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Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$5,394
Peau de mur 19
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,719
Peau de mur 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,933
Peau de mur 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 61 x 142 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 55.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,596
Peau de mur 6
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 134 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 52.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,236
Escapade de lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,540
Trouée en lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,540
Lacher-Prise
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,247 $2,023
"Enfouissement" abstrait acrylique collage végétaux sur lin 73x60cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,686
Sunshine on My Mind
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$899
Petit arbre bleu sur fond mixte
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$775
Le vieux pot de peinture bleu - 354
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 13 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$405
Vitruvian Woman
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$14,608
Echapper - série Composition abstraite
Claire de Noinville
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$157
La vallée du silence
Khadija El Haouchi
Painting - 40 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$893
Fenêtre sur la mer 2
Jenny D'ormond
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,483
Eblouissante clarté
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,787
Si près…le soleil !
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,787
Cheveux de comète
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,787
Bicolore 20 "Purple haze "
Mr Garcia
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$135
Régate 3 série Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$169 $152
Régate 4 série Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$169
La couleur de mes envies car je t'aime
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,472
Il pleut sur Paris II
David Cumps
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,472
Window view 13 - Ardent desir
Low Bros
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$10,563
Window view 12 - Yass queen
Low Bros
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,304
Window view 10 sunday mourning
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,326
Window view 07 - Melancholia
Low Bros
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$9,664
Un Mari pas vraiment jaloux
Alix
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,584
Référence personnelle
Jean-Michel Cordier
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,584
The Language of Love 1
Laura Spring
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$320
The Language of Love 4
Laura Spring
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$330
Vertigineuse Idylle
Brice Mounier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 11 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 4.3 inch
$6,180
Domestic yellows I
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.4 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
$600
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?