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Banc de poissons #11
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$673
Live by Love
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,139
Didgeridoo
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,363 $3,027
Bingo!!!!! (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,597
Retrato Fondo Azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$990
My name is Stain
Yohan Storti
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,242 $1,682
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$650
I dream and believe (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,682 $1,564
Composition No. 413
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 100 x 71 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28 x 1.2 inch
$1,794
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,121
Et la nuit déjà scintille
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
Taylor Swift's Energy (L'Energie de Taylor Swift)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,115
Trees of colour
Linda Collins Lamb
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,148
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350 $298
The sounds of silence
Maryse Chatron Kriloff
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
The Wanderer (el andariego)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,018
Beside you in time
Isabelle Rivest
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,485
Sky is the limit 02
Poonam Choudhary
Design - 21.6 x 17.8 x 15.2 cm Design - 8.5 x 7 x 6 inch
$1,000
Enlightenment,
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 133.4 x 133.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 52.5 x 52.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,520
Baby Your A Firework
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,507
Casual Constructivism #1. From The Abstraction on Kraft Experiments Series
Almo
Painting - 95 x 65 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
L'Attente du Jour Prochain
Hugo Pondz
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$15,695
Fille aux macarons bleius
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 190.5 x 88.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 75 x 35 x 2 inch
$1,626
Marine abstraite 2024-57
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1 inch
$1,345
La souffleuse de rêves
Els Knockaert
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$975
Rouget d'origine noble dorée
Robert Combas
Painting - 46.5 x 34 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 13.4 x 1 inch
$32,512 $29,261
Citizens in Colour
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 35 x 45 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,525
Les Mannequins (The Supermodels) 2
Alawaye Tope
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,850
Ceci est une confusion
Yichao Sun
Painting - 100 x 125 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,830
Noname 70.50 #C248
Stéphane Rime
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$157
Le chat et le papillon
Vincent Bardou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,139
Bateaux de pêcheurs à Positano, avril
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,363
The Mountains Kissed By The Sun
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$370 $315
Colorful Reflections
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 75 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$750
C'est étonnant, tu crois pas
Jéko
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,345
My Kid Just Ruined My Basquiat (graf) on canvas
Ziegler T
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,009
Riflesso di luna sul mare
Davide Angelillo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$146
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?