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Racing Formula Twenty Three
Cosmos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$6,956
Los Jardines Del Prado
Cosmos
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$13,351
Marine abstraite 2024-48
Fred Boutet
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$673
Retrato gris en fondo azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 215 x 220 x 2 cm Painting - 84.6 x 86.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,279
Poisson Arlequin
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 92 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Poissons chirurgiens
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 101 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$1,335
Queen angel facing
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,055
French angel and corals
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 53 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Paysage abstrait III
Cécile Girard
Painting - 43 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
love light (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
True love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
Red boy (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$166
Love street (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Street angel (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$100
Happy flower (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Big love (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Life (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Pop dog (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
La terre et l'horizon
Benoît Guérin
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$673
Soft abstraction X
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$672
Jardin d’Alexandre 4-1 Hiver
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,141
Jardin d’Alexandre 2-1 Été
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,141
Shield Maiden, II
Héléna Palazzi
Photography - 89 x 71 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35 x 28 x 0 inch
$1,010
Shield Maiden, III
Héléna Palazzi
Photography - 89 x 71 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35 x 28 x 0 inch
$1,010
Kiss me, I love you
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,590
Who Are These Angels CXLIII
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$850
Big bang sur papier 31
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$202
Colourful Birds
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 77.5 x 117.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 30.5 x 46.3 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
Don't close your eyes
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,871
Entre deux
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$898
Peinture 12-2023-73
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 89 x 146 x 4.5 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,683
Peinture 12-2023-71
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,346
Peinture 11-2023-65
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$785
Peinture 11-2023-63
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$785
Marine abstraite 54
Fred Boutet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,346
Marine abstraite 2024-51
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$785
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?