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Ivana and Nan in the front row
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Perspective d’un paysage
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,125 $1,913
Prada Bag Ladies
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$700
Fréquence d'amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,669
A day in life # 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 115 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 45.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,566
Charging Bull No. 2
Mario Henrique
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,362
Say It Out Loud
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$840 $672
Conversion II
Johnny Semaan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,850 $1,665
Etonnants voyageurs 4
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
Sold
Toi et moi
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,790
Feu d'artifice
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 48 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$626
Bientôt les vacances
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$425
Through my window II
Daniela Marin
Painting - 200 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,766
Through my window I
Daniela Marin
Painting - 200 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,766
French School PS 236 All Eyez on you
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
Portrait PS223 Tsunami (Large) French School oil painting Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,901
Kherson Trincea
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 160 x 160 x 1 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$2,237 $1,790
Somnium No. 3, Series VII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,152
We'll Remember Baton Rouge
Macha Poynder
Painting - 172 x 314 cm Painting - 67.7 x 123.6 inch
$19,860
INNER GARDEN - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,063
Monde invisible
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,465
French School Still life Flowers Starwars - Pink Strikes back
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
French School - Poppy Starwars - Flower
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
French School - Still life Garlic and Chili peppers Starwars - Oil Painting 21th
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
When Ziggy plays guitar
Sara Chelou
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Temps couvert
Fabienne Ribeyrolles
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
La perle du bassin II
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$3,355
French School - Still life Lemon Summer Starwars - Oil Painting 21th
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
Baiser laser
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$3,244
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°7
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 12 x 0 inch
$872
Untitled
Sarkis Hamalbashian
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,566 $1,409
Fish concert at theater of the sea
Mike Jacobs
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1 inch
$1,096
French School Blue Kurt Cobain
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,901
French School PS 237 Still Storm Pop
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,901
Portrait PS 158 La lionne a les yx verts French School
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
French School - Portrait PS 173 La Princesse Nordestina
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,230
Going to the Darkside
Preston M Smith
Painting - 71.1 x 132.1 x 12.7 cm Painting - 28 x 52 x 5 inch
$3,800
Vive les fleurs J25
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$783
Les yeux dans les yeux
Zafi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,599 $5,543
Une maladie qui gonfle le ventre
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
$895
Ici, soudain un bruit se fit en tendre 'bogoulagô' coup de canon - tonneur dans le ciel !
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
$783
Untitled XII
Alejandra Quintanilla
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Geometrical shapes VIII
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 42 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 6.9 x 0 inch
$951
L'inconditionnel
Diana Malivani
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$15,099
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?