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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Ephémères colorés (N° Inédit)
Jazzu
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Romance à New-York
Julien Raynaud
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,815
Confident blue
David Jamin
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$6,080 $5,776
Fête de la musique
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,752
La mère et l'enfant
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,550
Pierpaolo Piccioli for Moncler
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 cm Painting - 15 x 11 inch
$700
Prada Bag Ladies
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$700
L'arlequin bleu
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 108 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,172
Rose poudré
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 98 x 56 x 3 cm Painting - 38.6 x 22 x 1.2 inch
$3,815
Prête pour sortir
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 99 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,172
La passionnée
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 99 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,172 $3,922
Plein les yeux
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 99 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,172 $3,922
Le grand soir
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 99 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,172 $3,922
Plaisir de la vie
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,457
Chapeau à pois
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,265
Fête de printemps
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,788
Autoportrait- guerrière
Mathilde André
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,669
Hexa Flowery Audrey
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$501
Silent Facets of Violet Dreams
Sephora Venites
Print - 83.8 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Print - 33 x 23 x 0.1 inch
$2,897
Visions of the Inner Flame
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Echoes of the Orchard
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,647
The Echo of Horizons
Sephora Venites
Print - 114.3 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Print - 45 x 34 x 0.1 inch
$2,897
Eyes of Eternal Forms
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,545
Awakening of the Primordial Flow
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$2,545
Biocentrism Revisited
Sephora Venites
Print - 111.8 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Print - 44 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,545
Visions of the Blooming Soul
Sephora Venites
Print - 116.8 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Print - 46 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,766
Celestial Convergence
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$2,897
Chromatic Symbiosis
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,545
Self portrait fall 2023
Emily Starck
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,742
Hexa Flowery Frida
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$501
Voices in the Wind
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$10,610
La vie de château
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,073
En rouge et noir
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,550
Couleur safran
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,837
Introportrait à la nuit
David Jamin
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,007 $4,606
Variations sur l'introportrait
David Jamin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,053
Peace Out Astronaut
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 48 x 35 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13.8 x 5.5 inch
$423
Memories. Little Sisters
Iryna Bondar
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$954
