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Sunshine on My Mind
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€800
Summer jazz-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.3 x 0.2 inch
€480
Roses in a blue vase
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 62 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Vitruvian Woman
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€13,000
Echapper - série Composition abstraite
Claire de Noinville
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€140
REF 54 -17 - Composition n° 63
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 48-17 - Composition n° 66
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 61-17 - Composition n° 61
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 58-17 - Composition n° 62
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 53-17 - Composition n° 64
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 52-17 - Composition n° 65
Jeanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.5 inch
€150
REF 17-19 - Composition florale
Jeanne
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
€350
REF 15-24 - Composition n° 60
Jeanne
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
€350
Let's cultivate our weirdness
Emily Starck
Painting - 60 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 21.3 x 0 inch
€1,300
Flowers in White Pitcher
Nicole Daniah Sidonie
Painting - 36.1 x 36.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
€674
Window view 13 - Ardent desir
Low Bros
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€9,400
Window view 12 - Yass queen
Low Bros
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
Window view 10 sunday mourning
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,300
Window view 07 - Melancholia
Low Bros
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€8,600
Love angel (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Love angel (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Penis power (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Heart power (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
Love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Me and you (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
Symphonie
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€220
Finale
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€275
Allegro
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€190
Rêve
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€275
Embrasement
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€190
La fusée érotique (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€49
Vertigineuse Idylle
Brice Mounier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 11 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 4.3 inch
€5,500
Haring in love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
En rêvant de Picasso (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Domestic yellows I
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.4 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
€575
Esercizio su les fleurs de iris di mucha
Davide Ricchetti
Painting - 56 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
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?