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Costa Daurada - Abstract seascape
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.8 inch
$1,304
Altafulla, Spain - Seascape with Sailboarder
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,966
Seascape at Sunset in Spain
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 81.3 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 32 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,852
Coucher de soleil
Christiane Papé
Painting - 63.5 x 63.5 x 1.3 cm Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.5 inch
$925
In my daydreams everything's worthwhile
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 71.1 x 142.2 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 56 x 1.2 inch
$1,500
Wide Open Green
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,680
Purple Meltdown
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,500
The Standoff (Spirits Of Skies 120144)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$1,850
Threesome (Spirits Of Skies 120117)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$1,850
Cause And Effect (Spirits Of Skies 100163)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,600
Ashes To Ashes (Spirits Of Skies 096004)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$1,180
Contraception (Spirits Of Skies 100006)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,540
Wide Open Plain I
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 162.6 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 64 x 1.2 inch
$1,960
Fragile framework II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,300
Twisting fire III (Spirits of skies 120127)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$2,000
Emotional Release XXIV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$980
Satellite (Spirits of skies 100094)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,550
Purple meltdown
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,540
New flavors at the candy store
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 71.1 x 142.2 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 56 x 1.2 inch
$1,380
Initial approach (Spirits of skies 096158)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$1,500
Emotional release XIX (Spirits ofsSkies 064160)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$980
Amazonite revealed II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,540
Determined to reach beyond
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,900
Twisting Fire VIII (Spirits Of Skies 100194)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,500
Cortez Gold Mine
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,400
Emotional Release XXV (Spirits Of Skies 064191)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$980
First Kiss (Spirits Of Skies 100183)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,500
She Likes To Dream In Pink I
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,470
The Southwest Diary
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,470
Luminous Bursts X (Spirits Of Skies 080174)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,240
Emotional Release XXI (Spirits Of Skies 064178)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 81.3 x 81.3 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 32 x 1.2 inch
$1,080
Sudden Impact II (Spirits Of Skies 100150)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,540
Spirits Of Spring (Spirits Of Skies 100182)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,540
The Dispute (Spirits Of Skies 120184)
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,670
Where desert and ocean meet
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,255
Dreaming the paradise
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,368
In depth, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 81.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 32 x 1.5 inch
$1,467
Things gradually become more intricate
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,164
Short-term change 7
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,474
Short-term change 3
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,474
Short-term change 6
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,482
The structure of rays
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,323
When the wind passes over
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$1,784
Looking for a sign
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$1,482
Again and again
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$1,232
Short-term change 5
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,474
A burst of color II
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,308
A burst of color II
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,308
Blooming peach trees
Alexandra Petropoulou
Painting - 119.9 x 69.9 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Somewhere somehow
Alexandra Petropoulou
Painting - 99.8 x 149.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.3 x 59 x 0.8 inch
$1,710
Depth of feeling
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,220
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?