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La mini maison
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€3,200
Jour et nuit (ermioni 4h-5h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 24 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€650
Jour et nuit (ermioni 2h-4h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Le paysage du voyage !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€95 €86
La souris ! Souris
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€90 €81
Ascoltando Il Sole II / Listening to the sun II
Mattia Novello
Painting - 228.6 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 90 x 45 x 2 inch
€14,508
Io di notte io di giorno
Mattia Novello
Painting - 279.4 x 416.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 110 x 164 x 2 inch
€16,442
Io su poltrona pensando al lui / Me on an armchair thinking about him
Mattia Novello
Painting - 160 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 45 x 1 inch
€8,221
Beyond the rain-drenched streets #8
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
#11 from Witness of 2020 Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Varangeville - Cote normande
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€190
Parce que c'est toi
Yohan Storti
Painting - 130 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Cimes et racines / Anémone-Gentiana B
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Technicolour
Maria Esmar
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,800 €2,380
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
€6,200
Cimes et racines / Anémone- Ranunculus A
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
€6,200
Crimson Adornment
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 99.1 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,306 €1,175
Un instant sur l'océan
Eric Munsch
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 1 inch
€2,200 €1,980
Falaises du Tarn
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€590
Future Perfect Continuous
Andrew Weir
Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
€500
J’ai une bouteille de champagne... tu lâches ton surf ?!
Lydi
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Ok minette, tu as surfé comme une reine... on s’éclate entre filles
Lydi
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,200 €1,080
We contain multitudes
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
€6,000
Music to my soul
Clinton Odhiambo
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,161 €1,045
Gorille "Bleu gorille"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,950 €1,755
Le Sacre du Printemps
Liubov Juravliova
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,700
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,400 €1,920
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
La clairière en fleurs
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 160 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€2,450
Hommage à Dubuffet
Patricia de Boysson
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,000 €4,500
Where there is life, there is hope II
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2.2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.9 inch
€550
Déstructuration
Patricia de Boysson
Painting - 91 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€7,000
Face à face
Ludovica Cholet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000 €1,800
Orange Edition No.17
Doris Marten
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Au bord de la falaise
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€590
La débâcle
Ludovica Cholet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,200 €1,980
What are you waiting for
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,900 €1,710
Line drawing neon 2
Clemens Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 50.3 x 65.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.8 x 25.7 x 0.1 inch
€3,675
Poétiques du paysage 86
Carole Bressan
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
Sold
S'auras tu vivre le plus mauvais (Diptyque)
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
€2,500
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?