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![Painting, Abnégation, Alain Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193420_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstrait DSC 1807, Thomas Danel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213383_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dualité, Françoise Dugourd-Caput](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212129_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rouget d'origine noble dorée, Robert Combas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207024_1_grid.jpg)
Rouget d'origine noble dorée
Robert Combas
Painting - 46.5 x 34 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 13.4 x 1 inch
$32,435
![Print, MP 152 - Glauque, Bram van Velde](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1985004_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les plus petites choses que nous voulions, la conversation, quelque temps plus tard, Lourdes Ral](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213272_1_grid.jpg)
Les plus petites choses que nous voulions, la conversation, quelque temps plus tard
Lourdes Ral
Painting - 35 x 27 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 1.6 inch
$280
![Painting, Golden Abstract, Samvel Atasunts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209481_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paradise, Eric Munsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208545_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Panther, Jo Di Bona](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Méduse, Yu Fu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204759_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vibrant Nirvana, Iryna Bondar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199893_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Why not ?, Shanon Bee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150235_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Accolade sur les toits parisiens, M.Chat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214835_1_grid.jpg)
Accolade sur les toits parisiens
M.Chat
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$6,152 $5,536
![Painting, Awakening, Anna Selina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199807_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Workday Conversations, Gegham Hunanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214442_1_grid.jpg)
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
![Painting, H27, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213027_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vitalité, Catherine Pugeat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212647_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Julien Lebbihi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197721_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, To Dye or Not To Die. Drawings From the covid diaries series, Megha Joshi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215758_1_grid.jpg)
To Dye or Not To Die. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
![Painting, Blue, Fabio Purino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Wanderer (el andariego), Sonia Domenech](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214432_1_grid.jpg)
The Wanderer (el andariego)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Léopard, Martin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213616_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Alalia 13, Thierry Corpet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209128_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Avec moi-même - Planche 8, Sonia Delaunay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215259_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Et la nuit déjà scintille, Geraldine Bandiziol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213389_1_grid.jpg)
Et la nuit déjà scintille
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
![Painting, Amnis (Fracture X), Greg Bryce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212097_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fantomatique, Jean-Marc Hunt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216280_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The man who run away from the Time, Zhivko Mutafchiev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215644_1_grid.jpg)
The man who run away from the Time
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Kaleidoscope, Shake](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212381_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bateaux de pêcheurs à Positano, avril, Alexei Lantsev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207081_1_grid.jpg)
Bateaux de pêcheurs à Positano, avril
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Lumière, Yichao Sun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192527_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Teddy (Nounours), Socrate](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198745_1_grid.jpg)
Teddy (Nounours)
Socrate
Sculpture - 50 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$1,622 $1,460
![Painting, It's Getting Kind of Hectic, Emma Harrison](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190749_1_grid.jpg)
It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,237 $2,013
![Painting, Deep inside 47, Larysa Uvarova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2074752_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Casual Constructivism #1. From The Abstraction on Kraft Experiments Series, Almo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214618_1_grid.jpg)
Casual Constructivism #1. From The Abstraction on Kraft Experiments Series
Almo
Painting - 95 x 65 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
![Painting, Mélange de Couleurs, Flog](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214504_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La sieste - Nap in a 70's room, Léa Dedieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189877_1_grid.jpg)
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
![Photography, 4 – Pi 55 concentrique vert herbe – Tirage photographique argentique, Philippe Leveau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216368_1_grid.jpg)
4 – Pi 55 concentrique vert herbe – Tirage photographique argentique
Philippe Leveau
Photography - 23 x 23 x 0.2 cm Photography - 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
$134
![Painting, Day & Night 4, Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215814_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le vaisseau, Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208397_1_grid.jpg)
Le vaisseau
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,237
![Painting, Au fil de l’eau, Agnès Tiollier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190918_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abundancia, Florentina Fischer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210836_1_grid.jpg)
Abundancia
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,342 $1,181
![Painting, Sunset Bliss, Nick Vivian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195663_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Autumn colors, Mitko Dimitrov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215668_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Stopped time I, Nora Ampova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209212_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les arbres 01.03.24, Laurent Bouro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189462_1_grid.jpg)
Les arbres 01.03.24
Laurent Bouro
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,908
![Painting, Play & Diversity 17, Lucie Jirku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168047_1_grid.jpg)
