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Composition 314
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$1,665
Composition 307
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 152 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$1,998
La femme à la licorne
Yannick Aaron
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2.7 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.1 inch
$13,320
Meadow fleete
Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,660
Hommage à Poseidon n°14
Alice Maier
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$499
Green Attraction
Mathilde Polidori
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Avec nom 784
Olivier Ebel
Painting - 85 x 166 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 65.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,885 $3,496
Ville fantôme
Olivier Ebel
Painting - 108 x 77 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,331 $2,098
Caperucita y guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 130 x 163 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 64.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,719
Across the univers
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$2,331
Par dessus des fleurs
Mathilde André
Painting - 31 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$444
Love myself better than you
Emily Starck
Painting - 105 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,660
When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$1,029
Danses 4/29 Tarentelle
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Painting - 40 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,720
Purple Serenade
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 50 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$920
Power Station & Sweet Landscape
Marion Sagon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,773
Northern Factory & Orange Sunset
Marion Sagon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$3,552
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$5,549
There's a Pelican in My Soup
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 58.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 55.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Golden Petal Symphony
Vahe Bagumyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$450
Purple Sky Turquoise Clouds
Simon Findlay
Painting - 200 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,442
Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Simon Findlay
Painting - 200 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,442
Voice from Inside
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$733
Cristal Morning
Asya Feoktistova
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$20,146
Abstract with red purple and gold
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
Pêche aux pieds des Falaises
Patrick Marie
Painting - 93 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,886
Le massif de laurier
Patrick Marie
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,664
A Little Flower Painting : Yellow, White, and Purple Flowers
Takashi Murakami
Print - 55 x 44 cm Print - 21.7 x 17.3 inch
$2,886
Firmament (2)
Anne-Sophie Larcena
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,775
Dawn's Radiant Voyage
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Paysage d'encre N°5
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 18 x 13 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.1 inch
$100 $90
Le Grand bleu - There is no planet B - Earth
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,054
Colors of Nature's Palette
Maya Green
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$2,400
Explosion de couleurs - Burn
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$932
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 2
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$999
Grand dégradé carré or vert bleu irisé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$388
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?