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Hana11_F72
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,054
Hana02_2458
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 42.5 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,054
Hana16_F5010
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$1,054
Gypsy Skirt Rounded in Amsterdam 2
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,110 $832
Éclosions Géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$10,545
Eclosions géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$10,545
Spirit of Forest 47560
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 29.3 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.5 x 14 x 0 inch
$1,776
Éclosions géométriques
Arthur Dorval
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$10,545
Io di notte io di giorno
Mattia Novello
Painting - 279.4 x 416.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 110 x 164 x 2 inch
$17,000
Complimentary Connection
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,960
Happiness # - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Fiat 500 | 80th Birthday in 2024
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 67 x 150 x 15 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 59.1 x 5.9 inch
$10,545
Graffiti heartist XL
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 120 x 116 x 15 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 45.7 x 5.9 inch
$14,985
Cadmium Orange Hue
Julia Swaby
Painting - 81 x 113 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 44.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,663
Autumn sunset
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$990
Dont give up No.2
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
My Home and my Heart No.3
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,690
Fate does not ask you
Jacqueline Dey
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$495
Popeye got the power
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 98 x 98 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.6 x 38.6 x 1 inch
$4,995
Bugs Bunny Chupa Chups
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 70 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$2,664
Stereotypes. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 48.3 x 36.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19 x 14.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Emotion in motion
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 100 x 74 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,665
Snoopy - I Love My Job (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,775
Untitled n°602 Abstract October 19 with Black
Harry James Moody
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$5,217
Lightness of being
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,876
Cheerful cascade of summer flowers
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,876
Wanna have some fun?
Krista Prayat Korjus
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,760
Mowgli & Bagheera (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,775 $2,497
Félix (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 55 x 83 x 0.2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,775
Cry for the sun over the world
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,142
Does My Happiness Upset you ?!
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,775
Floral - Elixir series on paper III
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,698
Floral Elixir series on paper II
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,698
Floral Elixir series on paper I
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,698
Red Candle In The Dark
Roanne .
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$1,787
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?