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Still life with cherries
Simona Tsvetkova
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£782
Dans le Bleu qui Pétille
Sophie Duplain
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£755
La petite fille aux cheveux bleus
Ninu Art
Painting - 76 x 58 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.8 x 1 inch
£1,777
Entre Ciel et Terre
Sophie Duplain
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
£1,466 £1,173
La Mécanique des Arbres
Sophie Duplain
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,244
Postcard From Tug
Matthew Dibble
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 2 inch
£4,022
The Flow of Blue (diptych)
Maria Bacha
Painting - 89.9 x 180.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
£4,036
Moments of Transparency
Maria Bacha
Painting - 99.8 x 99.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 39.3 x 39.3 x 1.5 inch
£4,032
Floating Allegories
Maria Bacha
Painting - 99.8 x 99.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 39.3 x 39.3 x 1.5 inch
£4,040
Entering the hardcore
Maria Bacha
Painting - 99.8 x 99.8 x 3 cm Painting - 39.3 x 39.3 x 1.2 inch
£2,355
Turn your light on I
Maria Bacha
Painting - 152.4 x 99.8 x 3 cm Painting - 60 x 39.3 x 1.2 inch
£3,802
Turn your light on II
Maria Bacha
Painting - 152.4 x 99.8 x 3 cm Painting - 60 x 39.3 x 1.2 inch
£3,802
Geometrical V
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 149.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
£1,924
Musical inspiration
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,505
Return to Ithaca
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 119.4 x 119.4 x 2 cm Painting - 47 x 47 x 0.8 inch
£2,173
Night in Paris
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 130 x 162.6 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 64 x 1.2 inch
£2,322
Impact on pink
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 162.6 x 114.3 x 3 cm Painting - 64 x 45 x 1.2 inch
£2,198
Rochers dans les bois
Patrick Marie
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,431
Deux enfants à la plage
Patrick Marie
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,431
"L'élégance des arbres en hiver" abstrait acrylique collage poudre de marbre châssis lin l92x65cm 2020
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,600
King Solomon sitting in Jerusalem
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
£3,466
Peau de mur 20
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,733
Green Edition No. 12
Doris Marten
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
Bosc de guspirus en color
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 146 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.5 x 1.4 inch
£1,546
Alien invasion
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 165.1 x 165.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 inch
£23,967
Playing cowboys
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 165.1 x 165.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 inch
£23,967
Against each other
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 2 inch
£35,826
Industrial mindset
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 84 x 2 inch
£20,650
Riot on Capitol hill
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
£18,908
Touche en plein bleu
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
£15,757
Appart from earth
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 84 x 2 inch
£24,962
Lets take the animals into the night
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 inch
£23,552
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?