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Graffiti revival
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 134.6 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 53 x 60 x 2 inch
$23,000
Noname 100.100 #D90
Stéphane Rime
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$954
Art stories: Ok enjoy
Nicolas Pichon
Sculpture - 160 x 15 x 5 cm Sculpture - 63 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,683
Whispers of Spring in Rural Repose
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Love #11172022
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 76.2 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$7,965
Entre Ciel et Terre
Aimée De Courtozé
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$348
L'amour sur un petit nuage
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$886
Butterfly Effect II
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$965
Bethesda, l'ange de Central Park
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 131 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.6 x 38.2 x 1 inch
$2,693
La couleur de mes envies car je t'aime
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,468
Passion in lively red
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.6 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
$247
Dialog der Farben
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,180
Under the Angel's wings
Ivana Olbricht
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
Plage de Tahiti, Carantec
Franck Dupire
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
"Les Imprévus" abstrait acrylique collage sur lin 100x100cm 2022
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,039
"Feu" semi abstrait triptyque acrylique sur lin 70x150cm 2015
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 70 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,356
"Besoin de légèreté" abstrait acrylique collage sable sur lin 72x70cm 2020
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 72 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,693
"Accalmie" abstrait acrylique sur lin 80x80cm 2019
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,029
"Frimas" abstrait acrylique collage oxydation châssis lin 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,375
Tulip regenerations
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
White Still
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Erotic Maniac
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Three dry pink-orange roses
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Venice
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with Grapes
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 64.8 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with Shells
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with a Pink Bird
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with Black Pearls
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with Tomatoes
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Rire ou pleurer - série personnages
Eric Stein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Flying over Montmartre
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$185
Camouflage (red)
Leikun Nahusenay
Painting - 64 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,917
Hach Harring 2
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,814
Eve Keith Jacket
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,712
Trinity (shuka)
Leikun Nahusenay
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,488
Serenity on the Horizon
Michael Milkin
Painting - 61.5 x 91.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.2 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,800
Composition No.419
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 61 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,458
Composition No.417
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 83 x 94 x 3 cm Painting - 32.7 x 37 x 1.2 inch
$1,234
Composition No. 440
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 112 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 44.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,234
Composition 438
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 84 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 33.1 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,795
Composition no. 435
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 36 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 14.2 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,132
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?