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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, Carré rouge, Petar Kras

Petar Kras

Painting . 80 x 71 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 28 x 1.2 inch

€3,000

Fine Art Drawings, Three little birds, Sely

Sely

Fine Art Drawings . 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch

€1,200

Painting, Slam Book, Aatmica Ojha

Aatmica Ojha

Painting . 85 x 60 x 1 cm Painting . 33.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch

€400

Painting, Feeling 1, Mireille Lopez

Mireille Lopez

Painting . 100 x 100 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 inch

€3,500

Painting, Abstrait-7, Théo Le Franc

Théo Le Franc

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

€350

Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Matthieu Dorval

Matthieu Dorval

Fine Art Drawings . 40 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 15.7 x 12.2 x 0 inch

€750

Painting, A2609, Thierry Benzaid

Thierry Benzaid

Painting . 18 x 26 x 1 cm Painting . 7.1 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch

€163

Fine Art Drawings, Bear, Philippe Dias

Philippe Dias

Fine Art Drawings . 77 x 58 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 30.3 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch

€500

Painting, Souvenir, Nawel Aubert

Nawel Aubert

Painting . 40 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 1 inch

€250

Photography, L'Abat-jour, Paul Marnef

Paul Marnef

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

€640

Painting, Voir, Kristina Viera Wolf

Kristina Viera Wolf

Painting . 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

€600

Painting, A walk, Stanislav Bojankov

Stanislav Bojankov

Painting . 22 x 15 x 0.1 cm Painting . 8.7 x 5.9 x 0 inch

€100 €90

Painting, RE 23, Mark Hellbusch

Mark Hellbusch

Painting . 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€490

Painting, Sincroplastia, Alec Franco

Alec Franco

Painting . 149.9 x 199.9 x 0.3 cm Painting . 59 x 78.7 x 0.1 inch

€7,888