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Childhood dreams-57
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$320
Peinture 10-2021-72
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$953
Discovering perspectives
Lena Bera-Pancini
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$785
Expanding reality
Lena Bera-Pancini
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$785
Keep Smiling (Gardez le Sourire)
Bruno Cantais
Print - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$331
The colorful basket
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$448
Whispers of Spring in Rural Repose
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Love #11172022
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Carrés fleuris
Ghislaine Chapuis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,457
20 Novembre 2023
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,401
10 Janvier 2023
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 57 x 87 x 3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 34.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,962
Il était une fois....
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,980
Place Within Reach 27.
Petr Strnad
Painting - 50.8 x 40.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20 x 15.9 x 0 inch
$348
La cerisiers en fleur
Charlotte Pivard
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$168
Sans titre - Les Dieux aussi ont parfois du chagrin
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,484
Ma colère brûle tout - Les Dieux aussi…
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,484
Bosque en diagonal
Manuel Perez
Painting - 115 x 215 x 0.2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 84.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,372
Self-Portrait 24.67
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$336
Tulip regenerations
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
White Still
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Erotic Maniac
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Three dry pink-orange roses
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Venice
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Océan 23011
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$873
Big bang sur papier 19
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$471
Big bang sur papier 28
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$471
Big bang sur papier 27
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$471
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?