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Echo 4
Suoyuan Wang
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$785
Untitled - Man of color Series
Harold Smith
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.3 inch
$535
Composition abstraite
André René César Brechet
Painting - 55.5 x 88 x 2 cm Painting - 21.9 x 34.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,379
La bombasse orange Keith Haring
Capocci
Sculpture - 30 x 28 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11 x 2 inch
$1,346
Peace Shall Prevail 3
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Painting - 61 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 15 x 1 inch
$2,000
Abstract
Miquel Angel Benejam
Fine Art Drawings - 46.5 x 63.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.3 x 25 x 0 inch
$673 $572
Framed Color Face II
Jens-Christian Wittig
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$4,500
Tapis carrés magiques – Sonia Delaunay x Artcurial
Sonia Delaunay
Design - 293 x 180 x 2 cm Design - 115.4 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$12,341
Anonimo pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 116.6 x 99.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 45.9 x 39.3 x 1.8 inch
$4,000
Invisibile words (In between)
Gugi Goo
Painting - 119.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$1,094
Untitled (Limbo 1)
Vincent Obinka
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000
Fluence n°30,1
Jonathan Ausseresse
Sculpture - 43 x 16 x 2 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
Emmy et seneçon
Marie Labat
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$539
Composition Ref BDNW7445
Lutka Pink
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 27 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 10.6 inch
$729
Parto II
Rolando Amaru Benedusi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,683
Tulips IV, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Ken Karlic
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1.5 inch
$590
The Emotional Creation #322
Carla Sá Fernandes
Painting - 59.9 x 119.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,520
Le coeur et l'âme
Fabienne Ribeyrolles
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,402
Iris Apfel
Sylvie de la Happy Funky Family
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$404
Girl On A Hill
Daniel Oguche Junior
Painting - 50.8 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 14 x 1 inch
$1,550
Femme cheval
Caroline Crozat
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 65 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,571
Melting in the Heat
Stephanie Berry
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
La depeche du midi
Jean-François Dubreuil
Painting - 59 x 42 x 5 cm Painting - 23.2 x 16.5 x 2 inch
$3,478
Rainy Day I
Viktoria Ganhao
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$146
Les trois poupées
Luc Michel Schüpfer
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$770
Portait 8
Prochore Tchuidjang
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$898
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?