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Divine Vagina
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$16,597
Summer Thunderstorm in the Afternoon
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$9,549
Sunrise in Songzhuang
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,050
Joie de vivre XXVI
Johanne Brouillette
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$4,320
Under Current
Kathryn MacNaughton
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,480
Pomegranates and sunshine
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 80 x 120 x 6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2.4 inch
$3,270
Eloges Elogieuses
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$125
Bicolore 20 "Purple haze "
Mr Garcia
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$136 $123
She's a Nature
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 125 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$16,142
Samsara
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 130 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$12,959
Burst into Bloom
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 140 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$25,009
Rosh
Olivier Attar (Attoli)
Photography - 126 x 95 x 0.1 cm Photography - 49.6 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$1,080
Volcan revolver
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 160 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,558
Jeune fille cueillant des fleurs
C. A.
Painting - 34.5 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,315
Bouquet Printanier 1
Brigitte Mathé
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$432
Ancient Asia XXI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,807
New York Color XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,035
Where the reeds bend in the cool breeze
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 155 x 135 x 6 cm Painting - 61 x 53.1 x 2.4 inch
$6,607
Wandering the Costal Path
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,270
Le Ver dans la Pomme
Jean-Roch Focant
Painting - 30 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$455
The Pond - L’étang
Frédérique Cantais
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$398
Summer. Flower field 15.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,705 $1,535
Pale pink field 5.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,274 $2,046
Summer bouquet.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,251 $2,026
Jardin de Majorelle
Charlotte Pivard
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,274
YO! Stromtrooper (série de rues)
JP Malot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$568
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?