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French riviera
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,125
Damier au crayon rouge
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,566
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre 2 et vert d'eau 2
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,566
Combinaison shérique cristal 2 sur fond blanc
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,566
Combinaison shérique Cristal 1 sur fond blanc
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,566
Aires tropicales
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 190 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0 inch
$12,181
When I look into your eyes
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,826
The emerald spirit of Africa
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$1,342
Peinture 05-2022-38
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$951
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,007
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,074
Happy Emotion I
Kajazun (Kajo) Avetisyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$895
Elena con Perlas
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,927
Midnight Melodies
Godwin Arikpo
Painting - 91.44 x 121.92 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$1,788
Jardin d'emeraude - Serie silk
Brice Mounier
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$2,684
Sans titre Ref (358)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 105 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,915
Sans titre Ref (357)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 117 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,691
Sans titre Ref (356)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 105 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,467
Sans titre Ref (353)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 85 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,467 $3,121
Sans titre Ref (352)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 102 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 40.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,691
Sans titre Ref (351)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 103 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 40.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,915
Sans titre Ref (350)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 95 x 88 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 34.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,915
Brume venitienne
Marianne Dencausse Robbe
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,890
Noname 140.100 B9
Stéphane Rime
Painting - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,510
The angel wing
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$2,796
Composition abstraite
Mady Epstein
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,345
Marine abstraite 2024-42
Fred Boutet
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$1,230
Once in Yellow & Blue
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,117
Diamond Star Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,734
Mystérieuse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$593
Paris Subway Map II
Piotre
Painting - 40 x 47.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.75 x 18.75 x 0.1 inch
$1,007 $805
Village d'enfance
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,007
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?