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Flowers Little Prince
Jisbar
Painting - 150 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
The light in my mind
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 85 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,466
Brinjal Shrine. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Psychédélique village
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,242
Purple Lilac and Blue Diptych
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 95 x 190 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
$5,606
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,018
Stuck In A Loop (Again)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,130
Play & Diversity 17
Lucie Jirku
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,480
Self-Worth 2
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$3,250 $2,925
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
$4,709
A Bird out of Merlin's Ear
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,386
Pyatnitsa-Plot. Twilight
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 15 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,682
Vibrant Abstract Burst
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Herramienta en Amarillo. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Cosmic World_Lights#22
Tadas Zaicikas
Painting - 84 x 112 x 0.01 cm Painting - 33.1 x 44.1 x 0 inch
$11,211
Au bord de l'eau
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$673
Natural Flow Series n13. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 68.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
The dance of a star
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,233
Drôle d'animal (1)
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,221
Poetic Resilience
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
$3,900
Spring sunset #3
Laura Dujoncquoy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,682 $1,513
Fragmentation
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$639
Asia lithographie originale, édition limitée
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,009
Colors of Nature's Palette
Maya Green
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$2,400
L'instant majorelle IV
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$762
Lab #10 Painting. From the Lab series
Alec Franco
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$750
Abstract Floral Field
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$750
Blue pines - Loving trees N°3
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$858
Silence, on tourne
Sabine Louriac
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$561
Saturación, Luminosidad & Destornillador. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Sculpture - 129.8 x 25.9 x 19.8 cm Sculpture - 51.1 x 10.2 x 7.8 inch
$1,900
Stylish woman with red lips
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Vista Ruscello
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,579
Window view 11 - Wipe left
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$9,641
Saint Michel Terrassant le dragon
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 49.7 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.6 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,161
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?