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![Painting, Sea life 1, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1962645_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban Perspective / Complex City Final, Papa Mesk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1845831_1_grid.jpg)
Urban Perspective / Complex City Final
Papa Mesk
Painting - 70 x 127 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 50 x 1.6 inch
$16,817
![Painting, Broadway, Cope2](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1790187_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 9, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 7, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777695_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 6, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777692_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 5, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777686_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 3, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777680_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Diagram Drawing 2, Tom McGlynn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777668_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Couleurs festives, Pierre Lamblin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1750089_1_grid.jpg)
Couleurs festives
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,242
![Painting, Couleurs festives (2), Pierre Lamblin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1735200_1_grid.jpg)
Couleurs festives (2)
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,242
![Painting, Untitled 11, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572258_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 10, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572252_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 9, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572237_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 8, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 7, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572231_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 6, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 5, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572222_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 4, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572216_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 3, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572213_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Doïna Vieru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572198_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marcel Toujours, JonOne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1553904_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sea Life 2, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525878_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Mauro Bellucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1518318_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dance With Me, George Pinder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jump Man, George Pinder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417629_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We Sippin, George Pinder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417608_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking The City, George Pinder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417602_1_grid.jpg)
Walking The City
George Pinder
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3.8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$4,204
![Painting, Blue Landscape, Lilly Lillà](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417461_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Growing up in circles, Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417173_1_grid.jpg)
Growing up in circles
Nick Warren
Painting - 101 x 101 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 39.8 x 1.4 inch
$2,892
![Painting, Find your boulder once again, Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417122_1_grid.jpg)
Find your boulder once again
Nick Warren
Painting - 121 x 91 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.6 x 35.8 x 1.4 inch
$2,522
![Painting, Saturated in Blue, Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417116_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, There's none left in the draw..., Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417107_1_grid.jpg)
There's none left in the draw...
Nick Warren
Painting - 101.2 x 76 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 1.4 inch
$2,522
![Painting, Wake Up, Nick Warren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417104_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues and Reds 19, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307916_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues and Reds 17, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307907_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues and Reds 16, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307904_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues and Reds 14, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307898_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues and Reds 13, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307895_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The joker, Art By Son](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295757_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Awaken your heart, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1275816_1_grid.jpg)
Awaken your heart
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$780
![Sculpture, Love Army, Shelby](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1275219_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 1, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1261941_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Modely Thibaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1187118_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait No.9 Bullfighter, Renjie Gao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1178472_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait No.9 Bullfighter
Renjie Gao
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,121
![Painting, Portrait No.4, Renjie Gao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1178466_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait No.3, Renjie Gao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1178463_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract No 20, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1174401_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract No 18, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1174392_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bleu III, Yichao Sun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1169145_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bleu I, Yichao Sun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1168641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La confiance, Meriame Louattani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1161540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Yellow Diptych, Diptyque Jaune, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1161159_1_grid.jpg)
Yellow Diptych, Diptyque Jaune
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$336
![Painting, Abstract No. 14 - Abstrait No 14, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1141848_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract No. 14 - Abstrait No 14
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$336
![Painting, Abstract No. 12 - Abstrait No 12, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1141461_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract No. 12 - Abstrait No 12
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
$336
![Painting, La Quercy, Janice Toulouse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1127526_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ink #4, Emily Berger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106853_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ink #5, Emily Berger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106850_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ink #8, Emily Berger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106844_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Mauro Bellucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1074486_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Mauro Bellucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1074447_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tour de Manège #2 - Archi-Lines Series, Anna Levesh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029456_1_grid.jpg)
Tour de Manège #2 - Archi-Lines Series
Anna Levesh
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$886
![Photography, Washing lines, Barry Cawston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/919926_1_grid.jpg)
Washing lines
Barry Cawston
Photography - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,115
![Painting, Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque, Julie Ruelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198771_1_grid.jpg)
Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,969
![Painting, Nanas, Pepita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174527_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Monarch, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173605_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cage / Sans titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172778_1_grid.jpg)
Cage / Sans titre
Meteo Meteo
Painting - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$729 $364
![Painting, Cage / Sans titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172777_1_grid.jpg)
Cage / Sans titre
Meteo Meteo
Painting - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$729 $364
![Painting, Rise Up, JonOne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171934_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shodoshima Sunset, Leandro Frutos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171676_1_grid.jpg)
Shodoshima Sunset
Leandro Frutos
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$555
![Photography, New Era Colors, Leandro Frutos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171647_1_grid.jpg)
New Era Colors
Leandro Frutos
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$600
![Painting, Heart-IV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161727_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Odds and Ends, Ludovic Dervillez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158161_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pour toi mon Amour, Sophie Petetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151623_1_grid.jpg)
Pour toi mon Amour
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,626
![Painting, Kimi, Perrotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151149_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cadeaux du ciel, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150180_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sheep, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140034_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 2310, Fieroza Doorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138067_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 2304, Fieroza Doorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138064_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tagadabstract, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129026_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paris vitry abstract, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125152_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Visual perfection, Nick Vivian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119185_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Watch In Awe As It Unfolds, Nick Vivian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119155_1_grid.jpg)
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
$2,784
![Painting, Where desert and ocean meet, Andrada Anghel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2026290_1_grid.jpg)
Where desert and ocean meet
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,255
![Painting, Dreaming the paradise, Andrada Anghel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2026281_1_grid.jpg)
Dreaming the paradise
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,368
![Painting, The structure of rays, Andrada Anghel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2026176_1_grid.jpg)
The structure of rays
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,323
![Painting, Sheep, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999083_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sheep, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999074_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Happy Horn, Yoko d'Holbachie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1957893_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bunny Antenna, Yoko d'Holbachie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1957890_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tagadabstract, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1953936_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Threat, Tekla Aleksieva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940115_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tampesta, Tekla Aleksieva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940112_1_grid.jpg)
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?