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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, Life in Color, Jacob Burda

Life in Color

Jacob Burda

Painting . 127 x 152 x 2 cm Painting . 50 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch

€5,000

Painting, Meadown, Nadin Antoniuk

Meadown

Nadin Antoniuk

Painting . 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€1,800

Painting, Calmness, Mariam Baidoshvili

Calmness

Mariam Baidoshvili

Painting . 42 x 40 x 1 cm Painting . 16.5 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

€2,000

Painting, Lotus, Cécile Girard

Lotus

Cécile Girard

Painting . 43 x 43 x 1 cm Painting . 16.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch

€800

Painting, Le bassin, Eurgal

Le bassin

Eurgal

Painting . 60 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting . 23.6 x 28.7 x 1 inch

€2,450

Painting, Starry Night, Laura Spring

Starry Night

Laura Spring

Painting . 94 x 88.9 x 0.3 cm Painting . 37 x 35 x 0.1 inch

€1,084

Photography, El Campo 3, Ian Jones

El Campo 3

Ian Jones

Photography . 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch

€850

Painting, Sunrise, Tigran Mamikonyan

Sunrise

Tigran Mamikonyan

Painting . 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch

€1,897

Photography, Waterworld 14, Andrew Lever

Waterworld 14

Andrew Lever

Photography . 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography . 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch

€956

Painting, Bright Landscape, Irina Anis

Bright Landscape

Irina Anis

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

€1,700