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Flowering fields
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 610
Vase with pink roses
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
CHF 763
Blooming Marvelously
Moira Hazel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
CHF 1,654
Peinture 11-2023-66
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
CHF 712
Peinture 10-2020-100
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
CHF 1,729
Marine abstraite 55
Fred Boutet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
CHF 1,220
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
CHF 3,559
Banana Republic #3 (Oeuvre unique)
Karl Kox
Print - 75 x 70 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.5 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
CHF 763
Coiffure
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 49.7 x 38 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.6 x 15 x 0.3 inch
CHF 1,000
Symphony No. 9
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
CHF 9,050
Symphony No. 8
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
CHF 9,050
Symphony No. 7
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
CHF 9,050
Symphony No. 6
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
CHF 9,050
Symphony No. 5
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
CHF 9,050
Floral Expression
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,017
Voyage au fil du temps
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,383
L'Ordre cosmique II
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,383
Le sommeil des âmes
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,383
Red experimentel reserach
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
CHF 12,711
Blue experimental research
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
CHF 12,711
Desert Today Ocean Tomorrow
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 inch
CHF 427 CHF 384
Spring Love
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
CHF 2,125
Plan de métro Gaston Lagaffe
Fat
Painting - 38 x 64 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 25.2 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,627
Abstract express
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 78.7 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31 x 40 x 2 inch
CHF 1,693
In the deep sea
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 119.4 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 47 x 32 x 2 inch
CHF 1,936
Big bang sur papier 18
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 427
Big bang sur papier 19
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 427
III (Three) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
CHF 2,171
Caramel Roses I - textured floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 40 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
CHF 869
Flower Aura - colorful floral arwork
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,007
Akai Hanabira modern textured green floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,373
Flower Sonata floral light beige textured art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,556
Sapphire Rhapsody floral blue square large painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,556
Square Hifuka Floral Colorful Art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,739
Blue Spring II - floral textured landscape or vertical format
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,007
Bohemian Roses - floral textured vertical art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 869
Calm Day II - square floral romantic art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,281
Rose Ephemerality floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,373
Flow floral artwork
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 869
Peinture 06-2023-45
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
CHF 305
Peinture aout 2019-07
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
CHF 305
Fontaine de Jouvence
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 81 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,942
Peinture 12-2023-74
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 180 x 59.9 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,525
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?