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In a reverie she saw The fox on a mast
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 170 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 66.9 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,816
Feather bow
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$13,252
Tactile impressions
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$13,176
Yellow flowers in blue still life
Gordon Hopkins
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$6,170
Very large size abstract enigmatic painting
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 130 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,244
The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 68.
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,346
Mariage aux Marguerites
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,194
Lumière à l‘horizon… (Souvenirs du sud)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$785
The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 62
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,346
Bonheur perpétuel... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$673
Untitled III. From the Durero series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Jour et nuit (ermioni 8h-11h)
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 73 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 inch
$2,244
Cimes et racines / Anémone 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
Cimes et racines / Ranunculus- Anémone
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 92 x 60 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 inch
$2,244
Cimes et racines / Leonpodium 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,346
Cimes et racines / Néottie 1
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,346
My Mind on Art 4
Susan Wolfe Huppman
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Blue silence #2
Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$1,027
The Layers of Perception
Candice Grant
Painting - 81.3 x 71.1 x 1.9 cm Painting - 32 x 28 x 0.75 inch
$1,050
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,402
Sans titre - série Abstraction
Michel André Martin
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,402
Suspension XX (SG187)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$729
Red carnations
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$107
Te quiero, te quiero
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,085
Swimming in silence
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,680
Peinture 05-2022-38
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$954
Au de la des yeux
Ahmed Zaibi
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$583 $496
Reverse of Syncretism – I am serious, why you don’t believe…
Graça Tirelli
Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Peinture 01-2022-02
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$954
Les gorges du Tarn
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,356
Intersect # 202101 (Abstract Photography)
Paul Snell
Photography - 118 x 118 cm Photography - 46.5 x 46.5 inch
$6,215
Bleed # 202390
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
$7,654
The emerald spirit of Africa
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$1,346
Bleed # 202332
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
$7,654
Choosing Happiness
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 150 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,077
Bleed # 202331
Paul Snell
Photography - 170 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 66.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$7,654
Blue Purple Pink Galaxy
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,234
Endless Love
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 110 x 110 x 12 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 43.3 x 4.7 inch
$13,463
In The Middle Of Nowhere
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 230 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 90.6 x 0 inch
$14,392
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?