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?
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Clara, The Dreamweaver.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,647
Sophia, The Fragmented Muse.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,647
Aria, The Geometry of Grace.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,647
Solana, The Harmony of Shapes.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Aria, The Duality of Vision.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,694
Mira, The Reflective Architect.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,921
Orina, The Harmonist of Shapes.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,658
Nova, The Compass of Imagination.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,647
Lyra, The Architect of Echoes.
Sephora Venites
Print - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Celestia, The Orbital Dreamer.
Sephora Venites
Print - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Aurora, The Geometry of Harmony.
Sephora Venites
Print - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$2,801
Solis, The Eye of Perspective.
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$2,682
Astraea, The Geometric Visionary.
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 63.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 25 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Aeliana, The Keeper of Dualities.
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$2,813
Selene, The Dreamweaver.
Sephora Venites
Print - 116.8 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Print - 46 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,933
Le baiser - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 180 x 135 x 1 cm Print - 70.9 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,503
Basquiat - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,146
Picasso - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,146
La jeune fille à la perle - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,146
Dali - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,146
Snoopy yellow Vespa
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 138 x 98 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54.3 x 38.6 x 1 inch
$5,961
Scene of the crime
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,815
Stop opening your big mouth
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,338
Incomprehensible world
Gillian Brin
Painting - 116 x 85 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 33.5 x 1.2 inch
$823
Arnaud le hérisson
Patricia Gadisseur
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$477
Little Warrior Girl
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,146
Little Warrior Boy
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,146
Cheap Originality
Youthone
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,192 $1,073
Autre Moi, Pharrell Williams portrait. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 76 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.9 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
The Garden of Vision
Sephora Venites
Print - 114.3 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Print - 45 x 34 x 0.1 inch
$2,790
Construct of Silence
Sephora Venites
Print - 116.8 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Print - 46 x 34 x 0.1 inch
$3,421
Fashion pills orange
James Chiew
Sculpture - 60 x 90 x 6 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 35.4 x 2.4 inch
$3,874
BONHEUR TUTTI FLOWERS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,490
Jazz in New Orleans
Christof Monnin
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,907
No art on a dead planet
Alain Churlaud
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
Monkey with Butterfly
Hani Badawi Leo
Painting - 98 x 98 x 3 cm Painting - 38.6 x 38.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,384
Gorilla with Butterfly
Hani Badawi Leo
Painting - 148 x 98 x 3 cm Painting - 58.3 x 38.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,623