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Variation d'un paysage 3
Sophie André
Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
£427 £363
Les jours bleus (2) - Portrait de famille
Mia
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£3,555
Still life - flowers -5 (1) (1)
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 20 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
£82 £70
Espace de l'eau
Sophie André
Painting - 34 x 34 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 0.2 inch
£267 £227
Variation d'un paysage 4
Sophie André
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
£355 £302
Le Chant des arbres
Sophie André
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£311 £265
Chevauchée Grecque
Clotilde Hulin-Quarez
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,511
Yo quiero... Yo quiero
Carmen Cañadas
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£2,733 £2,460
#501 Queen Angelfish portrait
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£355
Art de rue n°14
Bertram Trabhardt-Oaz
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Retour du printemps
Yvan Philmer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,417
Graffiti Heart - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Painting - 70 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
£4,177
Racines miraculeuses haïtiennes
Christophe Mert
Painting - 91 x 78 cm Painting - 35.8 x 30.7 inch
£3,555
Autumn’s Arrival
Johanne Brouillette
Painting - 91 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
TerritorioDesconocido 1
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 108 x 108 x 4 cm Painting - 42.5 x 42.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,333 £1,200
Untitled
Emilio Bielsa
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£667
Promenade romantique
Corinne Foucouin
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£711
Fest symphony
Dimitar Mitov - Komshin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,422
Living in third person #13
Max Ruebensal
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.7 inch
£1,756
Serie lethal harmony E13
Manolo Oyonarte
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,324
Summer Suite (Red with Gold IV)
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Print - 54.6 x 54.6 cm Print - 21.5 x 21.5 inch
£2,073
Fashion
Karl Lagerfeld
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£7,998
Fields of color 02
Marike Koot
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
£1,173
In black frame
Pedro Elias Barreta
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,078
San Pedro Mártir, Baja California
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£950
Cerro de la Mata
Saúl Rodríguez Montante Méndez
Painting - 30 x 46 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£951
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?