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Factory & Soft mountain chain
Marion Sagon
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,630
Fresh Paint
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,697
Une étoile dans la nuit
Emily Starck
Painting - 100 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,090
Composition abstraite
Alain Somma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,124
Territorio Desconocido 9
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 95 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
Cosmic Stories 2
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 31.5 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$832
Space Stories
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 26.5 x 47.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.4 x 18.7 x 0.1 inch
$764
Lord and Lady Eliot painting
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$950
TerritorioDesconocido 8
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 95 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
TerritorioDesconocido 3
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 108 x 108 x 4 cm Painting - 42.5 x 42.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,686
Graff n°1417
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$730
Passion
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,775
Golden sticks
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,259
TerritorioDesconocido 2
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 108 x 108 x 4 cm Painting - 42.5 x 42.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,686
TerritorioDesconocido 6
Joaquín Lara
Painting - 95 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
L'Age d'or VI
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$966
Guerrier de lumière
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 73 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,011
Fête de l'été
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,686
Liberté
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,686
Sunset fireworks no.2
Laura Dujoncquoy
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$449
Spider Quenell
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,300
Let’me jump in your game #5
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,247
In the center there´s silence
Susana Lopes Tavares
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
$1,485
Life prespectives
Susana Lopes Tavares
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
$1,485
At distance
Susana Lopes Tavares
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.7 inch
$1,485
Easy does it
Susana Lopes Tavares
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inch
$1,360
Couleurs de printemps
Damienne Valentin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,798
The Time Curve #4
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
The Time Curve #3
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
The Time Curve #2
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
The time curve #1
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
Maria Cornejo and Mark Borthwick in Brooklyn
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
A corner at Dries van Noten’s home
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,300
Cecille is playing with her tail
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$1,230
Prada Bag Ladies
Manuel Santelices
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$600
Inside - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$876
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Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,680
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,124
La vie en effervescence
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$1,180
Colors Painting for Sale
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?