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Granduche
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
Vanarsky
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
Thomas l'Imposteur
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 180 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$20,226
Richard Texier
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
Patricia
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
Métropolis
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 180 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$20,226
Elle était fort déshabillée
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
Chérubin
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 180 x 300 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 118.1 x 1.2 inch
$30,339
Alexandre
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$17,979
César Archibald
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,618
Antonin
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 120 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,618
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (2)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$258
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (1)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$258
Suisse: Printemps
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,236
There's a Pelican in My Soup
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 58.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 55.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Suisse : Neige d'Automne
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,910
Rêves de Japon
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$618 $588
Gaze Into The Lake 02
Angelica Tcherassi
Print - 149.9 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 59 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Untitled Abstract
George Pinder
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$1,665
Place Within Reach 23
Petr Strnad
Painting - 70.2 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$506
Freddie Mercury 2
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,450
Poetry
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$107
Watch In Awe As It Unfolds
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
$2,746
Parade florale #1
Laura Dujoncquoy
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,798
Rhododendron Study No.10
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
Somnium No. 8, Series VIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,304
The song of love
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,011
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
"Scène de rue" figuratif acrylique châssis lin 100x120cm encadré 1985
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,034
"Autour de Santa Fe" abstrait acrylique collage mortier 89x130cm 2015
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 89 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,697 $2,427
Ballerina
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$107
No life without whimsy
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,550
Raconte moi une histoire (Tell me a story)
Emily Starck
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,260
Extase, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Emily Starck
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 inch
$1,511
Chaleur tropicale
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
Genie - La vérité n'est pas l'exactitude (plan de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 41 x 69 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,247
Roi lion (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 36 x 64 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 25.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,023
Astérix et Obélix (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 36 x 64 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 25.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,023 $1,820
Rafiki (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 41 x 68 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
$2,247 $2,023
Tactile memory #134
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 24.1 x 19.1 x 7.6 cm Painting - 9.5 x 7.5 x 3 inch
$2,150
Picsou (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,405
Lâchez moi
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,697 $2,427
L'eau échevelée
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,360 $2,124
Towards East, Breaking Dawn
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 46.5 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.3 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,348
Morning (Sky and Sea)
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,686
Abstract expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 148 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 58.3 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$2,023
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?