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.
Serhio Lichi
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,431
Cintia García
Fine Art Drawings . 150.9 x 147.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 59.4 x 58.1 x 0.1 inch
CHF 2,523
Clara Crespin
Fine Art Drawings . 77 x 65 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 30.3 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
CHF 867
Jérémy Morin
Fine Art Drawings . 65 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,167
Andrea Lein
Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,348
Frédéric Bourret
Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,156
Cintia García
Fine Art Drawings . 148.1 x 147.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 58.3 x 57.9 x 0.1 inch
CHF 2,523
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Fine Art Drawings . 55 x 55 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 21.7 x 21.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,637
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Fine Art Drawings . 27.9 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 8 x 0.1 inch
CHF 2,651
Jérémy Morin
Fine Art Drawings . 65 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,167
Jean-Claude Coutaz
Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
CHF 1,018
Barthélémy Grossmann
Fine Art Drawings . 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 2,380
Serhio Lichi
Fine Art Drawings . 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 1,118
Geneviève Seillé
Fine Art Drawings . 119 x 90 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 46.9 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
CHF 3,756
