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Seal of the worlds
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 168 x 142 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66.1 x 55.9 x 0.1 inch
$2,356
Le sentier vers le ciel
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,132
Les nymphéas jaunes
Daniel Paugam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,132
Sans titre (unique) 2021
JP Malot
Painting - 81 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,795
Organdi - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$987
Matin de la terre - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,829
Parfum d'alentour - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,548
Rothschild Avenue B - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 60 x 46 x 7 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 18.1 x 2.8 inch
$4,375
Rothschild Avenue A - mini
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 46 x 60 x 7 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 23.6 x 2.8 inch
$4,375
Motor functions
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 58.2 x 38.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.9 x 15.3 x 0.04 inch
$1,122
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
$5,273
Bouteilles bleues
Christian Jodin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$898
Abstract surfboard (2)
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 160 x 36 x 4 cm Sculpture - 63 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,207
Abstract surfboard (1)
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 160 x 36 x 4 cm Sculpture - 63 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,207
City of light
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 165 x 197 x 0.3 cm Painting - 65 x 77.6 x 0.1 inch
$5,273
Harmony Motel, Twentynine Palms, California
Richard Heeps
Photography - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,122
La voile rouge
Gaspard Alexanders
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$22,494
BabyBrat Diablo rouge debout
Brat
Sculpture - 36 x 13 x 21 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.1 x 8.3 inch
$5,609
On sort les voiles
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,627
HEtresEnCompagnie #05
Corinne Bresson
Photography - 60 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$393
Extrapolation
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,077
En avant toute
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$808
Everyday Life - Follow your Dreams
Mr Brainwash
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Painting - 30 x 22 inch
$15,146
A summer style positif
Zenoy
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,741 $6,657
Bateau ivre
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,414
Apesenteur
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,885
Mes plus belles vacances
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,670
Village en bord de mer
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,805
Poussières de sable du Sahara
Emily Starck
Painting - 119.4 x 119.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47 x 47 x 1 inch
$4,342
Ca va durer encore longtemps?
Emily Starck
Painting - 109.2 x 188 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 74 x 1 inch
$4,808
Un jour je ne serai plus
Emily Starck
Painting - 182.9 x 124.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 72 x 49 x 1 inch
$4,608
Summer 2021, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Emily Starck
Painting - 94 x 198.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37 x 78 x 1 inch
$4,872
Le bonheur est dans la couleur
Emily Starck
Painting - 109.2 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 35 x 1 inch
$2,207
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?