting, L'Oiseau Damoclès (Étude), Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190135_1_grid.jpg)
L'Oiseau Damoclès (Étude)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 45 x 28 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 11 x 1.2 inch
$510
![Painting, Meadow fleete, Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186867_1_grid.jpg)
Meadow fleete
Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,711
![Painting, Art style, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180145_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, And Then x6 Marine Blue, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137119_1_grid.jpg)
And Then x6 Marine Blue
Takashi Murakami
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,986
![Painting, Blue fado, Zokatos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130220_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sheep, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016384_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jeu d'eau, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997352_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La vie en couleur II, Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974324_1_grid.jpg)
La vie en couleur II
Maude Ovize
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,215
![Painting, Reflecting pool (Etude), Maude Ovize](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1532415_1_grid.jpg)
Reflecting pool (Etude)
Maude Ovize
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$895
![Painting, Happy Crowd, Gaëtan de Séguin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1466799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carmen, Hyunah Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1460118_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metaphysics, Hyunah Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1454091_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Subway Souvenir, Piotre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1318494_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Light red and gold, Christian Jodin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1069863_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Big Color Code, Gordon Hopkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/5048_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fleur d'été, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207330_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fleurs jaune d'or, Marianne Quinzin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206625_1_grid.jpg)
Fleurs jaune d'or
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,132
![Painting, Big bang sur papier 31, Joëlle Kem Lika](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203928_1_grid.jpg)
Big bang sur papier 31
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$201
![Painting, Spring III, Carlos Gamez de Francisco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202484_1_grid.jpg)
Spring III
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Painting - 102 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,375
![Painting, Dandy, Jean-Michel Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201765_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Happy Morning, Anastassia Skopp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198316_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Colorful shapes, Stanislav Lazarov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193742_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La lune qui pleure II, Christine Desplanque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188332_1_grid.jpg)
La lune qui pleure II
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 27.2 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 10.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$442
![Painting, La femme à la licorne, Yannick Aaron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187031_1_grid.jpg)
La femme à la licorne
Yannick Aaron
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2.7 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.1 inch
$13,422
![Painting, Perspectives Manhattan, Daniel Castan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175566_1_grid.jpg)
Perspectives Manhattan
Daniel Castan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,069
![Painting, Free spirit no. 10, Alexandra Romano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2025567_1_grid.jpg)
Free spirit no. 10
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,191
![Painting, Blue abyss, Alexandra Romano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2025537_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tectonic plates, Alexandra Romano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2025354_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Garden bliss, Gordon Hopkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/17382_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Paris verte, M.Chat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1437657_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Electra, Eric Robin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319712_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Street art is back, Vincent Bardou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1059198_1_grid.jpg)
Street art is back
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,908
![Print, Snail in itself, Kat Zhivetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212136_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Invincible sun, Kat Zhivetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212113_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Roseline, Alain Rigollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203965_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spring colors, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203681_1_grid.jpg)
Spring colors
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$500
![Painting, Grand dégradé carré bleu grisé, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202995_1_grid.jpg)
Grand dégradé carré bleu grisé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391 $333
![Painting, Grand dégradé carré bleu rose irisé, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202188_1_grid.jpg)
Grand dégradé carré bleu rose irisé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391 $333
![Painting, Grand dégradé carré or nacré, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200071_1_grid.jpg)
Grand dégradé carré or nacré
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391 $333
![Painting, Grand dégradé carré or rose violet, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198140_1_grid.jpg)
Grand dégradé carré or rose violet
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391 $333
![Painting, Mondrian, David Cumps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197115_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Alfons family, David Cumps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197110_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Set of 6 Oyster shell Incenses Holder, WKND Lab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194653_1_grid.jpg)
Set of 6 Oyster shell Incenses Holder
WKND Lab
Design - 0.5 x 30 x 13.5 cm Design - 0.2 x 11.8 x 5.3 inch
$175
![Painting, Empathy, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182110_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, I wasn't expecting you, Lilly Muth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179000_1_grid.jpg)
I wasn't expecting you
Lilly Muth
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
![Painting, You've turned my World upside down, Lilly Muth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175192_1_grid.jpg)
You've turned my World upside down
Lilly Muth
Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
![Painting, Finding you, Lilly Muth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175167_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Poésie, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999140_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Water meets Fire - Large Colorful Vivid Abstract Painting, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1720662_1_grid.jpg)
Water meets Fire - Large Colorful Vivid Abstract Painting
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,230
![Painting, Color Table 25, Hwajin Jo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1315929_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?