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Underwater_1 - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Neo-Fruits - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Jelly-Fish - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Fantin-Latour - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Diesel - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 40 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Citrus_Fruits - série Liquide abstrait
Denis Morel
Print - 54 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 21.3 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$893
Mouvement bleu
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,684
Vagabondage
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$868
Tranquilité
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$868
In the distance
Christian Valentine
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,200
Eclat des magnolias - Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
Energie marémotrice - Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
L'oiseau bleu - Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 99 x 106 x 2 cm Painting - 39 x 41.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,099
Les Ecrits Oubliés
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$870
Imaginaire
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,099
Steel
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 55 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$837
Fleurs sur fond jaune indien
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 114 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,791
Antic Evolution 23012
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$870
28 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,572
Terre de printemps
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$870
Bateau à Istanbul et pêcheurs. Matin
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,349
Terre d'hiver
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$870
Quand le silence est d'or
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$201
S'7 dripping - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Dripping SFDP1 - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 80 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Abondance III
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 60 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$804
Force of nature (ii)
Nigel Forbes Moores
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,154
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,093
Symphonie colorée 1
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 20 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$580
Bleu minéral - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Bleu abstrait - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,462
Bleu écriture - série Abstraction
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,462
Music of the Countryside
Janice Toulouse
Painting - 40 x 55.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.9 x 1 inch
$558
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$380
Indian chief
Barthélémy Grossmann
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,578
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?