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Grace Kelly (Triptyque)
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$4,495
Lucy in the Sky (Diptyque)
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,697
Untitled (N° JP0822BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$12,136
Upheaval 1
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
$405
Sans titre (Côtes d'Armor)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
Sans titre (Côtes d'Armor)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,259
Sans titre (Côtes d'Armor)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,259
Tactile Memory #157
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 24.1 x 19.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.5 x 3 inch
$2,150
Tactile Memory #156
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 24.1 x 19.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.5 x 3 inch
$2,150
Shopping sous les arcades
Linda Clerget
Painting - 92 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,371
Strange dances 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,775
It's a perfect day
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,809
Scogli d'Alta Quota (Lavaredo) 1/3
Tobia Ravà
Print - 110 x 130 x 3 cm Print - 43.3 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,102
Les Colonnes Morris
Philippe Varillon
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$876
Bonheur de Matisse - MP 386
Bram van Velde
Print - 65 x 97 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$3,933
Vent des sables - MP 392
Bram van Velde
Print - 65 x 92 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0 inch
$3,146
Purple colored morning
Peter de Boer
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,910
Tableau Mickey fluo pop art
Papaz
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,067
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°6
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$876
Pillars of color, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 203.2 x 152.4 x 4.3 cm Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.7 inch
$3,748
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°7
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 12 x 0 inch
$876
Femme aux yeux bleus
Lison Favarger
Painting - 60.5 x 60.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.8 x 23.8 x 0.2 inch
$895
Playa, cat and flower
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,011
Don´t give up on your dreams
Christel Haag
Painting - 99.1 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 32 x 1 inch
$2,250
Catching memories (Reflections of Summer)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
Reflections of Autumn
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
Vltava - La Moldau II
Marcela Zemanova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$618
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°9
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 12 x 0 inch
$876
Abstract Landscape. 9.28.22
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$517
Zeroplusall 4 one Yellow Mood 1
Carola von Seherr-Thoss
Painting - 120 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$6,422
Foisonnement
Roseline Al Oumami
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,259
Impossible mountain
Álvaro Marzán
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
Colorful silence - Claude Monet inspired
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 65 x 0 inch
$6,517
Lady on the couch
Victor Sheleg
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,798
Inspired by the East
Ganna Prymakova
Painting - 74.9 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,150
Cebra grande verde
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Puzzle of colors Blue et or
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$331 $233
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?