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Sandlewood Cresent
George Pinder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$4,625
Sweet summer memorials
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,866
ESTEVE Tribute Landscape Hommage à ESTEVE Paysage
Laurent Garcin
Painting - 55 x 38 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 inch
$1,414
La petite voiture rouge
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$735
SUD ,C'EST ICI QUE JE VEUX VIVRE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$1,012
Looking for connection
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
Colors 02.01.24
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 24 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch
$328
Metaphysical materialization of smooth thoughts about the inevitable
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 0.6 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.25 inch
$1,450
Golden labyrinths of fate
Anna Selina
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,923
Inexorablement - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 65 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$882
Un instant de réflexion - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$599
Samsara - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$848
Evasion - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$599
Symphonie de la terre - Paysage abstrait
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$599
Soleil éclaté - Paysage abstrait
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$599
Composition en vert
Cécile Girard
Painting - 37 x 36 x 4 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,018
Paysage en bleu gris I
Cécile Girard
Painting - 63 x 47 x 4 cm Painting - 24.8 x 18.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,149
Paysage en bleu gris II
Cécile Girard
Painting - 62 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 24.4 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,149
Paysage en bleu gris
Cécile Girard
Painting - 62 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 24.4 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,149
The time machine – cover 2
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 22.5 x 33.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.9 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,742
The time machine – cover
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 22.5 x 33.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.9 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,040
Printemps bouquet, merci la vie
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$758
Abraham (from Children’s Bible)
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,187
Trees by A Lake XL 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,771
Beautiful summer landscape XL 9
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,771
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Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,691
La vie en effervescence
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,187
Lecture en bleu majeur
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,250
Colors Painting for Sale
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?