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Love letters in the sand I
Ilgvars Zalans
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,349
Le réveil du printemps
Sana Hichri
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
Rain in colors
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$6,000 $5,400
Face cachée
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$308
Il pleut sur Paris II
David Cumps
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Quimper la Cathédrale
Jacques Guillet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
Cabinet des Lapins
Corine Perier
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$8,053
Conversation animée
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 46 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,566
Composition Abstraite
B. Pàlf
Painting - 79.5 x 59.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 31.3 x 23.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,579
Echoes of Contemplation
Liana Asatryan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$450
Poesia delle aqua
Pasquale Di Fazio
Painting - 80 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$10,066
It Walks Among Us
Hal Mayforth
Painting - 106.7 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 42 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Vision of peace
Zakaria Aboukhriss
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$503
L'épouvantail
Mara
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$391 $352
Banc de tournesols
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Print - 56.7 x 85 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.3 x 33.5 x 0 inch
$447
Psychedelic smile
Rémy Demestre
Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$280 $252
Il Trovatore
Giorgio de Chirico
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,431,629
La vie est belle
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$4,138
Yellow Landscape
Liliana Samulak
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,586
Art stories: Campbells
Nicolas Pichon
Sculpture - 160 x 15 x 5 cm Sculpture - 63 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,678
Landscape18
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,550
The blue one
Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,900
El sonido del agua
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,695
Landscape
Joseph Sima
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 45 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$65,654
Keep Flying
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,908
Clair-obscur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
Blue Picture (Pincers)
Mikulás Medek
Painting - 70 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$278,497
Nighty
Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec
Painting - 80 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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Myriad-RGB
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$537
Study for The Last Dance
Dennis Oppenheim
Fine Art Drawings - 101 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$11,185
Autoportrait et le bois
Carmen Selma
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,579
White Hope - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Print - 73 x 93 x 3.5 cm Print - 28.7 x 36.6 x 1.4 inch
$5,257
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?