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Autre Moi, Pharrell Williams portrait. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 76 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.9 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Asie, simplicité d'ailleurs
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,126
Porsche 911 | 80th Birthday 2024
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 62 x 161 x 15 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 63.4 x 5.9 inch
$10,750
Gender Personality
Woko Aguru
Painting - 121 x 106.1 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 41.8 x 1.2 inch
$4,527
Deforestation
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,460
Pareja paseando
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Mujer en la noche
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$905
Belleza frente a desgracia
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Mujer con copa
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Atracción
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Busto en pedestal
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Pensamientos
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Fiat 500 | 80th Birthday in 2024
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 67 x 150 x 15 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 59.1 x 5.9 inch
$10,750
Graffiti heartist XL
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 120 x 116 x 15 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 45.7 x 5.9 inch
$15,277
Reclamo anónimo
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,132
A tire d'aile
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$634
The precious heartbeat
Julius Babilonia
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,776
Naissance du Jour
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$775
Fuite impromptue au paradis des octaves
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$917
Interiorité
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$894
Veil of Whispers
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,807
Blooming Love Story
Elisa Costa
Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,220
Traversière
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,086
L'abri légendaire
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$770
La reine paisible
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$770
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0783
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 46 x 55 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 inch
$1,358
Eclosions géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$10,750
Les coquelicots
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Print - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,426
Sentiment de papillon N°14
Aurélien Finance
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
$2,150
Happy Diptych in "Washi"
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 3.81 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$1,750
The forest for the trees
Nick Warren
Painting - 76 x 101.5 x 3.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40 x 1.4 inch
$3,463
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?