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Lavender shimmer (Summer garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,410
Under the northern lights
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,410
An instant paradise
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
An instant paradise,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Endless secret night,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,470
An instant paradise 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Deep Blue Paradise
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$5,030
Memories and dreams 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,840
Reflections of Europe 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,460
Ultra radiant tropical spectra
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$3,840
Torrential purple storm (A closer look) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,970
Torrential purple storm (A closer look) 4, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,970
Ultimate brightness
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$2,460
Una luce splendida (splendid light)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,420
Spring drizzles (over blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,400
Color splendor (Over silver blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.3 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 inch
$2,400
A Forest Song (New Beginnings),
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,460
Dense secrecy (In the forest)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,460
Foliage and breeze (A forest song)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,270
Where sounds disappear 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,130
A Forest Song (Circle of seasons)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,130
Fast nature (Among bees)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,560
Fast Nature (nighttime motion)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,560
Red Balloons
Nathalie Gribinski
Painting - 157.5 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 62 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$3,350
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
Les règles de la cohabitation sociale.
Noah Borger
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$335
Grand dégradé carré bleu grisé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391 $352
North Side of Lasqueti
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 19 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$860
Regarde moi
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 128 x 75 x 1.5 cm Painting - 50.4 x 29.5 x 0.6 inch
$2,009
Weather Pattern II,
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,200
Sea Effloresce
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,200
Racing Thunderheads
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,250
Ravine: Light Thief
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,200
Abstract Impressions
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$600 $510
Summer's light bouquet
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$279
Fusion of red roses (1)
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$279
Bouquet of red roses
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$279
Paysage abstrait II
Weiquan Liu
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,340 $1,206
Colgate
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 39.9 x 99.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.3 x 0.6 inch
$1,200
Le souffle intense
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,228
Quand il faut y aller, il faut y aller
Sange
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,094
Blossom collector
Vahe Bagumyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$350 $298
Les Vénitiennes
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Dreaming of Monet,
Nancy McIntyre
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$2,590
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?