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Marseille. Le don du vent
Sarah Guiraudon
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
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Kantavri Itsasoa VI - Cantabrian Sea
Alberto Letamendi
Painting - 129.5 x 193 x 5.1 cm Painting - 51 x 76 x 2 inch
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La beauté des fleurs nocturnes
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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Condescendance
François Lestrille
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Éclat bleu gris irisé
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or orange rose iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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La peinture contemporaine n'existe pas
Jérôme Bauduin
Painting - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
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Éclat or orange
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or orange violet iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat bleu sombre
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat orange rouge marron
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat bleu gris iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or bronze gris iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat jaune vert
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat verdoyant bleu
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat chaleureux
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat violet pâle bleu
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or rouge
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or verdoyant
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or vert bleu iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat rose iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat or Marron
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat jaune orange
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat verdoyant
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat brasillant
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Éclat rose violet iridescent
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
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Fondu or vert bleu iridescent 2
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
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Shoot the bank Handfinished
JP Malot
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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She and the red chair
Victor Sheleg
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
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La panthère rose, enjoy
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Le hurlement du loup
Âme Sauvage
Sculpture - 19.5 x 8.5 x 26 cm Sculpture - 7.7 x 3.3 x 10.2 inch
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Sainte-Victoire automne
Clothilde Philipon
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Phare de La Flotte en Ré - Île de Ré - Digital Art digigraphie
Claire Prouvost
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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Carreaux bleu - Digital Art digigraphie
Piment Martin
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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La Provence - Digital Art digigraphie
Piment Martin
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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Landscaping-CLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
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Landscaping-LXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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Nocturne-CLXXXVI (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
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The Evening Prayer II giclée art print
Angu Walters
Print - 80 x 98 x 0.1 cm Print - 31.5 x 38.6 x 0 inch
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Portrait aux perles
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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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?