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La petite fille aux cheveux bleus
Ninu Art
Painting - 76 x 58 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.8 x 1 inch
$2,274
Bridging the Gap
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$2,204
Christmas series – A Christmas carol
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 14.8 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 5.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inch
$216
Christmas series – The twins
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 14.8 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 5.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inch
$216
The way to the top
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,821
5,6 Amplis Sur La Conscience
Fernand Kayser
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,092
Tudo Bem - In the Wood Planks
Nacks
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.8 inch
$909
Vive les fleurs et les fleurs
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$534
City Mini Break
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,273
Dreaming of Monet,
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$2,590
Window view 07 - Melancholia
Low Bros
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$13,073
Summer Kiss (Nicosia)
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,068
Taylor Swift Sailing in Cannes
Janusz Kik
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$335
Taylor Swift's Visit to a Small Harbour (Taylor Swift en Visite au Petit Port)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$335
Taylor Swift Boat (Le Bateau de Taylor Swift)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$335
The Swallow's Dance
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$750
Mythologie grecque
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 65 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,274
54 series - Everything and nothing
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 92 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,990
Le cœur de l'Océan
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,660
Peace and hope (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$56
La couleur de mes envies car je t'aime
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,501
L'oiseau sage de l'amour
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$101
La femme et la colombe (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
Inspiration Klimt - Arbre de vie
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 89 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,523
The beauty of fresh roses in a vase
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$398
Slow light on the way
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,251
Feux d'artifice sur les nuages
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$85
Arabic Sunset
Aurélien Buttin
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$909
Soirée dans un village au sud
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 42 x 62 cm Painting - 16.5 x 24.4 inch
$1,023
Big bang sur papier 31
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$205
Nada mejor que con el abuelo
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 252 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 99.2 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,400
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?