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Les Ecrits Oubliés
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£692
Imaginaire
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,671
Steel
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 55 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
£667
Fleurs sur fond jaune indien
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 114 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,222
Antic Evolution 23012
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£692
28 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,844
Terre de printemps
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
£692
Bateau à Istanbul et pêcheurs. Matin
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,666
Terre d'hiver
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£692
S'7 dripping - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Dripping SFDP1 - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 80 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
£889
Abondance III
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 60 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
£640
Force of nature (ii)
Nigel Forbes Moores
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,715
Thriving in the Darkness
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
£498
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£15,997
Symphonie colorée 1
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 20 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
£462
29 mai 2021
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 100 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,955 £978
Bleu minéral - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,164
Bleu écriture - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,164
Music of the Countryside
Janice Toulouse
Painting - 40 x 55.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.9 x 1 inch
£444
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£302
Indian chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£6,830
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
£1,066
Marée basse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£4,977
Arbre au bord de la seine
Linda Clerget
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£889
Valse de printemps - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£800
La danse du papillon - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£800
Papillons d'eau - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,093
Papillons exotiques - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,093
Jeux d'Eole - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£738
Graff n°1400
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
£533
Le viel homme et la mer - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,671
Je pleure mes larmes intérieures - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,671
Le voyage de E.T - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,671
La forme de l'eau - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,671
Eclats d'amour - Abstraction
Marie-Louise Cervantes
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,222
Champ de lumière - Abstraction
Marie-Louise Cervantes
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,222
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?