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Dave Mattheus & Tim Reynolds
Alan Berry Rhys
Print - 62 x 46 x 1 cm Print - 24.4 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$261
Hilly Billy Willy Nilly I
Max Hammond
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,000
Souhait expectatif
Dominique Mulhem
Painting - 19 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,535
Alaukik saundarya (Divine beauty)
Richa Dave
Painting - 61 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Abstraction Rouge Vif pour BRANCUSI 1956 Vivid Red Abstraction for BRANCUSI
Alexandre Istrati
Painting - 28 x 23 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11 x 9.1 x 0.6 inch
$3,353 $1,677
Rostros sin rostro 8-12
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$648
Mini Chorus 1
Geoff Catlow
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 33 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 13 x 1.6 inch
$667
Druid forests 11.7
Milly Martionou
Painting - 180 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 70.9 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$31,261
Coz it was all Yellow
Merle Luhaäär
Painting - 91 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$3,410
Everywhere No. 2021004
Cheryl Johnson
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.5 inch
$5,585
J.S. Bach, Goldberg variation, Aria
Ernestine Tahedl
Painting - 165.1 x 116.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 65 x 46 x 1.8 inch
$5,141
Kitchen Indoor - Pakistan (7)
Sarah Caron
Photography - 34 x 49 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$1,478
Octopus's Garden
Joe Flaherty
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 4.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.8 inch
$3,357
The currency of sleep training gimmicks
Hilary Tait Norod
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$2,200
Abstraction sur socle
Roselyne Dupetitpré
Sculpture - 30 x 13.5 x 2 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inch
$455
Transparence Vert
Park Byung-Hoon
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$3,751
Love's got me Spinning
Kris Mercer
Painting - 119.9 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,320
Fight for a reason
Harouna Ouedraogo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,979
Spring Bouquet
Tom Alexis Robert
Sculpture - 55 x 55 x 25 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 21.7 x 9.8 inch
$2,274
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?