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Rooted Like Trees - Marks And Pools
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
Nature's Peace - Marks And Pools
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€996
Autumn Leaves - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,499
Walk With Nature No 1 - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,161
Turn Away - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,349
There Is A Wilderness - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,354
Solitary Sea Bird - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,431
Being Myself - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,518
That Wild Country - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
I Need The Sunshine - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,373
My Imagination - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
Who Hears Music - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€928
Wildness - Wild Series
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,954
Belong To Oneself - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,954
Beauty Unfamiliar - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
Cherish Your Solitude - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
Fall In Love - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
I Want To Be Alone - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,973
Abstract Patterns Three
Lynne Taetzsch
Painting - 76.2 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,736
Balanced Equanimity
Liz McDonough
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,013
Independently Together
Lisa Daniels
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,354
Quiet evening. Apple trees in bloom. Kolomenskoe
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€4,150
Sunset in a pea field
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,400
Roses in a blue vase
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 62 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Upstairs & Downstairs
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 92 x 31 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 12.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,800
The Good Neighbour
Laura Petrovich Cheney
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
€4,400
Weather Pattern II,
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€3,095
Sea Effloresce
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€3,095
Racing Thunderheads
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€3,143
Ravine: Light Thief
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,062
Rumble in the Jungle
Boris Gobina
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Bienveillante espérance
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€730
Night fragrance XVII
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 78.7 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31 x 40 x 1 inch
€1,451
Lost in the Machine
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,315
Distracted
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,461
Brainstorm
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,315
Follow the Money
Loretta Kaltenhauser
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€1,461
Abstract Landscape #4
Linda Bankerd
Painting - 76.2 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€1,286
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?