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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
Mr je sais tout
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 134.6 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 53 x 40 x 2 inch
£24,050
Friends watching TV
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 139.7 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 inch
£22,723
I can hear you
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 2 inch
£40,636
The fishing contest
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
£15,757
French School Blue Kurt Cobain
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,511
Tudo Bem - In the Wood Planks
Nacks
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.8 inch
£711
The currency: 6274. nobody should hear it
Damien Hirst
Painting - 21.5 x 30 cm Painting - 8.5 x 11.8 inch
£16,441
Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£800
Bring it back
João Almeida (xUEkA)
Painting - 146 x 114 x 1.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.6 inch
£2,888
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Ecriture - rapprocher les cultures
Gabriella Moussette
Print - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£249
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
City Mini Break
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£3,950
Generational feelings 20
David Murcia
Painting - 195 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£6,108
Essence of creation (1)
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
£290
Scarlet Reflections
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£166
Inspiration Klimt - Arbre de vie
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 89 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,191
Helios. Neon Light Box. Wall Sculpture
Paloma Castello
Sculpture - 61 x 46 x 15 cm Sculpture - 24 x 18.1 x 5.9 inch
£1,244
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?