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Dead Flowers In A Water Jug 4
Simon Findlay
Painting - 20 x 15 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$277
Krikkoins - Le gourmand
Klaus Rune
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,628
L'arbre de la connaissance et de l'immortalité
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 155 x 243 cm Painting - 61 x 95.7 inch
$14,384
Tour Eiffel culturelle
Stéphane Cantin
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$310
The Three, Mind, Body, Soul
Tsoku Maela
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,877
Fierce Fabrication 1
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 113 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44.5 x 1 inch
$2,800
Ils se reconnaîtront
Olivier Toma
Painting - 90 x 79 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,519
Peindre c’est arrêter le temps et figer l’instant présent ! Quelle chance
Olivier Toma
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,519
Yellow abstract roses
Vahe Bagumyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$450
Into The Void 02
Angelica Tcherassi
Print - 149.9 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 59 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
"Enfouissement" abstrait acrylique collage végétaux sur lin 73x60cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,660
Fickle Memory 07
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$885
Arcana 14
Monika Bravo
Photography - 101.6 x 274.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Arcana 13
Monika Bravo
Photography - 101.6 x 274.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Arcana 12
Monika Bravo
Photography - 101.6 x 274.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Shadok La vie chante
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 38 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$1,051
Arcana 11
Monika Bravo
Photography - 101.6 x 274.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Arcana 10
Monika Bravo
Photography - 101.6 x 274.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,852
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (2)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$254
Lavandes sous le mont ventoux (1)
ZiB
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$254
Pomegranate and Melodies
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$150
Suisse : Neige d'Automne
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,881
Where the dreamers hide
Etienne Quesnay
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$1,770
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,279
Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,607
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,275
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,607
Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,607
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,607
Bouteilles et orange
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$819
Cool, fun et miaooo
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$586
Peau de mur 19
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,647
Peau de mur 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,873
Peau de mur 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 61 x 142 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 55.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,541
Peau de mur 6
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 134 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 52.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,156
Escapade de lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,501
Trouée en lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,501
Cool, Vive les fleurs et le skate
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$719
Tertulia
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,810
Méduses bleues
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$443
Méduses et visage
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$443
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?