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Trépidations sexuelles
Francis Apesteguy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
Composition
Stanley William Hayter
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$8,487
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,490
Goutte-à-goutte (warm vibration)
Sabine Nielsen
Painting - 70 x 160 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 inch
$8,487
Sour cherries in my garden
Ignata Vasileva
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,300
Le mur - Scène de vie
Jean-Claude Causse
Sculpture - 65 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$3,395
Fill my life
Amandine André
Fine Art Drawings - 14.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.7 x 5.7 x 0.4 inch
$79
The Parade of the Winter
Snezhana Stoyanova
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,092
Seven sisters
Wurta Amy French
Painting - 88.9 x 58.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 35 x 23 x 0.75 inch
$1,800
Golfing in Normandy
Rody Iliesco
Painting - 81 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$13,580
Rendre (visible le visible) I
Yazid Oulab
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 29.9 inch
$6,790
Nietzsche forever young, w/ Turin horse in Elysium
Diana Heit
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,050
Marlu Jukurrpa (Rêve de wallaby des rochers)
Glorine Martin Nungarrayi
Print - 25 x 19 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$1,584
Happy Valentine day !
Mohammad Hossein Ariyaei
Painting - 50 x 70 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$2,150
A strong wind from the north
David Gómez
Painting - 61 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,603
Nature morte en cuisine
Jean Pierre Bourg
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,814
Untitled drawing no. 2
Del Mar
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 3.5 x 0.4 inch
$215
Bleu gris
Jacques Yankel
Fine Art Drawings - 43 x 32 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.9 x 12.6 x 2 inch
$3,282
Untitled
Laddie John Dill
Sculpture - 26.7 x 57.2 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 10.5 x 22.5 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Vinyl collection nine piece multicolour installation
Heidler & Heeps
Photography - 115 x 115 x 0.5 cm Photography - 45.3 x 45.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,836
Lunapark coffee table color 2
Alessandro Zambelli
Design - 27 x 90 x 45 cm Design - 10.6 x 35.4 x 17.7 inch
$5,545
No.557 Brave New World No.11 “Intersection2”
Jiwon Jang
Painting - 90.9 x 72.7 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,979
Attractive wounds
Kang Sanghee
Sculpture - 69 x 47 x 10 cm Sculpture - 27.2 x 18.5 x 3.9 inch
$13,976
Albeniz suite espanola granada
Hikaru O
Painting - 33.3 x 24.2 x 2 cm Painting - 13.1 x 9.5 x 0.8 inch
$207
Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water dreaming) - Puyurru
Gwendolyn Martin Nangala
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$566
Colorquantization 02
Minuitcréatif
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$453
Rainbow warrior
Alexandre ALLOUL
Photography - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$962
Back to black Patriotic mess 2
Juan Cordero
Print - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$679
Neoteric Abstract -4
Anand Manchiraju
Print - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$4,500
Rose épanouie
Françoise De Beaucé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$5,545
Intervalles du carré
Julio Pacheco-Rivas
Painting - 49 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,621
Untitled Clay Pieces
Derick Smith
Sculpture - 96 x 46 x 2 cm Sculpture - 37.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,490
Portrait of man
Pierre Emile Lelong
Painting - 29 x 27 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$543
Poussière de lune
Florence Comas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$3,800
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?