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Le grand bleu - Fifty shades of blue
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,132
Straight from the Heart
Christiaan van Hedel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,412
Purple Sky Turquoise Clouds
Simon Findlay
Painting - 200 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,468
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,609
Golden brown, white golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,975
Rustle of Birds
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 110 x 170 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 66.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,917
Paradise Found
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 110 x 175 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 68.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,927
For You floral small painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$293
The Lone Forager
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$199
DH Men Cliché
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 120 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,356
Les deux pins
Victorine Follana
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.8 inch
$1,683
Water lily, Flower of purity
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 79.8 x 59.9 x 3 cm Painting - 31.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
Still life with fruits
Valeri Tsvetkov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,141
Two Hearts, One Canvas
Liana Asatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Flying Dragon Playing with Pearl
Hongda
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Magnificent Chaos
Isabelle Rivest
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,550
Geometric secret
Marek Uhlir
Painting - 100.1 x 119.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,320
El coral rojo del mediterráneo
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 115 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,963
Grand dégradé carré or rose violet
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$393 $353
He's got a dream too
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$774
Underwater daylight M 3
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,559
Régate 2 série Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$213
La presqu'île de cassis
Chantal Buissart
Painting - 80 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
How It Has Been Made Possible
Macha Poynder
Painting - 165 x 158 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 62.2 x 0 inch
$8,504
Au Pays du Soleil Levant
Yannick Bernard
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,099
Retrato en azules
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,939
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La vie en effervescence
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,178
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,122
Aux alentours d'Aix en Provence
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,029
Colors Painting for Sale
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?