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For the Time Being II
Gayle Fitzpatrick
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,385
Time Doesn't Heal. People Do
Ellen Brook
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,700
Take Me Out of the Blue and Beyond
Ellen Brook
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,370
Take Me Out of the Blue, Dear
Ellen Brook
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,370
Coucher de soleil
Christiane Papé
Painting - 63.5 x 63.5 x 1.3 cm Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.5 inch
$925
377 Around the world
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
380 Above the sea
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
381 going for a spin
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
382 coming from space
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
383 hidden gems l
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
384 hidden gems ll
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
385 Piazza di Spagna
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
386 Above the Arno River
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
387 Crossing the Arno River
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
Wild Delight
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 70.1 x 4.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.8 inch
$1,485
Wintermärchen
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$1,676
Delicate Strength
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$943
Going with the Flow
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$943
The Pulse of Life
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,166
Out of the Blue
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,310
Dance of Possibilities
Angela Dierks
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,310
Floating With You
Angela Dierks
Painting - 75.9 x 75.9 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,310
On a rainy day in my garden
Angela Dierks
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,755
The moment I wake up
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,825
Varangeville - Cote normande
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$216
S'auras tu vivre le plus mauvais (Diptyque)
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,842
Cypres - Campagne provençale I
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$216
Campagne normande (Les Andelys)
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$216
Contextual splinters #11
Christian Culver
Painting - 45.7 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 8 x 0.1 inch
$1,550
Take Me Out of the Blue #12
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
$915
Take Me Out of the Blue (10)
Ellen Brook
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
$925
Brilliant blue water
Silvia Vassileva
Painting - 66 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 26 x 26 x 1 inch
$1,140
Reconnecting with your inner self
Selene Art
Painting - 49.8 x 174.8 x 3.6 cm Painting - 19.6 x 68.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,285
Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christel Haag
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$820
Prayer from a child
Xiaoyang Galas
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 4.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,260
Better mercutio 9
Robert Langley
Painting - 182.9 x 147.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 72 x 58 x 0.1 inch
$800
Home Again, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
June Johnson
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$850
Farbiges Spiel mit Blumen
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,275
Village d'enfance
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,023
Noche y día / Night and Day
Luis Prada
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Printemps à Giverny
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,478
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?