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Arlequin et ses convives
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,961
Drink up some Hard Cocktails
Roanne .
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$2,003
Children's afternoon
Perrine Anna Chantal
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$935
Io su poltrona pensando al lui / Me on an armchair thinking about him
Mattia Novello
Painting - 160 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 45 x 1 inch
$8,500
Séduction 1
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,942
Universe of colors
Amelie Monira Egenolf
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,167
Arlequine - Arlequins
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,157
Que du bonheur
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,433
Nos regards amoureux
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$962
Elégante aux cheveux d'or
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 140 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,413
Green Over Blue (Over Green Over Blue) Over Yellow Horizon
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Making Body Sculptures On The Field
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Abstract composition
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Double Exposure Mountain Flowers
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Mémoire du temps n°15
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$883
Fly little bird, fly
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 80 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,207
Life is a game...
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$1,811
Untitled abstract
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Aquarius
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,195
Vagabondage
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$880
Tranquilité
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$880
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$962
Autumn sunset
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$990
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,650
Green Purple Yellow
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,147
Balade printaniere
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$882
Blue Watermelon Drips
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Green Arc Over Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Untitled 1 - inspired by Miro
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Purple Arc Over Blue (Becoming Dizzy And Out Of Breath)
Simon Findlay
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Abstract - Inspired by Miro -2
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,482
Venus in 12th house
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,482
Ethereal Harmony in Apple Green and Turquoise Blue
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,241
Imaginaire
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,127
Night Fragrance XIV
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 88.9 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 47 x 2 inch
$1,713
Steel
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 55 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$849
Antic Evolution 23012
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$882
Terre de printemps
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$882
Terre d'hiver
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$882
Quand le silence est d'or
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$204
Still life with blue
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,038
Lightness of being
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,912
Cheerful cascade of summer flowers
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,912
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,124
Abondance III
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 60 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$815
Signs of Time VII
Claudia Werth
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,184
Paradise Parasite
Petra Schonova
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,967
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?