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Take Me Out of the Blue and Beyond
Ellen Brook
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,329
Take Me Out of the Blue, Dear
Ellen Brook
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,329
The Twilight Garden
Cynthia Ligeros
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,721
Between The Shadows
Cynthia Ligeros
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,019
Storm Moon Rising
Cynthia Ligeros
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,130
Fleur de Nostalgie (Flower of Longing)
Cynthia Ligeros
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,310
Terra Mystica no. 6621
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 71.1 x 198.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 78 x 1 inch
€1,592
Beyond the sea no.17820
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 71.1 x 198.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 78 x 1 inch
€1,581
Fresh Paint
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Dreams per cm3 - 5
Nora Ampova
Painting - 10 x 10 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
€240 €216
Dreams per cm3 - 2
Nora Ampova
Painting - 10 x 10 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
€180 €162
Dreams per cm3 - 1
Nora Ampova
Painting - 10 x 10 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
€180 €162
Points rouge et vert
Antoni Clavé
Print - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
€2,200 €1,980
XXL Solace of Dawn
Susan Wooler
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,239
XXL Tranquil Shores
Susan Wooler
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,264
Life in Colors 72
Veronica Vilsan
Painting - 58.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 23 x 60 x 2 inch
€1,024
Take Me Out of the Blue #12
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
€888
Take Me Out of the Blue (10)
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
€897
Take Me Out of the Blue Today
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
€897
Exuberance
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
€1,940
You'll never be mine 7
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
€1,853
Better mercutio 9
Robert Langley
Painting - 182.9 x 147.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 72 x 58 x 0.1 inch
€776
Noche y día / Night and Day
Luis Prada
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Droits de l'Homme
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 34 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 13.4 inch
€7,200
Snoopy - I Love My Job (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€2,500
Bugs Bunny (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
€2,500
Evenings Embrace
Suzanne Vaughen
Painting - 50.8 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,164
Harmony Motel, Twentynine Palms, California
Richard Heeps
Photography - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Instant de vie...
Roseline Al Oumami
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Study in Green & Blue, Ahangama
Edmund Sumner
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€2,713
L'Huile_en_Gros_Plan_02
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€990
L'Huile_en_Gros_Plan_01
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€990
L'huile en Gros Plan_010
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,290
Chakra 3
Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Chakra 1
Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Glimpse of Sunset
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
1979 Red Abstraction Rouge
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 40 x 50 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€1,450
1977 Green Abstraction verte
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 30 x 37 cm Painting - 11.8 x 14.6 inch
€1,940
1978 Green Abstraction verte
Jean-Pierre Verdeille
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,950
Kid and the Elephants
Cinzia Hochstrasser
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,750
River of Soul
Cinzia Hochstrasser
Painting - 30 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
Elephant & People
Cinzia Hochstrasser
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Sunset in the Desert
Cinzia Hochstrasser
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
View into the Sunset
Cinzia Hochstrasser
Painting - 56 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 22 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
Bohemian Rhapsody in Guernica
Yohan Storti
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
Bougainvillier II
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Generational feeling 25
David Murcia
Painting - 195 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
€7,550
Look at this beauty, honey
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Stepping out, Reasons of life
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 110 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
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?