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Westminster Illuminations - Extra Large
Sarah Fosse
Print - 75 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 29.5 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,409
Jade (défilé Lecoanet Hemant, Paris 1998)
Dominique DIEULOT
Photography - 42 x 33 cm Photography - 16.5 x 13 inch
€2,100
Hidden In Plain Sight 2
Robert Langley
Painting - 121.9 x 170.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 48 x 67 x 0.1 inch
€782
Landscaping on Jazz-XCIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€450
Pureté et transparence
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Les objets visuels sont des touts
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 43 x 43 x 2 cm Painting - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0.8 inch
€990
REF 29-17 - La forêt enchantée
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
REF 48-15 - Lumière éternelle
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€880
REF 28-17 - Le Printemps du livre
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,150
Unstructured emotional explosion
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€600
Life in the street 2
Samiran Boruah
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,300
Ecorces de platane
Catherine Clare
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,800 €2,240
Just rainy-LXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€300
Just rainy-LXXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€350
Improvisation-LIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€265
Just rainy-XXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€280
Landscaping CXCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€285
Abstract landscape-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€150
Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white (2)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€5,750
La danse des poissons
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€1,200
Being animal
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 32 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€190
My guardian angel is wearing a red cape
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€150
45) Ilmanquelajoietlamusique. Portugal
Isis Bi-M
Painting - 15 x 21 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€60
28 ) Quefairequandonapaslesmoyensdesesambitions ? Bifurcations. Portugal
Isis Bi-M
Painting - 21 x 29 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
€80
I don't know why it's seems so funny
David Pinegar
Photography - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€17,300
Rukses sárggis
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€4,347
Le village la haut / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€970
Fifties - carré - 7
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€385
REF 10-20 - Cyclone dans l'Océan Indien
Jeanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€250
Formas Poliédricas II
Valentim Sousa
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€380
Homme rose intérieur rose
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
€350
Romance in fall
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 101.6 x 127 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.1 inch
€7,332 €6,599
REF 20-20 - Composition n° 1
Jeanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€250
Réf 6-20 -Comme un arc-en-ciel
Jeanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€250
Couleurs d'automne sur la lande Bretonne /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€230
Headspace
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€350
La fille de Dioné et de Zeus
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,600
On n’est jamais trop Levi’s
Christof Monnin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
€1,600
Nu allongé sur fond rouge
Alain Bonnefoit
Print - 75.5 x 56.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.7 x 22.2 x 0 inch
€900
Le baiser
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€950 €855
Nu allongé sur fond noir et rouge
Alain Bonnefoit
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.05 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€600 €540
Visite au musée (La Vénus de Milo)
Pierre François
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Paula poses for the first and the last time
Jan Saudek
Photography - 38.5 x 28.5 cm Photography - 15.2 x 11.2 inch
€3,000
Draped figure with head to floor
Jan Saudek
Photography - 28 x 22.5 cm Photography - 11 x 8.9 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?