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January on the foreshore
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 2 inch
£3,466
Rain and sun
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,199
Gage de fraicheur
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,466
A contre courant
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 105 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch
£3,733
Insouciance No War
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 50 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
£3,199
Liberté chérie
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 110 x 82 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 32.3 x 1.2 inch
£3,199
Sphères convoitées
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£3,733
"Transition" abstrait acrylique résine sur lin 100x100cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,733
Un frais printemps
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,555
"Nostalgie" abstrait acrylique collage oxydation sur lin 120x120cm 2020
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,933
"Underground Railway" abstrait acrylique oxydation sur lin 116x81cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 116 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,466
"Atmosphere" abstrait acrylique mortier sur lin 100x120cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,666
"L'Air iodé de Roscoff" abstrait collage oxydation sur lin 100x80cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,933
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
Abstract landscape-XL
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£622
The depths of the soul
Emily Starck
Painting - 97 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
£2,577
The colors of happiness
Emily Starck
Painting - 105 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,488
The moment you put the bla bla on it, it detroys the whole thing
Emily Starck
Painting - 125 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£3,821
Alice
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Dialogue de sourds
Antony Squizzato
Painting - 49 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,138
Perroquet des étoiles
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£222
Drab days and Coloured Minds #2
Giò Schiano
Sculpture - 51 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
£791
Ascensionnel
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£587
Abstraction géométrique turquoise
Dam Domido
Painting - 95 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£2,577
Anything you lose comes round in a different form
Tracey Adams
Painting - 122 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0 inch
£6,800
With All My Flowering Heart (A Complete Set)
Yayoi Kusama
Design - 78.7 x 20.3 x 1 cm Design - 31 x 8 x 0.4 inch
£2,322
Plage des Catalans Marseille
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
£444
REF 8-24 - Composition n° 57
Jeanne
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£880
Figura su ezechiele
Davide Ricchetti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,733
Mes petits bonheurs B
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£5,332
Color your love (Réhaussé / Hand-embellished)
Onemizer
Print - 60.96 x 60.96 x 2 cm Print - 24 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
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?