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City Rumors #5 - City Rumors Series
Anna Levesh
Photography - 75 x 100 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$1,552
Le pays des sources N°21
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,344
Corail rouge vertige - vortex 21
Philippe Huart
Painting - 15 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$893
Enjoy the life - pop art print 4/100
Thierry Virton
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$279
Dolce vita - pop art print 4/100
Thierry Virton
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$279
Art is travel - pop art print 4/100
Thierry Virton
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$279
Art in nature - pop art print 4/100
Thierry Virton
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$279
A new world - pop art print 4/100
Thierry Virton
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$279
La vallée du silence
Khadija El Haouchi
Painting - 40 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$887
Big Chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 200 x 260 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 102.4 x 0.8 inch
$25,674
After the Beach n°6
Soumisha Dauthel
Painting - 70 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,679
Strive to be worthy
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$750
Rising life IV
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 72 x 75 x 2.6 cm Painting - 28.3 x 29.5 x 1 inch
$3,684 $3,315
Cycle confiance 2023-07
Blandine Insler
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,563
Cycle confiance 2023-19
Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,786 $1,607
Cycle confiance 2023-06
Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,786 $1,607
Cycle confiance 2023-10
Blandine Insler
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,786
Cycle confiance 2023-13
Blandine Insler
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,786
Tactile memory #134
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 24.1 x 19.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.5 x 3 inch
$2,150
Le couple de danseur
Christof Monnin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,674
Balade insolite
Eric Munsch
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,619 $1,457
Basilica San Marco
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,237
Assemblage #14
Georges Myral
Painting - 100 x 100 x 7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
$893 $804
Le voleur d'arcanes
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$5,358
Entre l'ombre et la lumière
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,420
Partition sémantique 2
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,065
Men in the Shadow
Hannelore Bueki
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$11,442
The book I didn’t read #2
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 200 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,581
Zone Commerciale #1
Severine Dietrich
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,563
Once in Yellow & Blue
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,115
Diamond Star Orange - Incl Frame
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,730
The Perfect Masterpiece
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$15,628
Qui c'est qua dit que je faisais moche ?
Robert Combas
Print - 92 x 60 x 1 cm Print - 36.2 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$7,814
Standing on the shifting sands
Luca Brandi
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,870
Coucher de soleil
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Natura morta orientale
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 45 x 51 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
$781
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?