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![Painting, Rediscovered 4., Petr Strnad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192051_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean Miotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178338_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean Miotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178335_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean Miotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178313_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean Miotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178311_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hidden Legacies, Fintan Whelan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175657_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Transformations, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173000_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Keeping On, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bloom, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172994_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Optichromie 122, Felipe Pantone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166474_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Frozen Dreams, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165964_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Stardust, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165957_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, What Now?, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165954_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Delirium, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156474_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Las risas en mis sueños, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151195_1_grid.jpg)
Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
€4,562
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144966_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144965_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144962_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144961_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144958_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144957_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144956_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Claude Viallat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143554_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Frühblüher, Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139962_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Letter lover, Nasty](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135439_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, MB 71, Méryl B](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129593_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Couleurs méditerranéennes, Isabelle Fournet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1950777_1_grid.jpg)
Couleurs méditerranéennes
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 95 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
![Painting, Somnium No. 8, Series VIII, Mario Henrique](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1710039_1_grid.jpg)
Somnium No. 8, Series VIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€6,500
![Painting, Bouthan, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1709418_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Foulard bleu, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1663575_1_grid.jpg)
Foulard bleu
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,700 €2,430
![Painting, Nuée de papillons, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559892_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tactile memory #134, Natasha Zupan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1513032_1_grid.jpg)
Tactile memory #134
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 24.1 x 19.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.5 x 3 inch
€2,086
![Painting, Jour et nuit (ermioni 8h-11h), Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467336_1_grid.jpg)
Jour et nuit (ermioni 8h-11h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 73 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Jour et nuit (ermioni 6h-8h), Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467327_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jour et nuit (ermioni 5h-6h), Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467312_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cimes et racines / Leonpodium 1, Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1463295_1_grid.jpg)
Cimes et racines / Leonpodium 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Life in Colors 72, Veronica Vilsan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1381962_1_grid.jpg)
Life in Colors 72
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 60 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€900 €675
![Painting, Spring Garden, Viktoria Ganhao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1360746_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Straec #41, Luuk de Haan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1337298_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Color Awakening 1, Viktoria Ganhao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1127667_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Garage doors, Barry Cawston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/920406_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Silma, Eric Robin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/882834_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Odin Pigelet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195372_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Odin Pigelet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195369_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Taxis sur Broadway, Daniel Castan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176499_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Après la pluie, Célia Eid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153147_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Capter le positif, Jazzu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chaleur tropicale, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1992261_1_grid.jpg)
Chaleur tropicale
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
![Painting, Audace, Emilie Serris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738950_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ab Ovo, Vladimir Kolosov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1471869_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Décembre, Rita Vandenherrewegen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1290687_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un instant de bonheur, Rita Vandenherrewegen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1290654_1_grid.jpg)
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
€390
![Painting, Composition 404, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197876_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 402, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197873_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition 306, Xiu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1160883_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, City Lights, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1069824_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet), Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202381_1_grid.jpg)
Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€300
![Painting, Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin), Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199104_1_grid.jpg)
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€260
![Painting, A l'infini, Agnès Tiollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182930_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Ecuyere, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°165, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162785_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°163, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162783_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°159, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162782_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°6-14, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162776_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°6-14
Harry James Moody
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Abstract n°5-14, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162774_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°5-14
Harry James Moody
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Abstract n°4-14, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162768_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°4-14
Harry James Moody
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Abstract n°479, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162763_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°320, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162756_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract n°310-4, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162751_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°310-4
Harry James Moody
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.5 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Abstract n°310-3, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162750_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°310-3
Harry James Moody
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.5 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Moderne VI, Yrak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160780_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marine abstraite 52, Fred Boutet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158820_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Graffiti all stars, Vincent Bardou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156307_1_grid.jpg)
Graffiti all stars
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 80 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Abstract n°480 Abstract Free Fall, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154077_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°480 Abstract Free Fall
Harry James Moody
Painting - 71.1 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,800
![Painting, Abstract n°479 Abstract Free Fall, Harry James Moody](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154076_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract n°479 Abstract Free Fall
Harry James Moody
Painting - 71.1 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,800
![Photography, Flux # 202307, Paul Snell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971060_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gai Luron, David Cumps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1948452_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Popy, Perrotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1937919_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tag 2112, Saname](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928355_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mickey Alu I, David Cumps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1898604_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marine abstraite 2023-06, Fred Boutet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870431_1_grid.jpg)
Marine abstraite 2023-06
Fred Boutet
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€800
![Painting, Marine abstraite 2023-02, Fred Boutet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870407_1_grid.jpg)
Marine abstraite 2023-02
Fred Boutet
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€800
![Painting, Week-end en amoureux, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1787373_1_grid.jpg)
Week-end en amoureux
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
![Painting, Flowers, Moshe Leider](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1723536_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coloramax 6, Keny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1615515_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coloramax 14, Keny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1615467_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Exploded Landscape, Marion Sagon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1562244_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Exploded Landscape, Marion Sagon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1562232_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On sort les voiles, Sophie Petetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1374906_1_grid.jpg)
On sort les voiles
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,450
![Print, Firewood, Sam Francis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1374885_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The song of love, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1370523_1_grid.jpg)
The song of love
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€900
![Photography, Bleed # 202129, Paul Snell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1328841_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Poule ou coq ?, Julien Cuny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1274490_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?