Colored artworks
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Elégante aux cheveux d'or
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 140 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,353
Le paysage du voyage !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$106
La souris vagabonde !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$106
La souris ! Souris
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$100
The woman who rode horses goes to the beach
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,358
Atracción
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
Collection papillons N°1219
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Untitled abstract
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Collection papillons N°1226
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
Les fées des fleurs
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$1,172
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
My Home and my Heart No.3
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,690
Untitled 1 - inspired by Miro
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,500 $1,275
Je t’aime à enfin vivre
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Abstract - Inspired by Miro -2
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,500 $1,275
Forever prefers to last
Jacqueline Dey
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$450
Fate does not ask you
Jacqueline Dey
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$495
Rothschild Avenue B - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 60 x 46 x 7 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 18.1 x 2.8 inch
$4,353
Rothschild Avenue A - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 46 x 60 x 7 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 23.6 x 2.8 inch
$4,353
City on wheels - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Print - 73 x 93 x 3.5 cm Print - 28.7 x 36.6 x 1.4 inch
$5,246
Still life with blue
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,010
Grues Couleurs
Amandine André
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$536
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,187
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,095
Signs of Time VII
Claudia Werth
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,154
Paradise Parasite
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,940
Oltre il canale
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,563
On avance malgré ce ciel lourd
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,674
Universe of colors
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,138
Fantasy
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 76 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,730
Sojourn
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
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?