L'Oiseau Damoclès (Étude)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 45 x 28 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 11 x 1.2 inch
€456
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?
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La mouette chef d'escadrille
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€3,200
La jument VIVI
Mario Adornetto
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 12.7 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 5 inch
€9,199
Just The Way You Are (Triceratops)
Will Eskridge
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
€366
Chatte de ménage (1)
Martine Dégot
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 20 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 7.9 inch
€1,000
Sidération 2
Maï
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€350
King Solomon sitting in Jerusalem
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
€3,900
The first meeting of the Prince and her lover in the forest
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
€3,900
War of demons and mystics
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
€3,900
Hommage to Hermann Poppelbaum
Paolo Pasotto
Print - 50 x 69 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.2 x 0 inch
€250
12 series - Wave and shell
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 45 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
T'es tops branchés !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
€90
Morning preparations
Victor Sheleg
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€9,500
Sanctifié VI
Romain Liverato
Photography - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€3,500
Bêtes sur fond rouge
Joanna Flatau
Painting - 80 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€5,500
Maternal majesty: A mother's Love
Thuy Linh Vu
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,300
Untitled 18, NY.
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€3,659
L'heure courtilière
Nicolas Kennett
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
L'oeil de la phragmitaie (Elanion blanc)
Nicolas Kennett
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Sheena Is A Pizza Rocker
Will Eskridge
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.5 inch
€457
La souris vagabonde !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€95
Happy Birthday !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
€90
Le signe du Bélier !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€95
La musique des Papillons !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€90
Notre Martin Pioupiou!
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.2 inch
€90
Un amour de Pioupiou !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€90
Notre perroquet tout en couleur !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€95
Le souffle de l'esprit #5
Thomas Mainardi
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€650
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€340
Vive les fleurs et les chats
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 19 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
€150
Renart, le Goupil
Monsieur Térez
Sculpture - 42 x 55 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 21.7 x 7.9 inch
€1,600
True stories of the Middle East
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 168 x 192 x 5 cm Painting - 66.1 x 75.6 x 2 inch
€9,500
Watermelon Daydreams
Will Eskridge
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
€366
L'oiseau dans la ville
Lallement Martine
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€250
Chiens 2 - Série animalière imaginaire
Justine Bonvarlet
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€225
Chiens 1 - Série animalière imaginaire
Justine Bonvarlet
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€225
Chiens 3 - Série animalière imaginaire
Justine Bonvarlet
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€225
