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Colored artworks

Color plays a fundamental role in contemporary creation as an element capable on its own of structuring a composition, generating emotion, or conveying an entire aesthetic discourse.

Long relegated to a secondary role behind form and drawing in the traditional hierarchy of the arts, it gradually gained autonomy throughout the twentieth century from Fauvist explorations of pure color to lyrical abstraction until it became, for some artists, the sole subject of the artwork.

Henri Matisse, whose cut-out paper works celebrate color in all its power and simplicity, Mark Rothko with his meditative fields of color, or the Op Art artists who explore optical vibrations between complementary hues, illustrate the diversity of approaches within a field that continues to fascinate contemporary artists.

In current artistic practice, color is explored through a wide range of registers—from vivid, saturated Pop Art–inspired palettes to subtle tonal variations and delicate gradients, as well as strong chromatic contrasts that structure pictorial or sculptural space. Whether applied in flat areas, layered glazes, bursts of material, or plays of light on reflective surfaces, color becomes a language in its own right, capable of expressing emotions such as joy, melancholy, energy, or contemplation.

On Artsper, this selection brings together works in which color plays a central role in composition, highlighting the enduring capacity of this fundamental element to generate visual experiences of inexhaustible richness and intensity.

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Painting, Stereophonic, Alain Churlaud

Alain Churlaud

Painting . 70 x 150 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch

€2,800

Painting, Portrait, Aleksandr Ilichev

Aleksandr Ilichev

Painting . 140 x 180 x 3 cm Painting . 55.1 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch

€8,600

Painting, Inexistence, Sandra Bédu

Sandra Bédu

Painting . 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€240

Painting, Forever loved, Lyx

Lyx

Painting . 75 x 56 cm Painting . 29.5 x 22 inch

€450

Painting, Soft gravity, Dantès

Dantès

Painting . 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€50

Painting, Mr.Bombmastik, Guti

Guti

Painting . 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch

€490

Painting, Silent joy, Dantès

Dantès

Painting . 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€50

Painting, Slow motion, Dantès

Dantès

Painting . 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€50

Painting, Like a dream, Dantès

Dantès

Painting . 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€50

Painting, Orbita Set, Fredy Saul Serrano

Fredy Saul Serrano

Painting . 119.9 x 159.5 x 3.8 cm Painting . 47.2 x 62.8 x 1.5 inch

€7,424

Fine Art Drawings, Patchwork #10, Kateryna Malomuzh

Kateryna Malomuzh

Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€241 €217

Painting, Orizzonte, Lorena Fonsato

Lorena Fonsato

Painting . 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€380

Painting, Horus, André Bielen

André Bielen

Painting . 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€1,900

Painting, Lointain, Anne Bironneau

Anne Bironneau

Painting . 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€780

Painting, Axis, Sandrine Hartmann

Sandrine Hartmann

Painting . 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch

€540

Print, Là-Bas, Joël Chasseriau

Joël Chasseriau

Print . 100 x 100 x 2 cm Print . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€1,260

Photography, Oz colors, Nicolas Issaly

Nicolas Issaly

Photography . 70 x 105 x 3 cm Photography . 27.6 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch

€2,560

Painting, Lichen, Alain Churlaud

Alain Churlaud

Painting . 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

€1,500

Painting, Blue bird, Svetlana Saratova

Svetlana Saratova

Painting . 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch

€436

Painting, Fissures, Eric Doisy

Eric Doisy

Painting . 125 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 49.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€1,750