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Aurora Australis: The southern lights
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,179
Free spirit no. 2
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$964
Free spirit no. 21
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,209
Cosmic blizzard
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Flowers in the rain
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
No matter how long the winter...
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,984
Psychedelic sky
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 38.1 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,190
Birds of a feather II
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
$1,946
Volcanic pulse
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 55.9 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 22 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$1,210
Soleil d'hiver
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,023
I do not rule my dreams, my dreams rule me
Takashi Murakami
Print - 66.6 x 56.6 cm Print - 26.2 x 22.3 inch
$4,115
Bambou
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$886
Emotion in motion
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 100 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,705
Hana11_F72
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Hana02_2458
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Hana16_F5010
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,080
Temporal Perception # 220 A
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$3,375
Mowgli & Bagheera (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
Félix (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
Spirit of Forest 47560
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 29.3 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.5 x 14 x 0 inch
$1,819
Floral - Elixir series on paper III
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,739
Floral Elixir series on paper II
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,739
Floral Elixir series on paper I
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,739
Complimentary Connection
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,008
The path continues
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 118 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,100
The Intuitive Joy II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 95 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,591 $1,432
1966 Paris blanc L'artiste peintre inspiré White Paris The Inspired painter
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,648
Cap May NJ - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
L'Envol - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,160
Kaléidoscope
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 1.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.6 inch
$2,956
Bring it back
João Almeida (xUEkA)
Painting - 146 x 114 x 1.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.6 inch
$3,694
Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$9,094
Blossom collector
Vahe Bagumyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$350 $298
Collection papillons N°1219
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,250
Small gypsy girl in Amsterdam 6
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$989
Bien accompagné
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
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?