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During the village festival
Nguyen Minh Nam
Painting - 160 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$14,984
12-21 - L'Energie des couleurs
Jeanne
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Mouvement texture / Rouge Violet
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.6 inch
$68
Petit éclat de lueur marron
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$68
Éclat violet bleu
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$226
Végétation florale multicolore
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$339
Food
Tina Loiodice
Fine Art Drawings - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$452
Lever du jour à Manhattan
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,244
Tempête sous un crâne
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 80 x 79 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.1 x 1.8 inch
$1,470
Emotional memory from les îles canaries
Joanna Raad
Painting - 16 x 11 cm Painting - 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$396
Le coq qui mange la pastèque n'aime pas les pets du renard
Philippe Jacq
Painting - 50 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,280
Fluide rose orange iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$68
Fluide bleu clair iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$68
NYC
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$181
Landscaping on jazz-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$181
Matrice spirituelle
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$192
Texture couteau blanc orange violette
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 50 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$102
Texture couteau blanc jaune rose
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 50 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$102
Texture couteau blanc jaune rouge
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 50 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$102
Postcard From Easy Street
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 48.3 x 100.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 39.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
Coucher de soleil Ref BDNW10731
Jacques Poncet
Painting - 81 x 100 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 inch
$3,958
Popeye and Olivia - v.B
Asnidy Kiarholi
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$452
Landscaping CXCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$322
Sourire pour tous
La Fabrique du Sourire
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 inch
$283
Rêve abyssal - Abyssal dream
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 66 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 26 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,830
Les objets visuels sont des touts
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 43 x 43 x 2 cm Painting - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
REF 47-15 - Couleurs en fête
Jeanne
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
REF 2-19 - Explosion de lumière
Jeanne
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,036
REF 17-17 - Un cadeau pour toi
Jeanne
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$780
REF 33-17 - Splendeur volcanique
Jeanne
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$622
Tropical mini N°2
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 15 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$396 $356
Ref 22-18 - Composition n° 27
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,244
Compositions in Yellow and Blue 2
Marian Williams
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,336
Eléments d'âme en flottement 6
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$565
Lishma 3
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 89 x 125 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 49.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,375
A Feather in Your Hat
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 78.7 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Inside, Outside, the Others
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 89 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,947
Landscaping-CXLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$147
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?