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Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
Vivid Poppies in Bloom
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$450
Peace and hope (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Estivale - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,194
Fraicheur - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,194
Féminin n°3 - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,194
Féminin n°6 - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,194
Jaipur - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,473
Féminin n°5 - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,473
Féminin n°7 - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,473
Marine abstraite 2024-48
Fred Boutet
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$670
Paysage abstrait III
Cécile Girard
Painting - 43 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,340 $1,206
Retrato gris en fondo azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 215 x 220 x 2 cm Painting - 84.6 x 86.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,233
Red Dress with Orange Shawl
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$950
Poisson Arlequin
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 92 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Poissons chirurgiens
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 101 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$1,328
Queen angel facing
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,049
French angel and corals
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 53 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Love angel (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Interior of a café
Susana Mata
Painting - 75 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,009 $1,808
Fancy Odds XXXII
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
Mademoiselle 42
Kaige Yang
Painting - 50 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,674 $1,507
La terre et l'horizon
Benoît Guérin
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$670
La liberté à travers un kaléidoscope
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 122 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$837
Magic Garden (Jardin Magique)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$273
Kiss me, I love you
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,572
Entre deux
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$893
Peinture 12-2023-73
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 89 x 146 x 4.5 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,674
Peinture 12-2023-71
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,340
Peinture 11-2023-65
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$781
Peinture 11-2023-63
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$781
Marine abstraite 54
Fred Boutet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,340
Marine abstraite 2024-51
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$781
Improvisación 4 Serie La caja negra
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 230 x 330 x 2 cm Painting - 90.6 x 129.9 x 0.8 inch
$14,813
Don't close your eyes
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,851
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?