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North Side of Lasqueti
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 19 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€770
Heart power (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
Love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€49
Me and you (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€89
Floral Outburst
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€2,300
Burst of spring nature
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,500
Through the prism of colors
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
View From the Veranda
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€5,610
When the World Woke Up
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€5,513
Storm Over the Lowland
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€5,513
Surprise du Temps Qui Passe
Jazzu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,750
Iridescent Drizzles (Rain in pink)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 46 x 0.7 inch
€8,250
Walking in my sleep
Nestor Toro
Painting - 96.5 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38 x 70 x 0.7 inch
€8,221
Dispersion de magenta
Scott Naismith
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€9,500
Spectrum sunrise
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€16,000
Unapologetically Pink 1
Laura Spring
Painting - 88.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 33 x 0.1 inch
€1,499
Unapologetically Pink 2
Laura Spring
Painting - 91.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 36 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€1,451
Unapologetically Pink 3
Laura Spring
Painting - 91.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 36 x 31 x 0.1 inch
€1,451
Unapologetically Pink 4
Laura Spring
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.7 inch
€1,789
Unapologetically Pink 5
Laura Spring
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.7 inch
€1,789
Couleur de manifestation
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€9,500
Lilac flowers in a vase
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€650
Early blooming lilacs
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€650
Soleil cou coupé
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Flowers in White Pitcher
Nicole Daniah Sidonie
Painting - 36.1 x 36.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
€680
Sweet Shades of Memory XXIV
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,072
Sweet Shades of Memory XXIX
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,642
Turquoise Composition
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€2,079
New Year's Circle
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€3,917
Les larmes d'amour
Christiane Hess
Painting - 96 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.8 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€1,500
Abysses 72
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
The feeling of autumn
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 59.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,306
The feeling of autumn 1
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 56.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,257
Dancing with the Devil
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
€4,546
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?