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Camo 2.0 4322
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$9,094
Perhaps they live off the rocks around them 04
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,046
Perhaps they live off the rocks around them 03
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 103 x 72.8 x 3.5 cm Photography - 40.6 x 28.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,046
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (2)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$261
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (1)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$261
I.A 2 - Intelligence Artificielle
Carole Aurore
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$995
Damier fragmenté
Ghislaine Chapuis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,478
Les toits éclairés par la lune
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$682
Origen del Deseo-Buen Rollo II
Mari Ito
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,668
Temporal perception # 322
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Mnemonic codes 002
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 63.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$945
Cosmic consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,939
Colourful consciousness
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,935
Aurora Australis: The southern lights
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,179
Free spirit no. 2
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$964
Free spirit no. 21
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,209
Cosmic blizzard
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Flowers in the rain
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
No matter how long the winter...
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
Psychedelic sky
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Birds of a feather II
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
$1,946
Volcanic pulse
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 55.9 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$1,210
I do not rule my dreams, my dreams rule me
Takashi Murakami
Print - 66.6 x 56.6 cm Print - 26.2 x 22.3 inch
$4,115
Bambou
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$886
Golden view, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$5,800
Emotion in motion
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 100 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,705
Hana11_F72
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Hana02_2458
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Hana16_F5010
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Temporal Perception # 220 A
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$3,375
Mowgli & Baloo (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
Mowgli & Bagheera (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
Félix (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
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?