Play & Diversity 17
Lucie Jirku
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,480
![Painting, Euforia 5, Mercedes Lagunas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216440_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jacques-Prince Okoko - Format M, Arnaud Baumann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212480_1_grid.jpg)
Jacques-Prince Okoko - Format M
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Trees of colour, Linda Collins Lamb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865514_1_grid.jpg)
Trees of colour
Linda Collins Lamb
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,148
![Painting, Cuba Libre, Cosmos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200091_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Into the Light, Fusako Ekuni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210322_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'Attente du Jour Prochain, Hugo Pondz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215293_1_grid.jpg)
L'Attente du Jour Prochain
Hugo Pondz
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$15,658
![Painting, Sun and Flowers, Diane Bellier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183175_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pyatnitsa-Plot. Twilight, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212022_1_grid.jpg)
Pyatnitsa-Plot. Twilight
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 15 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Seul dans ce monde de... - série animaux marins fantaisistes, Alain Arnouil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190399_1_grid.jpg)
Seul dans ce monde de... - série animaux marins fantaisistes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$979
![Painting, Winter green, Bill Stone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2037819_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIV, Dorine van der Ploeg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215895_1_grid.jpg)
Dieppe Series 2.0 / XIV
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$358
![Painting, Fluidité 1123, Arnaud Dromigny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213682_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape 89, Li Dongfeng](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193418_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Just The 2 Of Us X, Paul Akiiki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172642_1_grid.jpg)
Just The 2 Of Us X
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
![Painting, The Blue Twin, Samir Tamari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211775_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, OUTSIDE MY WINDOW, Lenta Markevich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208849_1_grid.jpg)
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
Lenta Markevich
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Sexycat, Flu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189955_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La souffleuse de rêves, Els Knockaert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214767_1_grid.jpg)
La souffleuse de rêves
Els Knockaert
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$973
![Painting, Voyages en Arcadie N°122, Gilbert Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213314_1_grid.jpg)
Voyages en Arcadie N°122
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,454
![Sculpture, Les signes de l'âme, Hyacinthe Ouattara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216039_1_grid.jpg)
Les signes de l'âme
Hyacinthe Ouattara
Sculpture - 185 x 84 x 7 cm Sculpture - 72.8 x 33.1 x 2.8 inch
$8,388
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean Sellier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190783_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Noname 70.50 #C248, Stéphane Rime](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214855_1_grid.jpg)
Noname 70.50 #C248
Stéphane Rime
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$157
![Painting, Bain sylvestre, Sange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214500_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Sonia Delaunay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192220_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Clarissa, Morena MoBe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218154_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un tableau ne vit que ..., Mijo 13](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217333_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Steve, Capocci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215845_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Humeur orange, SP](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214509_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amarylis rouge, Virginie Cadoret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212675_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Natural Flow Series n13. From the Natural Flow series, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212665_1_grid.jpg)
Natural Flow Series n13. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 68.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
![Painting, Drôle d'animal (1), Théo Le Franc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209308_1_grid.jpg)
Drôle d'animal (1)
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,218
![Painting, Spring colors, Andrei Sitsko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207852_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La vague, Thibault Laget-Ro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216123_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fragmentation, Christine Marie Nobre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212996_1_grid.jpg)
Fragmentation
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$638
![Painting, Bis, Hervé Souffi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212021_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Avp_1157, Alex Voinea](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210158_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paysage abstrait I, Meijuan Yu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209043_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Asia lithographie originale, édition limitée, Tony Soulié](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191225_1_grid.jpg)
Asia lithographie originale, édition limitée
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Le bord de l'étang, au printemps, Dam Domido](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215519_1_grid.jpg)
Le bord de l'étang, au printemps
Dam Domido
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.01 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Shoreditch 1&2, Yoann Bonneville (YBA)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208788_1_grid.jpg)
Shoreditch 1&2
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 82 x 43 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 16.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Semainier 3, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198401_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vitale, Keng Wai Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186715_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lilac and Pears, Ania Pieniazek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183249_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Medra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Limit, The Catman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192287_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bilma, Marta Aguirre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217392_1_grid.jpg)
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?