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Amor de Agua
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
€120
Collegiate
Tina Loiodice
Fine Art Drawings - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€800
Abstraction D
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
La Transformación del Deseo - Explosión de Apetito
Mari Ito
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€9,440
Confidentiel
M. Cohen
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 51 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,700
Aggregate #20 (Large Abstract Contemporary Painting)
G. Campbell Lyman
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1 inch
€4,752
In our Intimate Moments - 02
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 80 x 80 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
€1,300
Color sound in the golden light
Mi Jean Kang
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Papier huilé 4
Françoise Paressant-Tual
Painting - 120 x 100 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Ciel flamboyant Ref BDNW10739
Jacques Poncet
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€1,500
The thing about this place
Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth
Painting - 64 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,080
Complotisme - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,880
Young woman with earrings
Claudia Talavera
Painting - 145 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 43.3 x 1 inch
€4,330
Havre de paix
Prisca Toulon (Priscart)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€875
Crypsis
Angelo Pioppo
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€490
The feeling of autumn
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 59.9 x 79.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Vâhana XXXVI, Più Vicino del Paradiso
Achao
Print - 194 x 59.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 76.4 x 23.4 x 0 inch
€900
Onde vibratoire jaune
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Appreciate the little things
Ashu Pine
Painting - 41 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
€6,000
Dispersed Dense Lines
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
Here Comes the Night II--Blue
Jo Moore
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€1,742
Time Doesn't Heal. People Do
Ellen Brook
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,645
Burst of happiness
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,930
Identità marine 02
Antonio Bettuelli
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,930
Still life with yellow
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,801
Scribble Dream
Charlotte Hannah Crawford
Painting - 81 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,063
Yo quiero... Yo quiero
Carmen Cañadas
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€3,075
Enterrado bajo las raíces del árbol sagrado
María José Vela
Painting - 83 x 83 x 2 cm Painting - 32.7 x 32.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Ulmus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,625
Vol de papillons - Abstraction
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,230
Duo concerto Jian Zou
Changjian Huang
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
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?