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For You floral small painting
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$291
The Pomegranate Tapestry
Arto Mkrtchyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$450
Voyage voyage
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$424
Paysage abstrait II
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 68 x 138 x 1 cm Painting - 26.8 x 54.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,791 $2,512
Ressource
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,411
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
$804
On brûle les scarabées
Jean Messagier
Painting - 120 x 205 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 80.7 x 0.8 inch
$39,070
Laitues Hard-Core
Jean Messagier
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$30,139
Grand hiver en or
Jean Messagier
Painting - 75 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$13,395
Dusk in the village
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
An invitation to the present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,429
vue sur lyon fourviére
Brito Esteves
Painting - 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$670
Promenade à travers champ
Patrick Marie
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,797
Régate 2 série Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$212
Fiordalisi tra il grano
Marco Saporiti
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$223
Arco Iris (Tríptico). Serie Geschichte
Verónica Sanes
Painting - 30 x 90 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 inch
$670
Sister, we are under the protection of our garden
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,507
Flamingo in Love
Kat Zhivetin
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,380
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
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,679
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,679
Combinaison sphérique sur fond ocre
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,563
Les fleurs qui s'ouvrent le soir no.4
Clo
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,675
Moment de pluies
Yichao Sun
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,140 $5,526
The Land of Orchids
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$360
La la la
Mineko Yoshida
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$410
Dizzy
Mineko Yoshida
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$410
The Walk Around Gypsy Hill Park,
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 66 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$395
Dynamograph "Hidden Image"
Yaacov Agam
Sculpture - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Sculpture - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$26,791
Abstracion I
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,023
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?