Colored artworks

Color plays a fundamental role in contemporary creation as an element capable on its own of structuring a composition, generating emotion, or conveying an entire aesthetic discourse.

Long relegated to a secondary role behind form and drawing in the traditional hierarchy of the arts, it gradually gained autonomy throughout the twentieth century from Fauvist explorations of pure color to lyrical abstraction until it became, for some artists, the sole subject of the artwork.

Henri Matisse, whose cut-out paper works celebrate color in all its power and simplicity, Mark Rothko with his meditative fields of color, or the Op Art artists who explore optical vibrations between complementary hues, illustrate the diversity of approaches within a field that continues to fascinate contemporary artists.

In current artistic practice, color is explored through a wide range of registers—from vivid, saturated Pop Art–inspired palettes to subtle tonal variations and delicate gradients, as well as strong chromatic contrasts that structure pictorial or sculptural space. Whether applied in flat areas, layered glazes, bursts of material, or plays of light on reflective surfaces, color becomes a language in its own right, capable of expressing emotions such as joy, melancholy, energy, or contemplation.

On Artsper, this selection brings together works in which color plays a central role in composition, highlighting the enduring capacity of this fundamental element to generate visual experiences of inexhaustible richness and intensity.

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Painting, Afterglow, Chouette Nia

Chouette Nia

Painting . 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€1,600

Painting, Landscape, Mitko Dimitrov

Mitko Dimitrov

Painting . 64.5 x 37 x 2 cm Painting . 25.4 x 14.6 x 0.8 inch

€520

Painting, Better world, Peter Max

Peter Max

Painting . 121.92 x 60.96 x 2.54 cm Painting . 48 x 24 x 1 inch

€91,428

Painting, Parasols bleus, Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan

Painting . 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€9,000

Painting, Paysage 6, Fabien Delaube

Fabien Delaube

Painting . 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€1,100 €1,045

Painting, Itinérance, Elena Feteanu

Elena Feteanu

Painting . 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€900

Painting, Ecstasy, Dostena Lavergne

Dostena Lavergne

Painting . 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch

€3,450

Painting, Lotus 4, Zhongnan Chen

Zhongnan Chen

Painting . 136 x 35 x 1 cm Painting . 53.5 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch

€1,200

Painting, Claim 137, Mark Hellbusch

Mark Hellbusch

Painting . 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€850

Print, Sky, Chiho Aoshima

Sky

Chiho Aoshima

Print . 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Print . 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch

€950

Painting, Suspension, Victoria Horkan

Victoria Horkan

Painting . 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

€3,862

Painting, Afterglow, Angela Wakefield

Angela Wakefield

Painting . 12.7 x 17.8 x 0 cm Painting . 5 x 7 x 0.01 inch

€1,177

Print, Bidea, Laura Nieto

Laura Nieto

Print . 34.2 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Print . 13.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch

€695

Print, Car, Morten Schelde

Car

Morten Schelde

Print . 77.5 x 57.5 cm Print . 30.5 x 22.6 inch

€500

Painting, Where day rests, Rob Tucker

Rob Tucker

Painting . 140 x 160 x 1 cm Painting . 55.1 x 63 x 0.4 inch

€16,000

Painting, Winter Greys, Nikki Wheeler

Nikki Wheeler

Painting . 73.7 x 75.9 x 1.5 cm Painting . 29 x 29.9 x 0.6 inch

€1,645

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