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Bugs Bunny (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,222
Mowgli & Bagheera (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,222
Félix (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,222
The angel wing
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
£2,222
Gypsy Skirt Rounded in Amsterdam 2
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£889
Éclosions Géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
£8,443
Eclosions géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
£8,443
Spirit of Forest 47560
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 29.3 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.5 x 14 x 0 inch
£1,422
Éclosions géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£8,443
Io di notte io di giorno
Mattia Novello
Painting - 279.4 x 416.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 110 x 164 x 2 inch
£14,098
Happiness # - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£720
Kaléidoscope
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 1.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.6 inch
£2,311
Fraîches comme le printemps
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 122 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,451
Chocolate Factory & Crazy Sunset
Marion Sagon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,821
Atmosphère
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,311
Harmonie et plaisir
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,577
Stereotypes. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 48.3 x 36.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19 x 14.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,659
Untitled n°602 Abstract October 19 with Black
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
£4,177 £3,550
Champagne à gogo
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,377
Lightness of being
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,502
Cheerful cascade of summer flowers
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,502
Wanna have some fun?
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,409
Rêve bleu
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,577
Charme au féminin
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,377
Cry for the sun over the world
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,715
Champagne pour Madame
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,577
Does My Happiness Upset you ?!
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,222
Floral - Elixir series on paper III
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
£1,360
Floral Elixir series on paper II
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
£1,360
Floral Elixir series on paper I
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
£1,360
Complimentary Connection
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
£1,569
The path continues
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 118 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,641
Red Candle In The Dark
Roanne .
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
£1,431
Dysfunctional Yet Romantic
Roanne .
Painting - 51.8 x 51.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20.4 x 20.4 x 1.5 inch
£1,431
Arlequin et ses convives
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
£3,110
Drink up some Hard Cocktails
Roanne .
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
£1,573
Séduction 1
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,311
Arlequine - Arlequins
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,479
Que du bonheur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
£1,911
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?