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Les jours bleus (2) - Portrait de famille
Mia
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
Coté docks 4
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$447 $402
L'eveil de la nature
Charles Carson
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 inch
$18,000
Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych
Charles Carson
Painting - 152.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 24 x 2 inch
$22,400
Imagination oceanique
Charles Carson
Painting - 61 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 72 x 2 inch
$26,800
L'éveil printanier
Charles Carson
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$35,200
Just rainy-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,842
Just rainy-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
Just rainy-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
Still life - flowers -5 (1) (1)
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 20 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$99 $85
Rainbow poppies flowers série Fleurs, Pavots, Tags et Graffitis
Aurélie Pfaadt LadyPoppies
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$3,572
Lotus or Movement to the Light
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 84 x 64 x 4 cm Painting - 33.1 x 25.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,791
Daddy don’t go
Joanna Raad
Fine Art Drawings - 20.2 x 19 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 7.5 inch
$468 $422
The clown
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,500 $4,675
Swallow
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,000 $5,100
Artist's memories
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,500 $6,375
A vibrant sunset
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 7 x 7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.2 inch
$432 $260
Espace de l'eau
Sophie André
Painting - 34 x 34 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 0.2 inch
$335 $285
Variation d'un paysage 4
Sophie André
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$447 $380
The cat
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,500 $4,675
Reconciliation
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350 $298
The beauty of sunset. 3 impasto oil paintings
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$8,372
Le Chant des arbres
Sophie André
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$391 $333
Period of Hibernation
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 102 x 132 x 1 cm Painting - 40.2 x 52 x 0.4 inch
$4,443 $2,666
Modern still life
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350 $298
Emotional memory from les îles canaries
Joanna Raad
Painting - 16 x 11 cm Painting - 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$396 $357
Abstraction, dans l’œil du cyclone
Catherine Clare
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$781 $703
Sketch 02
Sabine Klara Lindenstreich
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,020
In love
Sabine Klara Lindenstreich
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Ecorces de platane
Catherine Clare
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,126
Landscaping on Jazz-LVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$279 $251
Presentiment-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$179 $161
Landscaping on jazz-XCVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$513 $462
Still life with an orange tablecloth
Catherine Clare
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$837 $753
Monaco
Sabine Klara Lindenstreich
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$6,921
Style break #the Panther
Dominik Rutz
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$3,431
Nu allongé sur fond noir et rouge
Alain Bonnefoit
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.05 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$670
Les Carmencitas - série corps de femmes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$703
Beyond the curtain
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,000 $4,250
Memories
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,000 $5,100
Nu abstrait N°24
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 24.2 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$134 $121
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?