Colored artworks
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Sourire pour tous
La Fabrique du Sourire
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 inch
$280
REF 25-20 - Composition n° 8
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
REF 2-19 - Explosion de lumière
Jeanne
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,013
REF 28-17 - Le Printemps du livre
Jeanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,286
Boats in the blue sky
Samiran Boruah
Painting - 62 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,118 $895
Ref 5-24 - Composition n° 55
Jeanne
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$772
REF 13-23 - Kaléidoscope
Jeanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
REF 10-23 - Composition n° 48
Jeanne
Painting - 70 x 90 x 1.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.7 inch
$1,230
REF 5-23 - Composition n° 43
Jeanne
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
REF 14-22 - Composition n° 36
Jeanne
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$884
REF 9-22 - Vagabondage de l'esprit
Jeanne
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$995
Ref 6-22 - Composition N° 32
Jeanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
Ref 1-22 - Composition n° 25
Jeanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$805
REF 21-21 - Croquer la vie à pleines couleurs
Jeanne
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$995
Improvisation-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$296
Abstrait nu N°4 - paysage
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 18.6 x 27.1 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.3 x 10.7 x 0 inch
$593 $534
Farniente (Diptyque)
Maude Ovize
Painting - 100 x 101.5 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$2,461 $1,845
Nu allongé sur fond rouge
Alain Bonnefoit
Print - 75.5 x 56.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.7 x 22.2 x 0 inch
$1,007 $906
Style Keith 04.24
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 89 x 7 cm Painting - 11.4 x 35 x 2.8 inch
$1,566
Style crayons 04.24
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 89 x 7 cm Painting - 11.4 x 35 x 2.8 inch
$1,566
Luxe aquatique (avec de la feuille d'or véritable 24 carats)
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
$1,521
The jealousy of Louis XIV
Pol Ledent
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Earth Landscapes (Sirocco)
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$727
Magnolias pour toujours
Linda Clerget
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,007 $906
The girl from another galaxy
SkunkDog
Painting - 70 x 50 x 7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2.8 inch
$1,678
Portrait avec pois et rayures
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
Peinture abstraite - Respirer le présent
Linda Clerget
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,007
The Wave of happiness
Anna Selina
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,125
Démon et merveille
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
Variation en Orange et Bleu
Linda Clerget
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$895
Dans les ruelles de Chablis
Linda Clerget
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$895 $805
Emoi et moi
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 115 x 75 x 5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 2 inch
$1,957 $1,762
Aux portes de la sagesse
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,790
Voyage dans les régions supérieures de l'atmosphère
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,790
Les déchirures de l'existence humaine
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,790
La Damier
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 144 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,698
Blooming in a sphere
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,230
Nude figure leaning forward (print) (1/5)
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Print - 30 x 20 cm Print - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$134
Un balcon sur la mer
Moi.
Painting - 97 x 130 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.7 inch
$4,474 $3,132
Aus der Reihe - Women`s Pond
Claire Wimmer
Painting - 75 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,342
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?