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Crimson Adornment
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 99.1 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 30 x 1 inch
£1,120 £1,008
Blue rosa abstraction, Very peri color abstract original wall art
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,685
God Particle, Butterfly Effect
Yunior Marino
Painting - 149.9 x 179.8 x 1 cm Painting - 59 x 70.8 x 0.4 inch
£4,646
Daphné - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£559
Kolwitzia - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£559
Corylus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£559
Magie colorée 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
£403
Les racines de la nuit
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,128
Color falls gently
Christian Valentine
Painting - 91.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 12 x 2 inch
£581
Ouverture d’esprit 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
£358
Collapse jaune - Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£609
Early sunrise, Like a promise of...
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£877
Changing destinies
Christian Valentine
Painting - 101.6 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 2 inch
£664
Time begins again
Christian Valentine
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 1 inch
£431
Couleur dripping 4 - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£582
Agua en el humo y cielo en el fuego, (Polyptych)
Yunior Marino
Painting - 245.9 x 424.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 96.8 x 167.3 x 1 inch
£9,956
Waves and Particles
Yunior Marino
Painting - 167.6 x 190.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 66 x 75 x 0.3 inch
£5,310
Sandlewood Cresent
George Pinder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
£3,660
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Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
£1,338
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£895
La vie en effervescence
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
£940
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?