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Lilly Muth
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
L'univers de l'artiste
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
The dreams we make come true (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,114
Fleurs bleues des champs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$909
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Kimono
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,639 $7,775
Stuck In A Loop (Again)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Le poids du monde
Antony Squizzato
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,694
Pray for all the people
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,460
J + Odalisque Bleue
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 61 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,591
Arbre de vie et papillons
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$27,282
Feu d'artifice
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$22,735
Exceptional Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,600
Whispers of the Forest
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
Mirrored Dreams
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
Harmony to the Horizon
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,297
Love without End
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,615
We All Live Under the Same Sky
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,204
Porsche 911-930 Turbo
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,819
Cache-cache Lamborghini
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$1,933
Color Your Colors (Réhaussé / Hand-embellished)
Onemizer
Print - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,705
Diagonal Composition 4
Lucie Jirku
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,800
La pieuvre, le poulpe, le pouffre en argot sétois
Robert Combas
Painting - 150 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38 x 1 inch
$136,412
The early spring garden
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,250
Wind dancing with spring flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,250
Primavera red flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,250
Flowarh$ - II (C) - Flowers - Les fleurs
Mr Brainwash
Print - 91.4 x 91.4 cm Print - 36 x 36 inch
$5,115
I Keep Thinking This Is Over, This Is Not Over / Red Green Purple Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Énergie
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,274
Vibrant Abstract Burst
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Psychédélique village
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Boîte de Petri #16
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$739
Vibrant Meadow Bouquet
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$999
Renouveau 16
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,342
Home is where the Heart is
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 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?