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A Little Flower Painting : Yellow, White, and Purple Flowers
Takashi Murakami
Print - 55 x 44 cm Print - 21.7 x 17.3 inch
$2,956
Le bassin exotique
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,046
My soul sees only thy soul its own
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,638
Time to Breathe
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,501
Dreaming of Palm Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,501
Through the Pale Twilit Meadows
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,206
Among the Flowers Face to face with the sky
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 125 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,206
Rivers and Mountains
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,842
The Time Curve #5
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,705
Towards East, Breaking Dawn
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 46.5 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.3 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,364
Morning (Sky and Sea)
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,705
Introportrait à la nuit
David Jamin
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,774
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,274
Variations sur l'introportrait
David Jamin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,865
Lobster dinner at the Carlyle
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Urban cieli di polvere e ferro
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,615
Urban cieli d'Indocina oro nero
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.2 inch
$2,615
Il fait chaud (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 37 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.6 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,046
Moving like she’s got diamonds
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 110 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
$6,232
Smiley peace and love
Rémy Demestre
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$284
Positive Energy XL 13
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,831
Yellow Red Energy XL 5
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,717
Le compte est bon
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,728
Je suis fatigué patron
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,705
Flowarh$ - II (A) - Flowers - Les fleurs - Fleur
Mr Brainwash
Print - 91.4 x 91.4 cm Print - 36 x 36 inch
$5,115
All you need is love
Yohan Storti
Painting - 50 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Paralleled Reflections
Candice Grant
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$950
Luminous Moments
Candice Grant
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 0.75 inch
$1,030
An Energetic Impression
Candice Grant
Painting - 81.3 x 66 x 1.9 cm Painting - 32 x 26 x 0.75 inch
$1,050
The Ever Shifting Mood
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,050
Don't Hide Your Beauty
Candice Grant
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$1,150
Experiencing an Altered Reality
Candice Grant
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$940
True stories of the Middle East
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 168 x 192 x 5 cm Painting - 66.1 x 75.6 x 2 inch
$10,799
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?