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La ferme Caporal
Edna De Araraquara
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,144
Color your life (paillette version)
Jean Jam
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,251
Tren misterioso, llegué tarde
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£3,156
Forever smile
Luciano Di Concetto
Painting - 150 x 150 x 7 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2.8 inch
£11,165
Danse des flamants roses
Jean-Jacques Abieniste
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
£595
Photograms 2
Riccardo di Cosmo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,099 £1,679
Sehirde kurulan hayaller - Rêves dans la ville
Amphora
Painting - 29 x 42 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 inch
£357
Contact color relief
Aurélie Trabaud
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 4.2 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 1.7 inch
£2,858
Alaukik saundarya (Divine beauty)
Richa Dave
Painting - 61 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
£1,608
Au fond du vallon
Angela Vertsoni
Painting - 115 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,394
Abstraction Rouge Vif pour BRANCUSI 1956 Vivid Red Abstraction for BRANCUSI
Alexandre Istrati
Painting - 28 x 23 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11 x 9.1 x 0.6 inch
£2,635
Blue, pink and orange
The Big Fat Boy
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£447
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Lounys
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,456
Because we need colors 2
Amor de Agua
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
£107
Corpuscule on apricot
Vuokko Takala - Schreib
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,528
All Shook Up
Terrece Beesley
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0.5 inch
£1,485
Atelier bleu rouge
Jean-Claude Libert
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
£2,903
Where money grows on trees
Therese Lydia Joseph
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 inch
£318
Can you keep a secret
Marisol Evora
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
£10,857
Ecorce rouge
Rodolphe Martinez
Photography - 141 x 105 x 0.02 cm Photography - 55.5 x 41.3 x 0 inch
£2,501
Looking past the Magnolia Tree
Ken Done
Painting - 121 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 47.6 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
£10,000
Argnac - Composition abstraite
Murielle Vallot dite MucheArt
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£201
Attraction
Vincent Bargis M7
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 1 inch
£5,225
Paysage lacustre automnal
Arthur Amez-Droz
Painting - 65.2 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£705
Composition in Blue
Andrei Mikhailovich Lanskoy
Print - 94 x 65 x 0.1 cm Print - 37 x 25.6 x 0 inch
£357
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?