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La ballerine invisible
Michele Charles Nicolas
Painting - 66 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 26 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
Marine abstraite 2024-42
Fred Boutet
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$1,228
The Texture of Fall
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Vue de Saint Tropez
Brito Esteves
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Lucia Bose, Cronaca di un amore
Fabio Purino
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$837
Amazonia
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,099
Avec vous
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche
Painting - 115 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,698
Sans titre
Raoul Hausman
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$5,023
Window view 11 - Wipe left
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$9,600
II (two) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,000
Invisible sea
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,400
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 4
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,177
En équilibre - série chaussures de femme
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,473
Blue, burned sienna
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,462
Soft abstraction IX
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$669
Femme au turban jaune
E. Rosselli
Painting - 55.4 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,567
La cerisiers en fleur
Charlotte Pivard
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$167
Couleurs du soir
Victorine Follana
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,009
La roue lumineuse
Damienne Valentin
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$670
Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$424
Lady with a hand fan
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 1 inch
$6,800
Quatre Saisons (Eté)
Sylvain Lang
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Gravity, Yellow Background
Ito Dubois
Painting - 81 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,144
Enchanted Strings
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$650
30 janvier 2024
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,791
No Title #1317
Jochen Cerny
Photography - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,177
Seul dans ce monde de... - série animaux marins fantaisistes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$977
Competing Thoughts
Michael Mccullough
Painting - 121.9 x 96.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 48 x 38 x 0.3 inch
$3,250
Le da color
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$837
Compuvas
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 140 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,349 $2,679
Lumiere liquide II
Scott Naismith
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$13,284
Grand dégradé carré blanc bleu sombre
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391
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
$1,300
Geometry with curves
Marek Uhlir
Painting - 59.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$960
Abstract Art Twenty-Three
Lynne Taetzsch
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,995
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?