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Atmosphère musicale
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$562
They were breakwaters
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$966
In the death car
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,663
When everything is upside down
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,517
Le soleil et la paix
Sergio Moscona
Painting - 63 x 23 x 2 cm Painting - 24.8 x 9.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,472
Shared vision
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,450
Place of inner power 1
Anna Selina
Painting - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,023
Damier fragmenté
Ghislaine Chapuis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,461
Life is a game...
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$1,798
Autumnal 01
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 180.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 71 x 2 inch
$2,300 $1,840
Atracción
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
Collection papillons N°1219
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
Underwater_1 - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Neo-Fruits - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Jelly-Fish - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Fantin-Latour - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Diesel - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Citrus_Fruits - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 54 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 21.3 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$899
Aristoloche - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$983
Artemisia - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$983
Rhus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,826
Phlomis - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,826
Liriodendron - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,826
Conversations 04
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $160
Emotional color chart 184
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,545
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 76 x 57 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,545
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 68 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 65 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Paysage abstrait géométrique
Henri Lainé
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Naturaleza y cemento
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
La femme en rouge
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,236
Conversations02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200 $160
The iron flat building
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 122 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$843
Folk still life
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 101.6 x 63.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.7 inch
$2,050
Drama in the Sky
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 101.6 x 63.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.7 inch
$1,450
Merge of red and blue
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 86.4 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 38 x 0.7 inch
$1,450
Quand le ciel s'enflamme
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Pareja paseando
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Mujer en la noche
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$899
Belleza frente a desgracia
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Mujer con copa
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Busto en pedestal
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
Pensamientos
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
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?