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Renaissance of Dawn
Vasil Vasilev-Vaso
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,887
Nighty
Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec
Painting - 80 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,493
The blue one
Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
£1,602
Tomorrow's Painted Desert
Peter Markus Jentes
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£2,417
El sonido del agua
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£2,166
Retreat to the mountains
Nick Warren
Painting - 92 x 155 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 61 x 1.4 inch
£2,022
Everything changed in absolute silence
Ramonn Vieitez
Painting - 59.9 x 59.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
£2,108
Poétiques du paysage 95
Carole Bressan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£944
127 The Glimts of Eternity
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
£7,189
Milky Morning
Asya Feoktistova
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
£8,155
High Tops, acrylic painting
Kathleen Ney
Painting - 60.3 x 45.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.75 x 17.75 x 0.1 inch
£1,601
De l´Au-Delà N.23 (Collection Abstract)
Stéphane Dousdebes
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,516
Sunny Days - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£917
Acoltando Il Sole
Mattia Novello
Painting - 226.1 x 147.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 89 x 58 x 2 inch
£12,650
Clair-obscur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
I've Dreamed 45
Soos Roxana Gabriela
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
£987
Force of nature
Nigel Forbes Moores
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,734
Dans les profondeurs
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 73 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£890
J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,797
Let'me jump in your game #3
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,617
Universal language
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£966
Street art is back
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,336
Self portrait with between clock and bed
Gerard Boersma
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
£1,661
Globos de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 100 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,258 £944
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An Angel Passes By
Thierry Corpet
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
£1,348
Aux alentours d'Aix en Provence
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,426
Enlightenment,
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 133.4 x 133.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 52.5 x 52.5 x 0.2 inch
£1,366
Colors Painting for Sale
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?