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Cœur de dragon
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$774
La Course
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,436
Saint Michel Terrassant le dragon
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 49.7 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.6 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,138
Le silence se fait, il n’y a plus de bruit
Cécile Trousse
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,099
The child (a tribute to Haring)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$100
Victoria horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,448
A Pulp Fiction pop art tribute
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,497
Trois coups de rouge
Pierre Alechinsky
Painting - 34 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$12,341
A bold expectation
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,571
Pure Happiness II
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,029
Faut toujours garder un oeil sur le gosse
MCF
Painting - 80 x 56 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 22 x 0.4 inch
$1,066
L'atelier du printemps
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,804
I Don’t Think I Can Resist The Madness Anymore
Simon Findlay
Painting - 20 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$280
Vase with pink roses
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$841
Quinacridone Magenta
Mineko Yoshida
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$1,020
Peinture 11-2023-66
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$785
Peinture 10-2020-100
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,907
Marine abstraite 55
Fred Boutet
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,346
En attendant la vague
Jean-Philippe Berger
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$393
Keep Smiling (Gardez le Sourire)
Bruno Cantais
Print - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$505 $252
Floral Expression
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Voyage au fil du temps
Sylvie Gedda
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,526
Red experimentel reserach
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$14,024
Blue experimental research
James Chiew
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$14,024
Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Spring Love
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.8 inch
$2,345
Abstract express
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 78.7 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31 x 40 x 2 inch
$1,793
Big bang sur papier 18
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$471
Big bang sur papier 19
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$471
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?