Chanel, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 99.1 x 68.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 27 x 0.7 inch
$2,250
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?
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Chanel 2
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 100.8 x 69.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.7 x 27.5 x 0.7 inch
$2,250
Striking Red Elegance XXL Unique
Léa Ottavi
Print - 130 x 90 x 0.1 cm Print - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$477
From the series "Hidden Places" - 08
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,530
From the series "Hidden Places" - 07
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,530
La femme à la licorne
Yannick Aaron
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2.7 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.1 inch
$14,306 $12,875
Vive les fleurs, les cocktails & dream
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$179
Vive les chats et les cocktails
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 41 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$477
On her majesty's Reine 007 james bond cinéma
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 75 x 115 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 1.2 inch
$417
Voyages immobiles Gandhi Paix liberté prière freedom peace india elephant
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$536
Wonder Princess Lady Di Reine Queen Diana England Pop art
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 115 x 75 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 1 inch
$536
Nice - Malte / Série SuperPOPsitions
Amandine André
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.4 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$417
John Lennon Imagine One Peace Beatles Paix Rock'n'Roll
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 29 x 29 x 5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 inch
$536
Lady Grape
Mariana Gumeniuc
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,058 $952
Under the Shade of Trees
Ilia Filatov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
In Frame Series: Relax At Home
Suanjaya Kencut
Painting - 104.14 x 88.9 x 2.54 cm Painting - 41 x 35 x 1 inch
$15,000
Keep Flying
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,100 $2,480
Colored Campbell's Soup Teal
The Skateroom
Design - 80 x 20 x 0.2 cm Design - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$325
Colored Campbell's Soup Peach
The Skateroom
Design - 80 x 20 x 0.2 cm Design - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$325
Colored Campbell's Soup Beige
The Skateroom
Design - 80 x 20 x 0.2 cm Design - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$325
A time for everything
Xiaoyang Galas
Print - 59.9 x 59.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$380
La flamme arrive à Marseille
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$117
Mon chemin
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$101
Portrait of a girl with glasses
Eugene Gorbachenko
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,769
Malikah legs
Hassan Hajjaj
Photography - 94.7 x 70.5 x 4 cm Photography - 37.3 x 27.8 x 1.6 inch
$15,498
Style break # The bat
Dominik Rutz
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,189
Fille aux trois anneaux
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,444
Still life with scull
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 150.1 x 169.9 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 66.9 x 0.8 inch
$8,873
Vive les fleurs et les chats en voiture
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$417 $209
Vive les fleurs et les cocktails
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$179 $89
Vive les fleurs et cat cocktails
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 27 x 41 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 inch
$417
Vive les fleurs et les ballons
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$417
Tous à la playa
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$477 $381
Vive les fleurs (1)
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$477
Vive les fleurs, hahaha, grrrrr
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$179 $89
Variations picturales harmoniques entre stases et flux constitutifs du moment esthétique au moyen de petits bonds perceptifs dissensuels mais non moins structurants dans une perspective post-contemporaine bigrement insolite.
Eric Bourdon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$298
Femme au chapeau à fleurs
Eric Bourdon
Painting - 18 x 14 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inch
$298
Vive les fleurs XXXIV
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$536
Ondular Movements #1 and #2. From The Geometric Head Series
Almo
Painting - 59.9 x 99.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.3 x 0.2 inch
$3,200
Colorful Flying Heart
Marcus Botbol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 3.9 inch
$8,820
Trois petits formats égarés dans la nubuleuse patatoïde #1
Monsieur Térez
Painting - 85 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,669
