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The Mosaic of Colors
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Rythmes et couleurs
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€3,900
Whirlwind of summer flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,500
Impossible architectures IV
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
€1,300
Singularity
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€700
Les détours imprévus
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€480
Le cadeau de l'été
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€480
Un après-midi au jardin
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€480
Perception sensorielle
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€480
Une certaine idée du bonheur
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€250
Quand l'été revient
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€250
Il est un temps pour tout
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€250
Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
€250
Quand la douceur épouse la lumière
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
€250
Le goût de la vie
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
€250
Une histoire heureuse
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€180
Et si c'était pour nous deux
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€180
Comme un océan de couleurs
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€180
Balade à ma façon
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€180
The Yellow Jacket
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
€534
Red experimentel reserach
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€12,500
Blue experimental research
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€12,500
Cœur en trouée
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€570
Harmonie... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Le regard rose
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€600
Voyage au fil du temps
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,360
Le soleil joue avec la lune
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,360
La naissance d'une étoile
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
€1,890
Positive Energy M 1 / Oil
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 85 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,990
I love my life
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€6,000
Head in the Stars
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€6,700
Hand to hand forever
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€6,500
Les belles couleurs
Eric Munsch
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Invading #1 and #2. From The Botanical Interruption Series
Almo
Painting - 59.9 x 99.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.3 x 0.2 inch
€2,716
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?