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Red-haired girl
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,517
Ressource
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,427
La femme et la colombe (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
DH rose color one
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$809
On brûle les scarabées
Jean Messagier
Painting - 120 x 205 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 80.7 x 0.8 inch
$39,329
Laitues Hard-Core
Jean Messagier
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$30,339
Grand hiver en or
Jean Messagier
Painting - 75 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$13,484
L'Homme-Printemps
Jean Messagier
Painting - 76 x 104 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.9 x 0 inch
$9,551
Chimpanzee #16
Brad Wilson
Photography - 76 x 110 x 0.2 cm Photography - 29.9 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$4,719
Le grand bleu - Hamptons
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 30 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,067
Petit orchéstre de rue avec accordéon et clarinette
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 64.5 x 54.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.4 x 21.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,282
Portrait of Silence
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,500
Red Dress with Orange Shawl
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$950
Fiordalisi tra il grano
Marco Saporiti
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$225
Bosque en diagonal
Manuel Perez
Painting - 115 x 215 x 0.2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 84.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,382
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,573
Fancy Odds XXXII
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
Dynamograph "Hidden Image"
Yaacov Agam
Sculpture - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Sculpture - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$26,968
Couples in the Landscape
Slava Ilyayev
Painting - 75 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$11,000
Sans Titre I, série Deco
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 62.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 24.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,348
Ethereal Stillness II - landscape format large floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,540
December Sky: Blooms in Silence - floral very large art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,742
Floral Minuet in Pastel Blue - colorful very large painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,641
Green FLOWers - extra large floral painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 80 x 165 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 65 x 0.8 inch
$3,438
Regarde moi
Francis L'Huillier
Painting - 128 x 75 x 1.5 cm Painting - 50.4 x 29.5 x 0.6 inch
$2,023
Cromovela triptych 13
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 13 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 5.1 inch
$21,294
What the rose tell me
Irina Trushkova
Painting - 30 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Abstracion I
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,057
Looking For Spring no 2
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$545
Day In The Desert No 1
Melissa McGill
Painting - 50.8 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$615
Day In The Desert No 2
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$615
Day In The Desert No 3
Melissa McGill
Painting - 50.8 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$615
Shadow Guzzler nr. 2
Marek Uhlir
Painting - 70.1 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$620
Night in Paris
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 130 x 162.6 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 64 x 1.2 inch
$2,800
Lost In Valletta No.2
Liz McDonough
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.6 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.4 inch
$556
Afternoon Lake Shores II
Lauren Adams
Painting - 76.2 x 63.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 25 x 1.5 inch
$760
Spring III
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Painting - 102 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 40.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,405
Grandir dans les montagnes
Clo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,575
Straight from the Heart
Christiaan van Hedel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,416
Window view 17 - Swedish curtains 3
Low Bros
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,832
Window view 16 - swedish curtains 2
Low Bros
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$4,832
Window view 14 - Cherry .rar
Low Bros
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
Enchanted Path of Love
Slava Ilyayev
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,990
Un footballeur à Wynwood
Zafi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,517 $4,888
Sill life with cherries
Simona Tsvetkova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,066
Escale à Nantucket
Dominique Kennel
Painting - 56.5 x 56.5 x 1 cm Painting - 22.2 x 22.2 x 0.4 inch
$326
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?